Daily Briefs

 Sports agent to speak at Cooley

The Eighth Annual Howard Soifer Memorial Lecture in Sports and Entertainment Law will feature guest speaker Kevin Poston, president and CEO of Detroit-area based DEAL Elite Athletic Management.  

Poston, a graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, represents numerous professional NFL players. He prides himself on helping clients become financially secure in the short and long term by developing them as role models, businessmen and philanthropists. In addition to this work, Poston teaches law at Wayne State University. 
 
Soifer was passionate about the law, sports and his family and was grateful for his legal education at Cooley. His family, friends and partners have endowed the lecture series in his memory. 

The event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 2 at noon in the Cooley Center Lobby on the school’s Lansing campus. 

Those interested in attending must RSVP by September 30 to Pamela Heos at 517-371-5140 x. 2014 or at heosp@cooley.edu.
 

 

Judge nixes idea of newspaper ads in cancer doctor case 

DETROIT (AP) — The government can't use newspaper ads to reach out to people who may have been treated by an Oakland County cancer doctor charged with fraud.
 
Detroit federal Judge Paul Borman says the legal notices could poison the pool of potential jurors against Dr. Farid Fata. The judge says there are other ways of reaching patients.

Fata is accused of misdiagnosing patients and ordering unnecessary treatments to enrich himself through Medicare and other insurance programs. The government says some patients were repeatedly exposed to powerful drugs despite having no cancer. Fata denies it.

Fata is returning to court Wednesday to try to get his $9 million bond reduced to $500,000. He's been in jail since August. The government opposes his release.
 
 

Law firm to hold tax symposium

 
Southfield-based law firm Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller P.C. will host its 22nd Annual Tax Symposium at the Sheraton Detroit-Novi Hotel (21111 Haggerty Road, Novi) on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The program, attended by tax professionals, including certified public accountants, will include a series of presentations made by firm attorneys.  The broad range of topics include: 
 
• Permanent Estate/Gift Tax Laws: Oxymoronic?

• The End of DOMA – Forget Constitutional Rights!  What Does This Do to the Tax System?

• Shareholder Control Agreements and Rights of Minority Shareholders

• What Do We Do Now?  Health Care Reform in 2014
• Qualified Retirement Plan Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions

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