Bar Association to hold golf outing on Aug. 15
The Wayne County Criminal Defense Bar Association will hold its Second Annual Golf Outing on Friday, Aug. 15 at the Warren Valley Golf Club in Dearborn Heights.
The 9-hole outing will feature a scramble format and will begin at 2 p.m. The cost for 9 holes of golf, cart, and dinner is $75. Those not playing golf can purchase “dinner only” tickets for $30. Dinner will begin shortly after completion of the golfing.
Foursomes are invited or the WCCDBA will arrange foursomes. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Motor City Blight Busters. Door prizes will be awarded during the dinner festivities.
For further information, contact WCCDBA President Susan Reed at (313) 468-0990, Bill Winters at (313)510-3316, or Christopher Blount at (313) 623-5744.
LAD to conduct free outreach clinic for COTS residents
DETROIT - Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc. (LAD) will conduct a free outreach clinic on civil legal services for residents of the Coalition On Temporary Shelter (COTS), 26 Peterboro St., on Wednesday, Aug. 27 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Attendees are asked to register before 10 a.m., as a LAD attorney will assist only those persons who have done so by that time.
Panel discussion to be held Sept. 9 on ‘Money in Judicial Politics’
Three former Michigan Supreme Court Justices, Honorable Marilyn J. Kelly (retired, Wayne Faculty); James L. Ryan (retired, also a former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit); Clifford Taylor (retired); and renowned reporter Peter Overby of NPR, all explore the First Amendment contours of money as speech. The free event will be on Sept. 9 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Law School Building, Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium, 471 W. Palmer in Detroit. For more information about this event, contact John P. Jacobs at 313-965-1900 or jpj@jacobsdiemer.com.
The Fellows of the ABF to honor lawyer at ABA annual meeting Aug. 8
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation will present Life Fellow William T. Coleman, Jr., with the Distinguished Fellow Award on Aug. 8 at The Fellows Opening Reception in Boston. Coleman was the first African American Secretary of Transportation and a 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
A 1946 Harvard Law School graduate, William T. Coleman, Jr., became the U.S. Supreme Court’s first black law clerk and contributed to many seminal civil rights cases, including Brown v. Board of Education. He served as Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford before joining the Los Angeles law firm of O’Melveny and Myers. In 1995, President Bill Clinton awarded Coleman the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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