Bodman, Wayne Law announce strategic partnership

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Photo 1: Leaders from Wayne State University Law School and Bodman PLC came together Thursday, Jan. 29, to celebrate a strategic partnership. From left are Bodman Chairman Ralph McDowell; Assistant (Clinical) Professor Eric Williams, director of Wayne Law’s Program for Entrepreneurship and Business Law and Business and Community Law Clinic; Wayne Law Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lance Gable; Wayne Law Dean Jocelyn Benson; David Hempstead, member of Bodman, Wayne Law class of 1975 and law school co-chair for Wayne State University’s Pivotal Moments campaign; Bodman member Jonathan Burleigh; and Bodman staff attorney Apollo Upshaw, Wayne Law class of 2014.
 

Photo 2: Bodman staff attorney Apollo Upshaw, left, talks with Wayne Alumni Law Group associate Rula Aoun. Both are 2014 graduates of Wayne Law.

Bodman PLC and Wayne State University Law School announced and celebrated a new strategic partnership Jan. 29, at Bodman's offices in Detroit.

The partnership will focus on developing new and aspiring attorneys, building ties within the community and supporting the resurgence of business in Detroit.

Through the partnership, Bodman attorneys provide their time and talents on a pro-bono basis to mentor students and review the work of student attorneys in the law school's Business and Community Law Clinic. In addition, Bodman attorneys will mentor Wayne Alumni Law Group associates in their development as new attorneys and provide discounted legal services to law group clients who cannot afford full card rate legal services or who are actively working to relocate functions or initiate services in Detroit.

The Wayne Alumni Law Group is a newly formed nonprofit business, strategy and legal services firm established by Wayne Law's Program for Entrepreneurship and Business Law. The nonprofit firm leverages the apprenticeship model of training new attorneys and will serve as an incubator for fledgling businesses developing in and relocating to Detroit. Attorneys from Bodman worked pro bono with Wayne Law to establish the incubator firm.

Published: Thu, Feb 05, 2015

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