Oakland Region WBA to hold annual dinner
The Oakland Region of the Women’s Bar Association will hold its annual dinner on Thursday, May 14 at the Birmingham Athletic Club, 4033 W. Maple Rd.
The cocktail hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the dinner and awards ceremony to follow at 6:30. Tickets are $65 for members and $75 for non-members, while the cost for students and first year lawyers is $55.
The incoming executive board will include: President Channelle Kizy-White, Immediate Past President Ryan Kelly, President-elect Kristen Pursley, Vice President Erin Morgan Klug, Treasurer Andrea Symbal, Recording Secretary Samantha Orvis, Communications Secretary Melissa Atherton, and WLAM Representative Tanya Lundberg.
Elizabeth Jolliffe, of Your Benchmark Coach, will be honored with the Evelyn Forrest Distinguished Advocate Award. Oakland County Circuit Judge Colleen O’Brien will receive the Judge Recognition Award at the annual dinner.
Appeals court says unpaid lawyers for Chad Curtis may quit
HASTINGS, Mich. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has reversed a judge’s order that forced unpaid attorneys to continue to represent former Major League Baseball player Chad Curtis.
Curtis is in prison for sexual misconduct with teenage girls in western Michigan. He said he didn’t intend to pay his attorneys and would represent himself in a civil lawsuit.
The Grand Rapids Press reports attorneys for Warner Norcross & Judd LLP asked to withdraw, but U.S. District Court Judge Janet Neff ordered them to continue representing Curtis. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said that wasn’t proper.
Girls at Lakewood High School said Curtis touched them inappropriately while he was a volunteer. Curtis denies the allegations but declined to testify at trial.
Lawmakers push bills to compensate wrongfully convicted
LANSING (AP) — A bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers announced last Thursday a renewed effort to pass a measure that would provide compensation for people wrongfully convicted of and imprisoned for crimes.
The Senate bill’s sponsor, Warren Democrat Steve Bieda, has been introducing similar legislation since 2005, when he served in the House. His legislation would provide $60,000 in reimbursement for each year of wrongful imprisonment and cover economic damages such as lost wages, attorney fees and medical expenses after release that are related to being imprisoned. Anyone wrongly convicted and imprisoned would have to bring a complaint against the state to receive reimbursement.
Felons receive services from the state such as assistance with job training, housing and other re-entry programs that exonerated people cannot receive, even though they never committed a crime and face the same difficulties entering back into society, Bieda said.
He estimated the legislation could initially cost the state around $2 million if approved.
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