Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss attorney honored with OCBA Community Service Award
Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss attorney James Parks was awarded the coveted Leon Hubbard Community Service Award by the Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA) at the organization’s Taste of Diversity event that was held at the Great Lakes Culinary Center on October 17.
The Leon Hubbard Community Service Award was created by the (OCBA) in 1994 to celebrate and promote an awareness of the rich cultural diversity of Oakland County by recognizing and honoring an individual that has a record of community service, has promoted cultural diversity, advanced social equality and worked to enhance the quality of life for all people.
Serving as OCBA President in 2018, Parks committed to exploring meaningful avenues to promote diversity in the legal community at large. One of his many efforts was bringing together a deep and diverse group of influencers to discuss obstacles and opportunities with regards to inclusion. The highly curated and thoughtful event led to a purposeful and actionable plan for how the OCBA will lead, engage and empower going forward.
Parks is a member of Jaffe’s Litigation and Employment & Labor Groups His national practice includes complex litigation, traditional labor and employment law. He has vast experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and a certified mediator.
Washtenaw County Trial Court offers e-filing for domestic, civil and name change cases
In 2017, the Washtenaw County Trial Court in downtown Ann Arbor was selected as the model Circuit Court for e-filing. For over a year, staff members have been working with the SCAO and the e-filing vendor, ImageSoft, developing the following Circuit Court case types for e-filing: domestic, civil and name changes.
Chief Judge Carol Kuhnke and Court Administrator Dan Dwyer spearheaded the project; and Court IT Systems Specialist Gina Strychar, Clerk Supervisor Lindsay Ryan and Meg Ivey, Deputy Trial Court Administrator for Court Services and IT, were tasked to implement e-filing. Together, the team worked on making sure all case types could be e-filed from case initiation through case completion.
The court went live with e-filing on Oct. 25 with more than 700 filings and case contact requests filed in the first day.
“The implementation of e-filing in our Court is a dramatic customer service improvement,” Dwyer said.
The goal of the Washtenaw County Trial Court is to go live with Probate, Juvenile, Criminal and Adoption case types as soon as possible.
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