Panel to discuss women’s health and the racial disparities
The National Association of Women Judges, the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, and WLAM Wayne region will present an interactive discussion regarding women’s health and the racial disparities within the healthcare system on Thursday, October 22, from 5:30 to 7 p.m."
A panel discussion, moderated by Wayne County Circuit Court Executive Court Administrator Zenell Brown will be followed by a Q&A and time for attendees to share their personal experiences.
Panelists will include:
• Dr. Amy Cortis, pediatric emergency medicine physician in Detroit
• Michelle Tidjani, general counsel at Henry Ford Health System
• Emily Thomas, plaintiff’s attorney practicing in birth trauma litigation
• Mary Placido, nurse practitioner at Beaumont Wayne
To register for this online event, visit www.womenlawyers.org www.womenlawyers.org and click on “events.”
Patent judge to speak at MIPLA online luncheon Oct. 20
The Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA) will host a virtual luncheon meeting on Tuesday, October 20, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom,
Attendees will hear from USPTO Administrative Patent Judge David McKone, who will be speaking about his experience on the USPTO Patent Trial & Appeal Board, and about how COVID-19 has affected PTAB hearings.
MIPLA encourages attendees to join early at noon for 15 minutes of marketing through Zoom breakout rooms. The substantive program will follow at 12:15 p.m..
Those interested in attending should email Andrea Arndt at AArndt@dickinsonwright.com by October 19 and Andrea will send a link to the meeting a few hours before the meeting starts.
For additional information, visit visit http://mipla.org.
New homeless court program to launch in Genesee County
A virtual press conference will be held on Monday, Oct. 12 to launch the Flint Genesee Homeless Court Program. The American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty provided guidance, training and technical support to help bring about the first homeless court in Flint.
Homeless Court Programs help people experiencing homelessness resolve low-level misdemeanor offenses, traffic fines and warrants to remove legal barriers to housing and self-sufficiency.
The press conference, organized by the Center for Civil Justice in Flint, will include remarks from Steve Binder, deputy public defender, co-founder of the Homeless Court Program at the Office of the Public Defender in the County of San Diego and special adviser to the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, and Jayesh Patel, chair of the commission and president and managing attorney of Street Democracy in Detroit, where he serves as lead counsel for the Street Outreach Court Project.
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