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  • Stark’s Courthouse College Civility, connection, and the work of the mediator

    June 11, 2026

    In a recent webinar presentation on behalf of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Michigan, retired mediator Sheldon “Shel” Stark distilled a half-century in and around Michigan courtrooms and mediation conference rooms into a single, critical proposition: the mediator’s most important work is to make the people in the room feel heard. 

  • In Memoriam: Roberta Gubbins

    June 11, 2026

    Retired attorney Roberta Mary Gubbins, JD, age 89, died Dec. 13, 2025, in Holt. She was born January 26, 1936, in Marshall, to Robert and Mary “Madelon” Gubbins. 

  • Cooley Law grad aims for a career in criminal justice

    June 11, 2026


    After a long and interesting career, Aimee Lorencz achieved her dream of attending law school, graduating from Cooley Law School this spring—with an equally long and interesting string of achievements, including receiving the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award at the spring honors convocation. 

  • New speed limit hopes to turn heads in the Badger State

    June 11, 2026

    Every now and then you hear about an old law still in the books that isn’t enforced because it takes more effort to legally repeal the law than it does to simply ignore it. 

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