Bodman attorney elected to DMBA Board of Directors
Michelle A. Carter, a partner in Bodman LLP’s Troy office, has been elected to a three year term on the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association’s Board of Directors.
The Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association (DMBA), the oldest bar association in Michigan, is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of judges, attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the metropolitan Detroit region of Southeast Michigan. The purpose of the DMBA is to create a forum that allows lawyers and judges to improve the administration and quality of justice in their community through education, dialogue, and community activities.
Carter also serves as 2009-2010 President of the Wolverine Bar Association.
She focuses her legal practice in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, contract matters, real property matters and construction matters.
Carter also has experience with labor and employment law, employment litigation and employment counseling. She is recognized as a Rising Star in Michigan Super Lawyers under Business Litigation. Before joining Bodman, Carter clerked for Hon. Theodore Z. Davis, presiding judge of the General Equity Division for the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Federal Bar dinner will honor judicial officers
The Federal Bar Association Eastern District Michigan Chapter will host its 31st annual dinner honoring the judicial officers of the Eastern District Thursday, June 24, at The Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit.
A cocktail reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by A (Habeas) Chorus Line.
Tickets are $80 per person or $800 for a table of ten.
Reservations are requested by Wednesday, June 16. Direct inquiries to Sandy Bera at (248) 267-3345 or bera@millercanfield.com. Register online at www.fbamich.org.
FBA Summer Associate Law Clerk Program
The Eastern District of Michigan Chapter cordially invites summer associates and law clerks to the eighth-annual FBA Summer Associate/Law Clerk program.
In order to accommodate the U.S. district judges and FBA members who would like to spend time with summer associates and law clerks before they head back to school, the chapter will sponsor a brief and succinct program on July 1 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in room 115 of the Levin Courthouse in Detroit.
Judges George Caram Steeh and Avern Cohn are scheduled to speak at the event.
In addition to meeting members of the local federal judiciary, summer associates/law clerks will be provided practical suggestions that will serve them as future lawyers.
RSVP by June 28 by registering online (http://bit.ly/aL0XsO) or dropping a note to Brian Figot at fbamich@fbamich.org to let him know the names of your summer associates and/or clerks who will attend.
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