Daily Briefs

 Disability Attorneys of Michigan adopt kids for holiday gift giving

On Friday, Dec. 20, Disability Attorneys of Michigan is partnering with The 313 Project to help provide a Christmas to more than 45 children in need. This year marks the 3rd year Disability Attorneys of Michigan has participated in adopt-a-child holiday efforts, providing clothes and toys to more than 100 children. Each child will receive a winter jacket, an outfit, shoes, hat, gloves, and a toy. Disability Attorneys of Michigan will also provide food and craft projects for the families to do together with our volunteers.  These families receive services through Latino Family Services, Inc. (LFS). LFS was founded in 1971 in Southwest Detroit primarily to empower the Latino Community, growing to include children, at-risk teenagers, and senior citizens of multi-cultural backgrounds. LFS’ clothing and food pantries alone service over 600 families from the Metro-Detroit area each month. LFS also offers a substance abuse clinic that treats patients referred by the City of Detroit and the 26th District Court.  

For more information about the adopt-a-child program, including how to become a sponsor, please contact us at 586.596.4083 or erika@damichigan.com. 
 
 

‘Selfie' is on the record at state Supreme Court 

 
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The word “selfie” is spoken even at the Michigan Supreme Court.
 
Selfie refers to someone who takes their own picture, usually with a smartphone. Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. used the word Wednesday when talking about a Detroit-area judge who took a picture of his fit, shirtless frame and sent it to a female sheriff’s deputy.

Justice Bridget McCormack jumped in and said, “I want the record to reflect that the chief justice just used the word ‘selfie.’’’

Young, a conservative, bow-tied justice, says it shows that he's in tune with today's culture.

Britain’s Oxford University Press recently declared “selfie” the word of the year. It publishes Oxford dictionaries.
 


New online entry form available for 2014 ABA Silver Gavel Awards

 
For the first time, the American Bar Association will accept entry forms for the Silver Gavel Awards online. The deadline for 2014 award submissions is Jan. 7. 
 
This award recognizes the outstanding work of professionals in the media and the arts that fosters the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system. This is the ABA’s highest honor in recognition of this purpose and only one Silver Gavel is presented in each category. 

Complete the entry form online. Entries must have been originally published, produced or presented in 2013. There is no limit on the number of entries that may be submitted; however, a particular entry can only be submitted in one category. Depending on the category, a hard-copy or mail-in submission may be required. The eligible categories are books, magazines, newspapers, commentary, drama and literature, documentaries, television, radio and other media. Guidelines for the award are available online. 

To learn more about the Silver Gavel Awards, go to www.ambar.org/gavelawards.

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