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  • Michigan Judicial Council unveils comprehensive plan to improve trial court funding, justice, and access

    November 10, 2025

    In a landmark step toward implementing the 2019 recommendations of the Trial Court Funding Commission, the Michigan Judicial Council (MJC) on Thursday, November 6, released a concept paper entitled, “Alternative Funding for Trial Courts: Implementation Recommendations,” outlining a bold new blueprint for funding Michigan’s courts.

  • Brownfield returns to lead law firm’s trusts, estates practice group

    November 10, 2025

    After serving as vice president and general counsel of a well-known public charity serving southeast Michigan, attorney Laura L. Brownfield recently rejoined Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms.

  • The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot and the Mariners’ Church of Detroit

    November 10, 2025

    November 10, 1975. It is 50 years since the “gales of November came early” and the “pride of the American side” sank in the “big lake they call Gitche Gumee” carrying a “load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more” than the “Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.”

  • Daily Briefs

    November 10, 2025

    Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced on Friday the appointment of Cheryl Sweeney to the Monroe County Probate Court. 

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