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  • Special occasion

    April 23, 2024

    The inaugural Raze Smoqa event took place April 10 at Saints Peter and Paul Jesuit Church in Detroit.  Presented by the Chaldean American Law Student Association and the Chaldean American Bar Association, the event served as the Chaldean adaptation of the Red Mass tradition, “a ceremony seeking the Holy Spirit’s guidance for wisdom and the pursuit of justice,” according to Tina Toma, a third-year student at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

  • Raising the bar: We Care Foster Care event to spotlight programs

    April 23, 2024

    With a history of strong support from the Detroit area legal community, the We Care Foster Care organization will showcase its programs at a fund-raising luncheon on Thursday, May 2, on the historic island of Belle Isle.
    The luncheon’s location on an island is symbolic of those children who spend their youth in various foster care programs, oftentimes isolated from the mainstream world around them, yearning for a loving and nurturing environment in which they can thrive in an educational, emotional, and social sense.

  • GETTING TO KNOW: Denise LaFave Smith

    April 23, 2024

    A sole practitioner in Lansing, attorney Denise LaFave Smith opened her practice in 2004, focusing on family law, disability and public benefits, and probate law.  
    In addition to her private practice, she has represented parents and children in juvenile delinquency and child abuse and neglect cases as court-appointed counsel for more than 15 years. She also currently represents parents in an Ingham County treatment court.

  • ‘Bar Night Out’ planned by OCBA

    April 23, 2024

    The Oakland County Bar Association will host a spring membership mixer with “Bar Night Out at Granite City” on Thursday, May 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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