The stepfather of Julia Niswender remains in jail on child pornography charges.Jim Turnquist has been named as a person of interest in the police’s investigation. His attorney is speaking out and questions the timing of the arrest.

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That is the question that will likely be at the center of a lawsuit filed against the Clio Area School District by the father of an elementary school student who claims he was barred from picking up his daughter from class while wearing his pistol holstered on his hip.

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State Bar of Michigan President Thomas C. Rombach has appointed distinguished legal leaders to a new 21st Century Practice Task Force to recommend how the State Bar can best support lawyers’ professional development in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. The task force will also look at the potential for modernizing Michigan’s attorney regulation in response to those changes. SBM Past Presidents Julie Fershtman, of Farmington Hills, and Bruce Courtade, of Grand Rapids, will co-chair the task force. Some of the other members of the task force include three other past presidents of the State Bar, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Mary…

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He was an attorney in private practice and also served as a Macomb County assistant prosecuting attorney.

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Imagine being in the middle of a trial and finding out, to your surprise, that your law license has been suspended because you did not pay your State Bar of Michigan membership dues. This is exactly what happened to a Kentwood attorney.

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Nina Pham, 26, is preparing to file a lawsuit Monday in Dallas County against Texas Health Resources. She said she continues to suffer from body aches and insomnia after contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

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A Troy attorney who failed to hold client or third-party funds separate from his own property has been disbarred.

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A dog owner has filed a lawsuit against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating a brand of the company’s dry dog food.

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The State Bar of Michigan Young Lawyers Section has launched a new “Everyday Justice” Instagram photo competition. There is a separate contest for middle school students (in grades six through eight) and high school students (in grades nine through 12). To enter the contest, middle school students must take a photo that illustrates what people in their community can do to exemplify justice every day, then upload the photo to Instagram on or before March 14 with the hashtag #SBMjusticeeverydayMS. High school students must take a photo that illustrates what people in their community can do to exemplify justice every…

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He worked as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service.

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