UMLI scheduled for June 9-10

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UMLI scheduled for June 9-10

3/9/00

The 2000 Upper Michigan Legal Institute (UMLI) will be held June 9 and 10 at The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.

This continuing education conference is open to all members of the State Bar of Michigan and will include seminars on real property, environmental and family law, collection cases, defense of drunk driving, probate and estate planning and news from Michigan's Attorney General Jennifer Granholm.

The Institute's programs have been approved for 8.5 Wisconsin Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit hours (no ethics, professional responsibility or guardian ad litem hours are included in the total of the CLE hours). The programs have also been approved by the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on CLE for 7.0 CLE credit hours (no ethics, substance abuse or professionalism instruction hours are included in this total). Lawyers wishing to receive CLE credit must sign up on the CLE list located at the Registration Desk.

12:30 p.m. - Introduction (Ronald D. Keefe - Kendricks Bordeau, PC - Marquette Chairperson, Committee on Upper Michigan Lawyers and Commissioner, District A, State Bar of Michigan)

12:35 - Update on Handling Collection Cases (Steven A. Harms - Muller, Muller, Richmond, Harms, Myers & Sgori, PC - Birmingham)

1:45 p.m. - Family Law: PPOs and Family Law Practice; Child Support Collection Under the Family Independence Agency (Hon. Paul J. Clulo - 42nd Circuit Court - Midland)

3 p.m. - Real Property Law & Environmental Update (John G. Cameron, Jr. - Warner, Norcross & Judd, LLP - Grand Rapids)

4:15 p.m. - Probate and Estate Planning: Changes in Practice Under EPIC (John H. Martin - Warner, Norcross & Judd, LLP - Muskegon)

6:30 p.m. - Reception sponsored by the Paul Goebel Group held on the West Front Porch of the Grand Hotel. Saturday, June 10:

9:00 a.m. - Drunk Driving Legislation Update (Elaine H. Charney - Michigan Department of State - Lansing)

9:30 a.m. - Defense of Drunk Driving (Chris A. Bergstrom - Farhat and Story - East Lansing)

10 a.m. - Defense of Juveniles (Frank E. Vandevort - Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center - Ann Arbor)

11 a.m. - Mediation and Facilitation: Proposed New Court Rule (George Googasian - The Googasian Firm, PC - Bloomfield Hills)

12:00 noon - News from Michigan's Attorney General (Jennifer Granholm - Office of the Attorney General - Lansing)

12:30 p.m. - Concluding Remarks and Door Prize drawing.

Vendor visits are scheduled each day before the start of each seminar and during breaks between seminars in the Headquarters of the Capitol Club and Straits of Mackinac Rooms.

Seminars are $35 each. Register by contacting Anne M. Smith of the State Bar of Michigan at (800) 968-1442, extension 6314, by June 1, 2000.

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