I was honored to receive my first pro bono award at Doerr Law Firm, presented by Teri Donaldson of the Southeastern Michigan Administrative Services Group, formerly Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc. ("LAD"). LAD was started in 1909, when the Detroit Bar Association appointed a committee to provide free civil legal services to the city's poor, especially new immigrants from Europe and the South. Now it's is the largest provider of legal services to low and moderate in

What happens if you tell your attorney to update your will but you die before you can sign it? That issue was addressed in In re Attia, __ Mich App __; __NW2nd __; 2016 WL 6652492 (2016), an opinion recently published by the Michigan Court of Appeals. In this case, a father of four executed a will and subsequent codicils that excluded any specific gift for one of his daughters, Mervat Hassan. According to the father, Mervat was “adequately provided for and [wa]s not in need