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Butzel Long attorneys were invited to speak at and helped develop the business roundtable program for the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) Conference July 4-6, 2015 in Detroit. TANA is the oldest and largest Indo-American organization in North America.

Butzel Long attorney and shareholder David J. DeVine has been elected to the Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) Board of Trustees. He will serve a three-year term on the Board.

Butzel Long attorney Ronald D. Bassey has reached a milestone in his career – 50-years as a member of the State Bar of Michigan. He is among a group of attorneys who will be honored during a special luncheon on October 9, 2015 at the State Bar of Michigan Annual Meeting in Novi.

DETROIT, Mich. – Aghogho O. Edevbie, associate attorney, Butzel Long law firm, has been elected to the State Bar of Michigan’s Representative Assembly in the 3rd Circuit – Wayne County.

Butzel Long attorney Geoffrey Gallinger interviewed on Comcast Newsmakers.

Attorney George Donnini recalls finishing a clerkship in Manhattan on a Friday and driving to Quantico, Virginia, to check in that Sunday in his camouflage uniform to start a six-month infantry officer training course.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney Ronald P. Strote, is the only Michigan lawyer appointed to the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) newly established Midwest Construction Master Mediator Panel. The 11 mediators from the Midwest, were selected using a rating committee comprised of a diverse group of advocates and in-house counsel representing clients in complex, high stakes disputes.

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder, Bushra Malik, is the Chair of the 2015 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Global Immigration Forum, to be held June 16-17, 2015 in Washington, D.C., and National Harbor, Maryland.

Efe Poturoglu, an attorney and shareholder based in Butzel Long’s Washington, D.C. office, is presenting a legal seminar on June 10, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey at the MÜSİAD headquarters.

Butzel Long will receive the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association (DMBA) Pro Bono Service Award during “Raising the Bar 2015,” the Association’s Annual Meeting on June 2, 2015.

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long, one of the leading law firms in Michigan and the United States, is growing with the addition of attorneys Brett J. Miller and Christina I. Nassar. Miller is a senior attorney who focuses his practice on labor and employment-law and fair-housing litigation. Nassar, an associate attorney. focuses her practice in the areas of automotive-litigation and insurance defense litigation. Both attorneys are based in the firm’s Detroit office.

Butzel Long attorney Rebecca S. Davies is a speaker in demand. She will present a seminar titled, “Hiring and the Law 101,” for the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan (ROC-MI) on April 28. Moreover, Davies is a featured speaker during Walsh College’s HR Summit on May 1. She will discuss recent court rulings and Department of Labor regulations. Davies is an adjunct faculty member at Walsh College.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Efe Poturoglu, an attorney and shareholder based in Butzel Long’s Washington, D.C. office, received the Lawyer of the Year Award, presented by the American-Turkish Association of Washington, D.C (ATA-DC) Poturoglu received the award during the Association’s 50-year Anniversary & Gala fundraiser on April 11, 2015 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. The Lawyer of the Year Award is part of the Turkish American Community Star Awards, organized by ATA-DC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Butzel Long law firm is hosting a Welcome Reception for the 2015 Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) Legislative Summit from 7-9 p.m., on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at its Washington, D.C. office, located at 1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 300.

Special honored guests include: U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell and U.S. Representative Brenda Lawrence.

Detroit should be in autonomous-vehicle driver's seat

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently said that LA could be the first place in an urban center where autonomous vehicles could be promptly ordered up like a car service in a real neighborhood and not just in a protected area. My response: Why not Detroit?

Butzel Long attorney Rebecca S. Davies was a featured presenter during Walsh College’s Entrepreneur-You Conference on March 20, 2015 in Troy. Her presentation was titled, “How Not to Get Burned by a Bad Hire.” Davies is an adjunct faculty member at Walsh College.

Diseases like measles and pertussis (also know as whooping cough), once nearly eradicated, are flaring up in many states including Michigan. A new state policy in effect at the beginning of the year mandates that families who don’t want to immunize their children can no longer get a waiver simply by mailing in a form.

Michigan voters will have the opportunity to vote on May 5 for or against raising the state’s sales tax to 7 percent from 6 percent to fund road maintenance (Proposal 1). Eric Flessland, an attorney and shareholder at Butzel Long in Detroit, spoke with DBusiness Daily News about why those infrastructure improvements are critical to both the state’s businesses and its residents.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Claudia Rast is one of 30 attorneys named to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s “Leaders in the Law” Class of 2015. Honorees will be recognized at a luncheon and awards celebration on March 26, 2015, at the Detroit Marriott Troy.

DETROIT, Mich. – Few companies can operate efficiently without computers, mobile devices and the networks to connect them. Yet many companies and professionals conduct their business without the basic protections and training critical to minimizing cyber intrusions.