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How to respond to ICE in the workplace. I represent employers across a range of industries: automotive, insurance, professional services, and secondary education, just to name a few. My clients’ owners come from an equally diverse background and ru… Read More

Most of our estate planning clients tell us they don’t want their estates to be subject to probate following their deaths. They’ve either experienced the probate process themselves or they’ve heard about it from others, and they know post-death… Read More

Significant changes to the Michigan Employment Security Act took effect last month. The updates include: Expanded work-search requirement. Claimants must now report at least three work-search activities each week, up from one. Qualifying activities i… Read More

Summer is a season for family vacations, camps, educational trips, and visits with grandparents. But what happens if your child is staying with another trusted adult without you and a medical or other important decision needs to be made? Michigan law… Read More

Your grandmother’s photo albums and bank statements sat in a box, waiting for someone to flip through them. Your own records live differently: photos, email, and increasingly your money locked behind a password only you know. Our lives used to… Read More

The importance of funding your trust. A trust agreement is essentially a contract containing terms for the management and distribution of assets transferred to the trust. A declaration of trust, on the other hand, is a list of assets transferred or t… Read More

Family medical history requests trigger GINA liability. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently sued Dana Sealing Manufacturing, LLC, alleging that the company violated the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) by… Read More

Social media use in the workplace is no longer occasional or incidental. With over 73% of the U.S. population active on at least one social media platform, it is a regular part of our everyday lives. Social media use in the workplace is no exception.… Read More