° On February 3, 2009, StateBarWatch invoked the procedure pursuant to MCL 600.4501 to request that the Attorney General remove Timothy Raubinger as the Assistant Secretary of the Michigan Board of Law Examiners.  MCL 600.922 states "The clerk of the supreme court ex-officio is the assistant secretary and treasurer of the board." The clerk of the supreme court is presently Corbin Davis, not Timothy Raubinger. 

° StateBarWatch will be educating the public about the hundreds of thousands of dollars of that the State Bar of Michigan has spent on outside counsel to fight three bar applicants, namely Dennis Dubuc (click here), Stephen Dean (click here) and Frank Lawrence (click here).  To read about the effect that the SBM's spending has had on its budget, click here.  It may be worth it to the people at the State Bar, but is it worth it to the dues paying members?

° StateBarWatch has learned that the State Bar of Michigan is presently suing its own insurance company to try to recoup the first $237,000.00 that it spent fighting StateBarWatch founder Frank Lawrence's attempts to get a law license.  And that only includes the first lawsuit that was filed in 2003.  The costs of the most recent litigation have likely exceeded the half-million dollar mark.  StateBarWatch is investigating the lawsuit.  Click here to see the State Bar's complaint against its own insurance company.  Specifically, take a look at paragraph #39.

° StateBarWatch has some tough questions for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman and what he will do to improve Michigan's attorney licensing system.  After all, his own wife had to sue the State Board of Law Examiners to get her law license.  See, Markman v Michigan Board of Law Examiners, 464 N.W.2d 493 (Mich. 1991) (table order).

° No one likes plagiarism.  StateBarWatch is trying to get the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism to investigate why (former) State Bar of Michigan Executive Director John T. Berry failed to acknowledge that an article he published was based upon another person's work.  Click here for more.