Insights
Articles and updates — mostly Michigan employment law, commercial litigation, and the mechanics of practice. If you’re short on time, the resources are the useful part of this site; this page is the commentary.
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Michigan Litigation Journal · State Bar of Michigan Litigation Section
Fixing Michigan’s Fragmented E‑Filing
Michigan’s e-filing patchwork turns ordinary filings into logistical problems — different interfaces county to county, entire courts reachable only by car or envelope. This piece argues a unified statewide system is now realistic, and comes with a working open-source proof of concept rather than a slide deck.
Spring 2026 · full text here
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Project · Open source
MUEFS — Michigan Unified E‑Filing System
The proof of concept behind the article: one login, every Michigan court, with companion-document prompts keyed to the court rules, a clerk review queue, and public case search. Fully navigable in the browser — live demo, source on GitHub (AGPL‑3.0).
2026 · ongoing
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Husch Blackwell · Legal Update
Ohio’s New AI Ethics Guide: What Every Lawyer and Judge Needs to Know Right Now
Ohio’s Board of Professional Conduct has distilled the sanctions orders, disciplinary cases, and emerging national consensus on generative AI into practical guardrails. What the guidance actually asks of lawyers and judges — competence, confidentiality, verification, supervision — and where the open questions remain.
June 2026 · external link
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Husch Blackwell · Labor Relations Law Insider
Employer Takeaways from Baseball Union Leader’s Abrupt Resignation
The MLBPA’s leadership crisis, read as a labor-relations case study: what turmoil inside a union does — and doesn’t — change for employers heading into contentious bargaining.
March 2026 · external link
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Husch Blackwell · Labor & Employment Law Insights
Michigan Supreme Court Upends Shortened Limitations Periods in Employment Contracts
Contractually shortened limitations periods in adhesive employment agreements must now survive judicial scrutiny for reasonableness — a real change for employers that have relied on them, with practical drafting implications.
August 2025 · external link
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Series · Followed across four years
Michigan’s minimum wage and paid sick leave overhaul
One ballot initiative, an adopt-and-amend maneuver, a constitutional challenge, a Supreme Court ruling, and an eleventh-hour legislative amendment — covered as it unfolded, while Michigan employers rewrote their handbooks twice. The pieces, in order:
- Court of Claims finds “adopt-and-amend” unconstitutionalAug 2022
- Court of Appeals reverses; the status quo holdsJan 2023
- Supreme Court rules; preparing for the PMLA‑to‑ESTA transitionAug 2024
- What the ruling requires of employers, updatedDec 2024
- Last-minute amendments land before the effective dateFeb 2025
2022–2025 · external links
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Husch Blackwell · Labor & Employment Law Insights
Employers with Out-of-State Employees: A Method for Assessing Wage & Hour Obligations
Remote work scattered employees across states, and wage-and-hour obligations scattered with them. A practical method for assessing the differences before they become collective actions. With Tracey O’Brien.
May 2022 · external link