Over 100 million people use the Internet today, many of them to buy and sell a vast array of items. Joseph McGill and Jill Lynn Zyskowski discuss the significance of common law contract requirements of “mutual assent” as applied to mass-market “shrink-wrap” and “click-wrap” agreements in their article “Enforcement of Shrink-Wrap and Click-Wrap Agreements Under the UCC: Mutual Assent is Pivotal,” published in the Summer 2006 Michigan Business Law Journal.
March 2006
Joseph McGill Co-Authors Article in the Michigan Business Law Journal
Over 100 million people use the Internet today, many of them to buy and sell a vast array of items. Joseph McGill and Jill Lynn Zyskowski discuss the significance of common law contract requirements of “mutual assent” as applied to mass-market “shrink-wrap” and “click-wrap” agreements in their article “Enforcement of
February 2006
Joseph McGill Speaks at the 2006 Michigan Health & Rehab Conference
Joseph McGill recently spoke at the 2006 Michigan Health & Rehab Conference in Troy, Mich. The conference was sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Wright & Filippis and The Filippis Foundation. McGill’s speech was titled, “Medicare Set-Asides: An Overview of Current Requirements and Enforcement Techniques.” Over 200 health care professionals
February 2006
FBM Attorney Elected to the Catholic Lawyers’ Society Board of Directors
Joseph McGill, an associate principal with FBM, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Catholic Lawyers’ Society (CLS). The announcement was made at the society’s annual meeting held at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament on May 21, 2006 in Detroit, MI. Established to promote the
January 2006
Thomas Foley Speaks at the Defense Research Institute’s Products Liability Conference
Tom Foley was a featured speaker at the Defense Research Institute’s (DRI) annual Products Liability Conference held at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. on February 9th. His speech was titled, “Vital Statistics – Understanding Epidemiology.” Nearly 1200 lawyers from across the country that defend businesses in products liability matters
October 2005
FBM Employees Brighten the Holidays for Local Families
Holiday spirit and generosity were alive and well this year at Foley, Baron & Metzger (FBM) where employees worked to brighten the Christmas of two needy local families. Staff at both the Ann Arbor and Farmington Hills offices of FBM shopped for their “adopted” families provided through the SOS Community
May 2005
Foley, Baron & Metzger Donates Money To Help Hurricane Katrina Victims
To help assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, firm members Tom Foley, Richard Baron and Clyde Metzger, along with their colleagues, have donated $4,770 to the American Red Cross. “It is important to all of us at Foley, Baron & Metzger to do what we can to help improve the unfortunate circumstances
April 2005
Clyde M. Metzger and Judy A. Sherman Win Emergency Medicine Malpractice Trial
Clyde M. Metzger and Judy A. Sherman recently won a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case in the Calhoun County (Michigan) Circuit Court. The case involved allegations that the Defendant emergency physician failed to administer the clot busting drug tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) to a stroke patient or make a timely transfer
March 2005
Kim J. Sveska Wins Pharmacy Malpractice Trial
Kim J. Sveska recently won a defense verdict in a wrongful death medical malpractice case in the Macomb County (Michigan) Circuit Court. The case involved allegations that the Defendant pharmacist failed to properly counsel the Plaintiff on the correct use of a concentrated form of a self-administered drug. The jury deliberated