Resume

• 2008

  Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore

  Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore

• 2007

  Legal Assistance Center of West Michigan

  Grand Rapids Bar Association

  Legal Assistance Center

  WMU Thomas M. Cooley Law School

  Legal Assistance Center of West Michigan

• 2001

  Girl Scouts of Michigan Trails

  Law School Liaison Committee (Chair)\nProgram Committee\nFirst Year Committee\n3Rs Steering Committee

  Grand Rapids Bar Association

  Girl Scouts of Michigan Trails

• 2000

  State Bar of Michigan

  Standing Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law\n--Member

  2000-2005 (term limited after 6 years)\n--Member

  2007-2008\n--Chair 2008-20012

  (term limited after 6 years)\n--Member

  2013-present\n\nRegulatory Objectives Committee (Co-chair)

  2017-Present\n\nProfessional Standards Steering Committee

  2017-Present\n\nAccess and Affordability Committee of the 21st Century Task Force

  2014-2016; Work-Group Co-chair\n\nAd Hoc Committee on Codifying the Definition of the Practice of Law

  2013-2014

  State Bar of Michigan

• 1991

  Drew

  Cooper & Anding

  Drew

  Cooper & Anding

• 1987

  Miller

  Canfield

  Miller

  Canfield

  Professor

  I profess.

  WMU Thomas M. Cooley Law School

  Legal Assistance Center

  Nonprofit assistance to self-represented individuals in the judicial system

  Board President

  Greater Grand Rapids

  Michigan Area

• 1984

  JD

  Law

• 1980

  BA

  English; Philosophy

• 1978

  Seaholm High School

  Grand Valley State University

• Courts

  Nonprofits

  Arbitration

  Civil Litigation

  Mediation

  Legal Issues

  Trials

  Public Speaking

  Appeals

  Commercial Litigation

  Personal Injury

  Legal Research

  Corporate Law

  Alternative Dispute Resolution

  Legal Writing

  Constitutional Law

  Contract Law

  Litigation

  Civil Procedure

  Trial Practice

  -\tJudging in West Michigan: Celebrating the Community Impact of Effective Judges and Courts

  Devin Schindler

  Kara Zech Thelen

  Nelson Miller

  The editors

  professors from Thomas M. Cooley Law School's Grand Rapids campus

  produced this book in conjunction with the Grand Rapids Bar Association to celebrate the community impact in West Michigan of effective judges and courts. Professor Hastings' contribution is the historical introduction

  which explores the evolution of law in West Michigan from native tribal days through French

  English

  and eventual US control.

  -\tJudging in West Michigan: Celebrating the Community Impact of Effective Judges and Courts

  The Michigan legislature has moved the Court of Claims out of Ingham County and into the Court of Appeals

  which will now sit in appellate jurisdiction of its own decisions. How have the courts reacted to this quixotic change

  and how does it impact lawyers who practice before the Court?

  \"Down the Rabbit Hole with the Court of Claims\"

  Nelson Miller

  Curt Benson

  The Federal Rules of Evidence

  taken as a whole

  represent an ethical system—not just norms

  values

  or cultural constructs but a genuine way of comprehending the world consistent with our best understanding of how it would

  if not constrained

  truly operate. Underlying each rule are assumptions about the nature and dispositions of lawyers

  clients

  witnesses

  jurors

  and judges

  as well as the nature of evidence itself. Those assumptions symbolize what the Rules’ promulgators understand to be the imperatives of justice in a system peopled by the created

  the fallen

  and the redeemed. Citing each of the 67 Federal Rules of Evidence

  this Article explores the Rules’ symbolism as a way of synthesizing them while revealing and evaluating our foundational common understandings about those whom they govern.

  The Symbolism of the Federal Rules of Evidence--the Created

  the Fallen and the Redeemed

  Marian Hillegan

  Donald Petersen

  Nelson Miller

  In this co-authored article

  the authors argue that advances in biotechnology have had

  are having

  and will continue to have a substantial effect on the common law

  legislation

  and regulation

  similar to the effects that the industrial age and information age had on law. Biotechnology impacts human rights

  constitutional rights

  tort law

  criminal law

  commerce

  administrative regulation

  professional regulation

  employment law

  trade and treaties

  and other law fields. Lawyers

  judges

  and law scholars should give careful attention to the worldviews that inform decisions on how law should respond to the demands biotechnology places upon law and the civil and criminal justice systems.

  -\tSuperHuman—Biotechnology’s Emerging Impact on the Law

  Christopher