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Jacob Podell of West
Bloomfield has been
selected as one of
two student dele-
gates to represent
Michigan at the 51st
annual United States
Senate Youth
Podell
Program to be held
in Washington, D.C., in March. He is
also being awarded a $5,000 under-
graduate scholarship to the college or
university of his choice to continue
studies to support a career in public
service.

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Wendy Potts was recently sworn in for
another term as a judge of the Oakland
County Circuit Court. In 1997, she
was appointed to the Probate Court in
Oakland County. Later that year, she
was appointed to the Circuit Court and
has since been elected four consecu-
tive times, serving as chief judge from
2004-2009. She is a past president of
the Oakland County Bar Association
and a past secretary of the State Bar of
Michigan. Judge Potts currently serves
as vice chair of the Michigan State Bar
Foundation.

Musicians Frank Pahl and Little Bang Theory join traditional
Japanese silent film narrator Ichiro Kataoka for a special
performance of an early film by Japan's great Yasujiro Ozo.

7p.m., Detroit Film Theater.

Puppet Performances

Heather Henson's Ibex Puppetry returns with its
Endangered Species Parade, featuring animal puppets,
kites, flags, dancers and musicians.

Saturday E Sunday, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Great Hall.

Bick

Several attorneys
from Williams,
Williams, Rattner
& Plunkett PC in
Birmingham have
been included in

Michigan Super
Lawyers 2012:
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Robert S. Bick of
Franklin, corpo-
rate law, mergers and acquisitions,
corporate governance and business
planning; Robert B. Labe of West
Bloomfield, business law, estate plan-
ning, estate and trust administra-
tion, tax law and tax planning; and
Richard D. Rattner of Franklin, real
estate, land use, zoning and corporate
law.

Now on View

Faberge: The Rise and Fall, through January 21. FINAL WEEKS!
Motor City Muse: Detroit Photographs, Then and Now,
through June 16.

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receive free general museum admission.

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Southfield-based
Maddin, Hauser,
Wartell, Roth &
Heller P.0
announced that
shareholder Richard
J. Maddin of West
Bloomfield has been
selected among the
2013 Best Lawyers in
America "Detroit Lawyers of the Year"
as the 2013 Detroit Litigation-Land
Use & Zoning Lawyer of the Year.
Maddin, a certified mediator, is a liti-
gator in the areas of real estate con-
struction, zoning and alternative dis-
pute resolution practice.

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Barry F. LaKritz of
the Law Offices of
Barry F. LaKritz P.C.
in Bloomfield Hills
has again been
selected for inclusion
in Best Lawyers in
America. He was a
Top 100 vote getter
among the practicing
attorneys in Michigan designated as
Michigan Super Lawyers. Additionally,
he has been named in the Bar Register
of Preeminent Lawyers. LaKritz is
dedicated to representation of victims
in claims and lawsuits against insurers
and corporations, involving serious
injury or death.

Rattner

Fishman

Michael D.
Fishman of Rader,
Fishman & Grauer
PLLC was named
Lawyer of the Year
in the area of trade-
mark law in his geo-
graphic location by

Best Lawyers of
America. He was
also named to the 2013 list of Best
Lawyers in America. Fishman has
filed, prosecuted and maintained
thousands of trademark applications
and registrations in more than 200
jurisdictions worldwide. Rader
Fishman & Grauer is a leading intel-
lectual property law firm representing
companies worldwide.

Dr.

Jay Nitzkin of
Farmington Hills
has expanded
Livonia Dental Care
at 33428 Five Mile
Road. The practice
has added more
than 600 square feet
Nitzkin
to the original
2,700-square-foot
facility. It includes three new state-of-
the-art rooms for hygiene and emer-
gency treatment, where he will be
able to see patients the same day, and
a conference room for education and
meetings. With this year's expansion,
Livonia Dental Care has nine treat-
ment rooms.