Cooley Law School's 'The Lawyers' Hosted by Associate Professor Curt Benson and Attorney at Law Mike Dunn
The Devil is in the Details!
Curt Benson and Mike Dunn have been practicing law for a combined 37 years. Curt Benson grew up in a legal household: his father is Judge Robert Benson, his brother and sister are attorneys, his wife is a judge and his grandfather was also an attorney; that is not even including the legal expertise of Curt's extended family!
During his Juris Doctor education at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Curt clerked with Cholette, Perkins and Buchanan until 1986, when he received his degree. He became Associate Attouney the same year with Dennenberg, Tuffley and Jamison, and remained for 6years. In 1992, Curt created a business with a fellow law partner to form Benson and Tacket, P.C., until 1996. Then he went it alone and practiced for nearly a decade before being lured into the Visiting Professorship at his Alma Mater, the Thomas M. Cooley Law School - Grand Rapids campus. He has since made Associate Professor and Thomas M. Cooley has never been the same since!
Aside from his career, Curt also served for six years as member of the Grand Rapids Public Schools Board of Education, two years as President and two years as Vice-president.
Author of Coverage for Specialized Risks – Boiler, Builders Risk, Employment, and Marine, Michigan Insurance Law and Practice (ICLE, 2002). Curt has been hailed as a community leader and legal expert, at least that is what he tells everyone!
He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife Jane, son Bo and daughter Catlin, cats: pepper and pete.
Mike Dunn hails for the Windy City where he was a business owner before turning to the law. Mike received his Juris Doctor degree from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He moved to Grand Rapids in 1987 and began his legal career at Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett, where he practiced in both their Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo offices. Afterward, he attended Western Michigan University for a Masters in Business Administration, where he was also an Adjunct Professor.
Mike is partner at Dunn Gibbons, PLC, in downtown Grand Rapids, in the McKay Tower. His legal focus is Divorce/family law along with Criminal Defense - he is from Chicago after all!
Mike also chairs the Township Zoning Board of Appeals in Caledonia, where he lives with his three sons, Michael, Griffin, and Keifer.
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College presidents from more than 100 schools across the country are calling on lawmakers to do something about binge drinking: Consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18.
Mike Dunn spoke with West Michigan's Morning News for perspective.
The Balance of Education
Wednesday 06-04-2008 8:13am ET
No more classes, no more books?
Grand Rapids Education Association is looking into new rules for students which includes no attendance requirements and that students only need to know the material.
Curt Benson, former Grand Rapids School Board Presidnet, joined West Michigan Morning News about the controversial news.
Alabam Stripper Blames DUI on Job
Wednesday 05-28-2008 8:39am ET
Mike Dunn, Co-Host, joined Gary & Steve of West Michigans Morning News to discuss the case involving an Alabama Stripper whom has filed suit to get out of her DUI charge blaming her intoxicated state on her job.
Listen for the conversation in the pod-cast section.
Myspace Tragedy
Monday 05-19-2008 8:53am ET
A Missouri Mom was indicted for the MySpace Hoax that turned deadly an took the life of a 13-year-old girl.
Thursday, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted a Missouri woman involved in an online hoax that ended in the suicide of a teenage girl.
The indictment charged Lori Drew of O'Fallon, Mo., with three counts of obtaining protected information used to cause emotional distress to Megan Meier and one count of conspiracy. Read.
West Michigan's Morning News spoke with Mike Dunn, co-Host about the case. Listen.
Curt traveled to Lansing to interview Mark Curriden, Author of "Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism"
32 year Prison Escapee
Monday 05-05-2008 8:15am ET
The story of Susan LeFevre, a woman who escaped from prison and changed her life around only to be busted 32 years later.
Curt and Mike took your calls live on the show about this strange case.
She may have turned her life around, but she still owes a debt to the State.
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