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Joint Summer Happy Hour w/ Macomb Region @ Roast on August 5th

Join members of the Macomb and Wayne Regions for a great happy hour at Iron Chef Michael Symon's fabulous Roast Restaurant in the historic Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit. Come alone and meet some more people or bring a friend, a law student, client or judge.....!

Thursday August 5th

5:00 - 7:00 pm, $10 WLAM members/$20 nonmembers includes appetizers.

1128 Washington Blvd

www.roastdetroit.com

RSVP to either:

Tenicia Vanzant, tvanzant@finsvcs.com or

Kristin Stone, mich.lawyers@gmail.com

3rd Annual Bench Bar Culinary Challenge Was A Huge Success! See The Photos.

The Bench Bar Culinary Challenge Committee's annual Culinary Challenge keeps getting bigger and better every year. Although not a WLAM sponsored event, this summer party and friendly competition raises money for the WLAM Foundation scholarship fund as well as for Alternatives for Girls, and Crossroads for Youth. This year the event raised over $12,500 to be divided among the three charities!

The 3rd Annual Culinary Challenge, held on June 24 at Oakland County Probate Judge Linda Hallmark's home, drew more than 150 people, and was well supported by WLAM Wayne members. On the Culinary Committee were Wayne Region members Judge Kirsten Frank Kelly, Kathy Rogers, Carole Chiamp and Elizabeth Jolliffe. Wayne Region members in attendance were President Allison Bach, State Board Regional Director Julie Pfitzenmaier, former president Judge Lynne Pierce, Judge Connie Kelley, Judge Kay Hansen, Judge Karen Khalil, whose deliciously light spinach pie won in the best appetizer category, and Lauren Andary Phillips. Wayne Region members law students Katie Zeiter (WSU) and Ellen Faba (UDM) were two of the six student volunteers. Thank you Katie and Ellen!

Watch for notices next Spring for the 4th annual Culinary Challenge. It's a great mix of judges, lawyers, food and a live grill-off between "Grilled By The Bench" and "Grilled By The Hour". Perhaps Grilled By The Bench can recover from their loss in time. As for the appetizer and dessert competitions, they are extremely close every year. In fact, defending 2009 dessert champion Judge Lynne Pierce took an immediate appeal to Chief Justice Marilyn Kelly when her awesome oatmeal cookies were defeated by Judge Colleen O'Brien's Knock Your Socks Off Brownies. (Mmmmmm'm, those brownies were incredibly perfect. But note, Michigan Lawyers Weekly associate editor and oatmeal cookie connoisseur Doug Levy was overheard calling the oatmeal cookies the best he has ever had - with just enough crispness.)

Other favorites included Judge Lisa Asadoorian's wonderful lemon blueberry bundt cake and Judge Sheila Gibson Manning's huge peach cobbler. And luckily there were plenty of the extremely popular Polynesian meatball shishkabobs and lambpops from Grilled By The Hour's grills! We've named just a few but all of the food was outstanding! Outstanding!

VIEW 70+ PHOTOS AT:

http://picasaweb.google.com/elizabethjolliffe/CulinaryChallenge#