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CHAMBERS USA 2014 RECOGNIZES WARNER NORCROSS AS LEADING MICHIGAN LAW FIRM For the 12th consecutive year, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP has been recognized as one of the leading law firms in Michigan by Chambers USA 2014. Warner Norcross was ranked as one of Michigan’s leading law firms in the areas of banking and finance, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits and executive compensation, and commercial
litigation. Additionally, 10 attorneys were recognized individually for their work in the above areas, as well as bankruptcy.
fight childhood obesity by presenting free fitness assemblies for local elementary school second and third graders.
Chambers USA is published annually by London-based Chambers and Partners and highlights top firms and attorneys in each state. To learn more, visit www.wnj.com.
Paul Nagel, co-owner of The Institution, visits different elementary schools in the Lansing School District during the week to train second and third grade students. The Institution also offers a free session at the studio at 216 S. Washington Sq., from 11 a.m. to noon every Saturday for children ages 6-12.
LOCAL FITNESS STUDIO PROVIDES FREE FITNESS FOR KIDS The Institution, a new fitness studio in downtown Lansing, is on a mission to
LANSING REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE, OUTSTANDING SMALL BUSINESS AND LEGACY AWARDS The Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce (LRCC) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2014 Annual Dinner awards: Michael G. and Deborah L. Harrison have been named recipients of the Community Service Award; Harvest Creative Services and Stony Point Communications have been named co-winners of the Outstanding Small Business Award; and PNC Bank has been chosen as the recipient of the fourth annual Chamber Legacy Award. All three awards were presented during the 2014 Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner, held Thursday, Feb. 20 at the Michigan State University Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. The selection of Michael G. and Debra L. Harrison for the distinguished Community Service Award marks just the second time in the history of the award that a couple has been selected as the recipients (Jud and Louise Werbelow in 1997). Michael Harrison has enjoyed a distinguished legal career including 24 years as an Ingham County Circuit Court Judge (chief judge 1980-1991), and currently serves as a senior attorney for Foster, Swift, Collins, and Smith P.C.. Among his extensive community and professional contributions, Michael served as president of the Lansing Sesquicentennial Foundation Board of Directors and has been active in the Rotary Club (president), Boy Scouts of American Chief Okemos Council Executive Board (president) and the United Way. Debra Harrison has enjoyed a distinguished career as a community volunteer. She was a founding member for the Wharton Center Inner Circle
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and helped pull together the Women’s Interest Group, which provided a professional network for women in the community. As a breast cancer survivor, she helped establish in the Sparrow Foundation the Deborah L. and Michael G. Harrison Endowment for Mammography that pays for mammograms for those who cannot afford them, as well as research, education and equipment related to breast care health. Since 1982, Harvest Creative Services has been offering clients creative branding solutions through strategy, writing, video, music and design. Steve Curran, president and creative director, and his partner Mark Miller are the creative geniuses behind some of the most well-known local and national ad campaigns. Stony Point Communications is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014. Owners Anne Harcus and Mark Holoweiko sat down at the kitchen table in December 1994 to sketch out a plan for launching a new kind of strategic public relations and marketing agency. Harcus and Holoweiko organized their agency on a network model which means at its center would be their home-based offices and those of other employees, knit together by a virtual private network. It was designed to be a small, low-overhead operation, yet capable of delivering national caliber creative services at a moderate cost. As one of the longest serving members of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, PNC Bank has a proud history of serving the Chamber and the Greater Lansing region. The original bank formed in 1892 and was known as American State Savings Bank. The PNC brand was introduced to the greater Lansing region in 2008 when PNC acquired National City Corporation. Today, PNC has 66 retail branches and ATM machines within a 17-mile radius of downtown Lansing.