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STRAKER EVENTS

CORPORATE COUNSEL BREAKFAST

Alternative Pathways for Attorneys with Guest Speaker Dennis Archer, Jr.

The Corporate Counsel Breakfast is an annual program hosted by
the Bar Association to provide an opportunity to engage in an
interactive exchange on the issues that impact corporate counsel
and the law firms who service them to promote the hiring, retention,
and promotion of diverse attorneys in corporations and in private
practice. The Corporate Counsel Breakfast program will include the
awarding of the Harry J. Pearce Scholarship.

This year's featured speaker will be Dennis Archer, Jr., Esq., who is
speaking on Alternative Pathways for Attorneys. Mr. Archer is the
CEO of Ignition Media Group (a leading integrated marketing
agency), a founding partner of Archer Corporate Services, and the majority owner of Central
Kitchen + Bar (named by The Detroit Free Press as one of Detroit’s 2016 top new
restaurants of the year). Archer’s civic and philanthropic involvement includes Chair of the
Detroit Regional Chamber Board of Directors and Chair of the 2016 Mackinac Policy
Conference, as well as serving on the boards of the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy,
Dennis W. Archer Foundation, the i.am.angel Foundation, Wish Upon a Teen and Walnut
Lake Preschool. Archer also serves on the General Motors Diversity Supplier Council and
as a director of Main Street Bank, where he has served on the audit, loan and CRA
committees.