Correction: A story published in the Aug. 25 Midwest Report, “Motor City’s Struggles Bring Work to Some Firms,” misspelled University of Detroit Mercy School of Law assistant dean Markeisha Miner’s name on second reference. It was she who remarked that summer-associate programs that shrank in 2008 were expanding again.

Detroit is in the middle of the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, but the city’s reorganization and redevelopment efforts by other local governments are creating work for some lawyers.