Board of Governors

Sarah E. Toney, of Chicago, and Wesley Gozia, of Carlyle, have been elected treasurer and secretary, respectively, of the Illinois State Bar Association. Their terms will last for one year until the Annual Meeting of 2024.

At its meeting on June 25, 2021, the Board of Governors will fill the following vacancy:

Under 37 – Outside Cook County

Members who fill vacancies must have their designated ISBA address in the appropriate Board electoral area. Candidates for this vacancy must be under the age of 37 on June 25, 2021. By bylaw, the term of this Under 37 seat will be for one year (ending at the Annual Meeting 2022). This seat will be filled for a full three-year term by election during the regular 2021/2022 election cycle.

The Illinois State Bar Association’s Board of Governors approved two new Professional Conduct Advisory Opinions on March 26 during its regularly scheduled Board meeting.

The opinions address a lawyer representing surviving spouse as both estate administrator and renouncing spouse, and a lawyer's disclosure of client estate planning documents after the client's death.

The Illinois State Bar Association’s Board of Governors approved three new Professional Conduct Advisory Opinions on September 25 during its regularly scheduled Board meeting.

The opinions address an attorney’s duty to disclose confidential information about a client’s fraud to third parties in an effort to prevent, lessen, or rectify the fraud; a lawyer’s responsibility to hold funds whose ownership is disputed until the dispute is resolved; and the ethical Rules that do not bind an attorney to continue proceeding with an appeal of a court’s decision appointing a guardian for a client who currently lacks mental capacity, in the manner discussed between the lawyer and the client previously, when the client had adequate mental capacity.