Mentors Needed! This year-long mentoring program pairs ISBA lawyers with new admittees to provide them guidance during their first years of practice. All participants will receive 6 MCLE credits, including 6 PMCLE credits, upon successful program completion of the year long program. Credit is issued by the Commission on Professionalism when you attest completion of the program. This program can be used as an alternative to the new MCLE requirement of 1 hour of Diversity & Inclusion PMCLE credit and 1 hour of Mental Health/Substance Abuse PMCLE credit.

Back by popular demand! Don’t miss the 6th Annual Bock Food Law and Policy Conference as we explore the hot topics and emerging legal issues in the food and agricultural law industries. Attorneys with intermediate practice experience who attend this online program will learn about:

Many practices are primarily statutory-based practice; for example, State and Local Taxation begins, at its core, with Chapter 35 of the ILCS. And any time a case changes or impacts any part of that section of the statues, you can be sure that it will likely be codified into statute (or overridden) soon after. So too with most statute-based practices. Because of this, familiarity with the proposed changes to the statutes are one of the best ways to keep track of current tax trends, while gaining the roadmap you need to advise your clients on potential future issues.

As attorneys, we strive to be successful, appear confident, and bolster confidence in our clients. But too often, these “professional” traits saddle us with the reputation of being arrogant and unfeeling. This reputation is bad for our profession and bad for our clients who, after all, are individuals that came to us for help.