Sell? Buy? Hold? That has been the lawyers’ dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. COVID-19 has proven to be an unforeseen accelerant in the law practice sale marketplace. Many senior solo and small-firm practitioners are motivated to sell their practices while less-seasoned lawyers recognize buying opportunities to build their existing practices.
Illinois Bar Journal
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January 10, 2022 | Practice News
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January 3, 2022 | Practice News
There is no doubt that being a successful attorney requires hard work. But is it possible to put in the hours while having enough left over for your personal life? In the January Illinois Bar Journal’s cover article, “A Balanced Life,” the IBJ interviews several hard-working attorneys—young and seasoned—who also have worked hard to balance career and life.
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December 13, 2021 | Practice News
Earlier this year, the ISBA Steering Committee on Racial Inequality had the opportunity to collaborate with State Sen. Elgie R. Sims Jr. (D-Chicago) and to discuss the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus’s effort on the then-Criminal Justice, Violence Reduction and Police Accountability bill. In the December Illinois Bar Journal, authors of the column The Resolution, written by the cochairs of the ISBA Steering Committee on Racial Inequality, spoke with Sen. Sims to revisit progress made since the bill was passed and ongoing efforts to reform criminal justice policies in Illinois.
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December 8, 2021 | ISBA News
The 2022 first place winner of the Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest is Daniel C. Katzman, a partner at Katzman & Sugden, LLC, Belleville, who wrote “A Brave New World of Digital Payments for Lawyers?” Daniel's article will appear in the February issue of the Illinois Bar Journal.
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December 6, 2021 | Practice News
In her December Illinois Bar Journal article, “A Firefly Is Not a Fly Made of Fire,” Lauren Riddick makes a convincing case that many mortgage foreclosure filing preconditions have been mischaracterized as a “condition precedent,” resulting in a stricter standard of compliance for lenders than would otherwise be required.
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November 29, 2021 | Practice News
You’ve heard about “implicit bias” and “microagression.” What about “microinvalidations” and “microinsults”? The cover story for December’s Illinois Bar Journal wades into these sensitive terms based on interviews with Dana and Keith Cutler, cohosts of the television show, Couples Court With the Cutlers.
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November 22, 2021 | Practice News
In his November Illinois Bar Journal article, “Coronavirus & Disability Insurance: Trends to Follow,” David A. Bryant notes that 2020 and 2021 have been defined, in great part, by the COVID-19 pandemic. While vaccination efforts are providing a glimmer of hope, the novel coronavirus will affect our lives—and disability insurance claims—for the foreseeable future.
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November 8, 2021 | Practice News
Since 1999, when Illinois passed the Electronic Commerce Security Act (ECSA), Illinois has recognized electronic documents and electronic signatures. Over the last 22 years, the law on electronic documents and electronic signatures has remained largely unchanged—until this year, writes Ray Prather in his November Illinois Bar Journal article, “Sign, Sign Away.”
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November 1, 2021 | Practice News
“Technology keeps changing, except when it doesn’t,” writes Ed Finkel in the November Bar Journal’s cover story, “26 Tech Tips for Saving Money, Time, and Sanity.” It’s important, Finkel continues, to keep up with the changes that do take place and according to attorneys who participated in an ISBA CLE session held on June 24 called 60 Virtual Tips in 60 Minutes. The Illinois Bar Journal took in the session and curated 26 great tips from the program for November’s article.
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October 25, 2021 | Practice News
How might Illinois take more seriously its Constitution’s directive of returning offenders of all ages to useful citizenship. In their October Illinois Bar Journal article, “Useful Sentencing,” Andrea D. Lyon and Hannah J. Brooks show how Illinois courts have interpreted this part of the state’s constitution in lockstep with the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretations of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual” punishment—and how Illinois has seriously reassessed its position on sentencing in light of the major decisions on that subject from both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Illinois Supreme Court.