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  • April 8, 2025 | ISBA News
    2025 Law Day Virtual Legal Clinic

    To celebrate Law Day, the ISBA, the ISBA Young Lawyers Division and the Illinois Bar Foundation have partnered with PILI to hold a virtual clinic to train volunteer attorneys on how to answer civil legal questions from people in need through Illinois Free Legal Answers.

    Illinois Free Legal Answers is a secure website where low-income Illinoisans can ask a lawyer for help with a civil legal issue. Volunteer lawyers then log onto the site and answer questions waiting in the queue.

    VIRTUAL CLINIC
    Thursday, May 1, 2025 
    12:00pm to 1:30pm

  • April 2, 2025 | Member Services | ISBA News
    Illinois Lawyer Finder Makes Over 1,100 Referrals in March

    The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays. The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law. For the month of March, 2025, the ISBA helped 1,138 people in need of legal services find lawyers. 

  • April 2, 2025 | ISBA News
    ISBA Board of Governors – Vacancy in Under-Represented Seat

    The ISBA president-elect will appoint a member to one of the under-represented seats of the Board of Governors at the May 16 meeting of the Board of Governors. The member appointed to this position will serve with full Board member privileges for a three-year term beginning the first day of the 2025 Annual Meeting in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

  • March 27, 2025 | ISBA News
    Voting Underway in 2025 ISBA Election

    Voting is now underway in the 2025 ISBA Election.

    ISBA's election vendor, Election-America, emailed e-ballots to members with valid email addresses today, Thursday, March 27. Members—without a valid email address or who prefer to vote by mail—may request a paper ballot by contacting Election-America at Help+isba@election-america.com or (866) 384-9978 Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT. The deadline to request a paper ballot is April 15, 2025.

    Due to potential spam filters, we are offering an alternative method to vote using ISBA’s website.

    To vote online:

    • Go to https://www.isba.org/election.
    • If you are not logged in, click “Login to Vote” and sign in using your ISBA member login information.
    • If you are logged in, click the “Vote Now” button.

    All members of the Association (except non-lawyer members) with dues paid by March 1, 2025, are eligible to vote. The deadline for voting is Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. CT.

  • March 5, 2025 | Member Services | ISBA News
    Illinois Lawyer Finder Makes Over 1,100 Referrals in February

    The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays. The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law. For the month of February, 2025, the ISBA helped 1,199 people in need of legal services find lawyers. 

  • February 21, 2025 | ISBA News
    Illinois State Bar Association Statement Upholding Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law

    The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) stands in support of the Rule of Law and an impartial and independent judiciary. Embodied in the U.S. Constitution, for 236 years these foundational principles have contributed significantly to an ordered society, the preservation of individual rights, checks and balances on excessive government actions, and a firm confidence by the public that access to equal justice is available to all.   

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  • February 14, 2025 | ISBA News
    Illinois State Bar Association’s High School Mock Trial Invitational To Take Place March 15th and 16th in Springfield

    Teams from 52 Illinois high schools will participate in the 42nd annual Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) High School Mock Trial Invitational on March 15 and 16, 2025, at Lincoln Land Community College – Main Campus in Springfield. 

    The top ten teams will compete in the final round on March 16th for the state championship. The winner will represent Illinois at the National High School Mock Trial Championship in Phoenix, Arizona. 

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    February 13, 2025 | People | ISBA News
    ISBA President Sonni Choi Williams Sworn in as Circuit Judge in Twelfth Judicial Circuit

    On Monday, February 10, 2025, Illinois State Bar Association President Sonni Choi Williams (2024-2025) was sworn in as a Circuit Judge in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Third Subcircuit.

  • February 10, 2025 | ISBA News
    ISBA’s Springfield Office Closed on Wednesday, February 12

    On Wednesday, February 12, the ISBA's Springfield Office will be closed so that staff can attend the funeral service of John Berry, the longtime Maintenance Technician for the Illinois Bar Center. As such, the Member Service Representatives will not be available to answer the ISBA's main phone line, but members will still be able to reach staff at the Chicago Regional Office by calling the main phone line and using the digital directory to reach those staff members.

  • February 6, 2025 | ISBA News
    Candidate Report for the 2025 ISBA Election

    The Candidate Report for the 2025 ISBA Election is below. All members of the association (except non-lawyer members) with their dues paid by March 1, 2025 are eligible to vote.

    (N.B.: Where more candidates filed for a position than vacancies available, ballot positions were determined by lot. Ballot positions are listed next to the candidate’s name.)