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 November 2012, ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:
The Illinois State Bar Association will be recognizing members who have been admitted to practice for 50 years at a luncheon on Wednesday, Dec. 12. We are pleased to invite you to join President John E. Thies as the Association recognizes the 2012 Class of Distinguished Counsellors.
The luncheon to recognize the 2012 Class of Distinguished Counsellors will be held at Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. There will be a reception at 11:15 a.m. and lunch at noon. Tickets are available at $75 per person and advanced registration is required.
If you have any questions, please contact Kim Weaver by e-mail at kweaver@isba.org or by telephone at (800) 252-8908.
Congratulations to the 1962 Class of Distinguished Counsellors:
The Agenda for the December 15, 2012 Assembly meeting is available. The Assembly meeting will begin at 9 a.m. at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom 10.
ISBA President John E. Thies and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan highlight the upcoming Lawyers Feeding Illinois campaign that aims to collect a million meals for needy Illinois families.
The following members’ tweets (see below) were randomly chosen as the winners of our ISBA Membership is Tweet contest.
Ellen Beth Gill (@EllenBethGill) of Northbrook, Matthew M. Rossetti (@entreprelawyer) of Chicago and Megan Wood (@MeggyLouWoo) of Normal will each receive an iPad Mini for tweeting about their favorite ISBA membership benefits.
Thanks to everyone who participated - all tweets can be viewed at https://twitter.com/ISBAmembership
My favorite ISBA member benefits are Fast Case online legal research and ISBA Mutual. #isbabenefits
— EllenBethGill (@EllenBethGill) November 26, 2012The discount on malpractice insurance for new lawyers is amazing! #isbabenefits
Nominations are being accepted for ISBA awards that will be presented on June 21, 2013, at the Annual Awards Luncheon. Additional information is available at www.isba.org/awards
The Illinois State Bar Association's Special Committee on Law School Debt, formed by President John E. Thies, will hold the final of five open hearings on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the Chicago Regional Office, 20 S. Clark. ISBA members are encouraged to attend this meeting to discuss how increasing law school debt is impacting the delivery of legal services.
Tweet about ISBA member benefits throughout the month of November and be entered to win a new iPad Mini.
Throughout the month of November (2012) we are running an "ISBA Membership is Tweet!" Twitter campaign for our members. We're encouraging members to post a "Tweet" to the Twitter hash tag - #isbabenefits – for the chance to win 1 of 3 iPad Minis that we will be giving away*. Tweets should answer one of the following questions:
Find out more and read what fellow members have tweeted at www.isba.org/isbamit
Bryan Stevenson, a widely-acclaimed public interest lawyer who is perhaps best known for winning a U.S. Supreme Court case which held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger is unconstitutional, will speak about his experiences fighting for the rights of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned at a noon luncheon during the Midyear Meeting of the Illinois Judges Association (IJA) and Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers on Friday, Dec. 14.
Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, in Montgomery, Alabama, has dedicated his life to helping the underserved population receive justice. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has been awarded 13 honorary doctorate degrees and has received numerous awards including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award.
ISBA President John E. Thies would like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to ISBA members and staff.