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By Nancy Hablutzel
Phil and Nancy Hablutzel and Latham Williams were privileged to represent the ISBA at a pre-screening event for the new film "Conviction" due to be released on October 22, 2010. The film tells the true story of Betty Anne Waters, a high school dropout and mother of two boys, whose older brother, Kenny, was convicted of murder in 1982 in Massachusetts. Betty Anne was positive that he was innocent, and put herself through college and law school over the next 16 years, in order to be able to represent him and win his freedom, supporting herself by tending bar in a nearby pub.
The film, starring Hilary Swank as Betty Anne, follows her through school, as a working mother under considerable stress, and finally to the time when she and her law school classmate Abra Rice (played by Minnie Driver) and who is now in real life an assistant public defender in Connecticut, are working on freeing Kenny. Working with Barry Shreck and the Innocence Project, they are able to finally track down the evidence from the original trial and have DNA tests done, which eliminate Kenny as a suspect and lead eventually to his freedom.
ISBA News
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September 23, 2010 |
ISBA News
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September 22, 2010 |
ISBA News
These programs aired on CAN-TV in Chicago during the month of September.
Response to Intervention Part 1
Click here to view Response to Intervention Part 2 Click here to view Response to Intervention Part 3
Basics of Special Education Law Part 1
Click here to watch Basics of Special Education Law Part 2 Click here to watch Basics of Special Education Law Part 3
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September 21, 2010 |
ISBA News | Practice News
[caption id="attachment_14694" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Russell Hartigan"][/caption] Illinois State Bar Association Board member Russell W. Hartigan has been appointed Circuit Judge of Cook County, at Large, to the vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. John J. Moran. This appointment is effective on Oct. 14, 2010, and terminates on Dec. 3, 2012. Mr. Hartigan is a partner with the firm of Hartigan and O'Connor P.C. He graduated from DePaul University and received his J.D. from the John Marshall Law School.
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September 17, 2010 |
ISBA News
Bloomington attorneys Scott Kording (left) and Mick Hall (second from right), as well as Thomas McClure, a professor and director of legal studies at Illinois State University in Normal, display the “Lawyers Care” plaques they received from Illinois State Bar Association President Mark D. Hassakis (right) at a reception on September 9 at the Bone Student Center on the university campus. Kording, Hall and the university were honored for their many hours of pro bono service to the ISU Mock Trial Program.
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September 13, 2010 |
ISBA News | Member Services
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 August 2010 ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:
- Administrative Law - 11
- Animal Law - 1
- Bankruptcy - 23
- Business Law - 11
- Civil Disputes - 97
- Civil Rights - 31
- Collection - 23
- Consumer Protection - 28
- Contracts - 10
- Criminal Law - 80
- Education Law - 14
- Elder law - 3
- Employment Law - 138
- Estate/Probate Law - 33
- Family - 150
- Government Benefits - 22
- Health Law - 3
- Immigration - 2
- Insurance Disputes - 12
- Intellectual Property - 4
- Miscellaneous - 2
- Municipal Law - 2
- Personal Injury - 105
- Real Estate - 52
- Social Security - 23
- Tax - 6
- Workers Compensation - 13
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August 31, 2010 |
ISBA News
RtI – Response to Intervention and Basics of Special Education Law, two half-hour programs presented by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), will air on Chicago Access Network Television, Channel 21 in Chicago, during the month of September. Response to Intervention will air on Tuesdays, Sept. 7 and 21 at 10 p.m., and Basics of Special Education Law will air on Tuesdays, Sept. 14 and 28 at 10 p.m. Appearing on the shows are (from left) John A. Dively, Jr., J.D., Ed.D., associate professor and chair of educational leadership at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston; program moderator Nancy Z. Hablutzel, a Chicago lawyer; Deborah E. Decker, an attorney at Tabet DiVito & Rothstein, LLC, in Chicago; and Mary Kay Klimesh, an attorney at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago. “Illinois Law” is a cable production of the ISBA, and can now be viewed online at www.illinoislawyernow.com/tag/illinois-law-video.
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August 24, 2010 |
ISBA News
Life of a Lawyer Part I
Click here to view Life of a Lawyer Part II
The Law School Experience Part I
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August 16, 2010 |
Events | ISBA News
The Illinois State Bar Association welcomed a delegation from Ukraine last Friday to discuss the U.S. justice system. The visit was titled "Legislative Reform in the Criminal Justice System" and took place before a scheduled meeting of the ISBA Bench and Bar Section. Among those on hand for the meeting included ISBA member Alexandria Bell, of Johnson & Bell, Ltd., who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine and the age of 19. Bell is pictured at right with members of the Ukrainian delegation and ISBA President Mark Hassakis (from left): Rostyslav Gerasymov, senior counsel to the chairman of the Committee on Justice; Bell; Elina Shyshkina, a member of Parliament; Iryna Mostova, head of the Department of Legistlation on Justice and President Hassakis.
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August 12, 2010 |
Events | ISBA News
The Illinois State Bar Association will have a tent at the upcoming Illinois State Fair in Springfield. The fair opened Thursday night and runs through Sunday, Aug. 22. The tent offers legal brochures for the public, a Legal Eagle quiz on Illinois legal history (prize for 80% and better) and an Abraham Lincoln photo opportunity for state fair patrons who want to put their face in Lincoln's image. There is also a laptop connected to the Illinois Lawyer Finder site that visitors can try out. Visitors can also receive giveaways including: the infamous gavel pencils, small notepads and Lincoln coloring books. More information on the state fair is available at www.agr.state.il.us/isf/
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August 11, 2010 |
ISBA News | Member Services
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 July, ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:
- Administrative Law - 4
- Animal Law - 2
- Bankruptcy - 9
- Business Law - 10
- Civil Disputes - 63
- Civil Rights - 29
- Collection - 31
- Consumer Protection - 11
- Contracts - 13
- Criminal Law - 38
- Education Law -8
- Elder law - 4
- Employment Law - 96
- Estate/Probate Law -17
- Family - 106
- Government Benefits - 16
- Health Law - 3
- Immigration - 1
- Insurance Disputes - 3
- Intellectual Property -7
- Miscellaneous - 1
- Municipal Law - 4
- Personal Injury - 72
- Real Estate - 42
- Social Security - 16
- Tax - 4
- Workers Compensation - 8
