ISBA News

[caption id="attachment_11434" align="alignright" width="234" caption="Clockwise from upper right: Karen Enright, Mark Wojcik, Russell Hartigan, Jamie Bas"][/caption] The results from the Illinois State Bar Association's election are in and incumbents Russell W. Hartigan and Mark E. Wojcik have been re-elected to the Board of Governors. Karen M. Enright of Chicago picked up the third Cook County seat. Jamie L. Bas of Swansea was the winner in the Under 37 Downstate race. Hartigan is a partner at Hartigan & O’Connor P.C. in Chicago. He focuses his practice in civil litigation, municipal, personal injury and real estate. He is the current board liaison to the Civil Practice Section Council, Local Government Law Section, Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence. Wojcik is a professor at the John Marshall Law School where he has taught legal writing, torts, human rights and international subjects. He previously chaired the ISBA’s International and Immigration Section and served on the Human Rights Section Council, the Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the Special Committee on GATS. Enright is a partner at Winters Enright Salzetta & O’Brien, L.L.C. in Chicago.  She focuses her practice in personal injury and won the 2009 ISBA Board of Governors Award. Enright was president of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois from 2007-2008. Bas is an associate at DeFranco & Bradley P.C.

[caption id="attachment_11092" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Some of the Ask a Lawyer Day participants at the Illinois Bar Center in Springfield on May 1 included (left to right): attorney Michael Robinson, lawyer referral clerk Mary Kinsley, front desk receptionist Bev Oshesky, McKinzie Oshesky, attorney Tom Carlisle, legislation staffer Jill Gilpin and legal staffer Tracy Potter."][/caption] Ask a Lawyer Day volunteers manning phone banks at the ISBA's Illinois Bar Center in Springfield provided legal assistance to over 200 Illinois residents on Saturday. Calls were answered from 41 counties from around the state. Volunteers also provided assistance via phone banks at the Chicago Bar Association, DuPage County Bar Association and Will County Bar Association. Springfield volunteers included:

• Thomas Carlisle
• Henry Hagen
• Bill McNutt
• Dale Schempp
• Tim Tigue
• Don LoBue
• Michael Robinson
• John Bailen

[caption id="attachment_10768" align="alignright" width="150" caption="John O'Brien"][/caption] ISBA President John O'Brien was featured in this week's "Info Junkie" column in Crain's Chicago Business. President O'Brien dishes on "Chicago Tonight," Amazon's Kindle and his favorite books. Find out more about ISBA's 133rd president. At home in Arlington Heights or at his health club, WBBM-AM/780 for "the basics of living in Chicago," and the Daily Herald and Tribune for local and state news and client-related tidbits. "Somebody might have won an award; I've gotten a lot of mileage from handwritten notes. They go a long way toward building relationships."

[caption id="attachment_10461" align="alignright" width="300" caption="ISBA Committee on Strategic Marketing Chair John Bailen, IJA President Ron Spears, IJA 1st VP Lewis M. Nixon, IJA Secretary M. Carol Pope, IJA 3rd VP Rita M. Novak and ISBA President John O'Brien"][/caption] ISBA President John G. O'Brien presented ISBA street banners to the Illinois Judges Association and its president, Judge Ron Spears, at the Annual Judicial Education Conference on Monday at the Swissotel Chicago. The banners were produced in commemoration of the  200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The banners were displayed at various locations in downtown Chicago and in Springfield during the year-long celebration. Also on hand for the presentation were IJA 1st VP Lewis M. Nixon, IJA Secretary M. Carol Pope, IJA 3rd VP Rita M. Novak and John Bailen, chair, ISBA Committee on Strategic Marketing.