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 2014, ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:

Here are the results for August 2014:

• 819 phone referrals made by Lawyer Finder staff
• Most requested areas of law: Family (174), Personal Injury (107), Civil Disputes (83), Criminal Law (80), Real Estate (64), Employment Law (61) and Civil Rights (39).
• 22,173 visits to IllinoisLawyerFinder.com (19,840 unique visitors)

Want to be part of the ISBA Lawyer Finder Service? Call (800) 252-8908 and ask for the Legal Department, or visit www.illinoislawyerfinder.com

Clients should call (800) 922-8757.

With the 2014-15 season quickly approaching, the Chicago Blackhawks would like to offer all Illinois State Bar Association members an exclusive opportunity to purchase preseason tickets.

This offer features a hockey stick autographed by Patrick Kane or Jonathan Toews with the purchase of four or more tickets in the 100 or 200 level, while supplies last*.

This is your opportunity to get an early look at the Blackhawks and see opponents like Detroit, New York and Montreal.

To purchase tickets, CLICK HERE and enter the promo code stick.

Blackhawks Preseason Games:

• Tuesday, Sept. 23 vs. Red Wings at 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, Sept. 26 vs. Rangers at 7:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, Oct. 1 vs. Canadiens at 7:30 p.m.

If you have any questions, or would like to purchase a group of 10 tickets or more for one of these games, please contact TR Johnson in the Chicago Blackhawks Ticket Office at 312-455-7095 or tjohnson@chicagoblackhawks.com

*Details regarding stick pick-up will be communicated the week leading up to your game date. Sticks are distributed at random. Autographed stick giveaways are exclusive to this offer. Sticks must be picked up at the preseason game purchased.

Need to refer a potential client to someone? Can't remember the name of a member you met at an ISBA event? Want other members to be able to find you?

Use the new online Member Directory to find other members (and let other members find you.) Search by first/last name, city, county, zip, ISBA section membership, District, Circuit, practice area, and languages spoken. You can also add members to your contact list.

Law Technology News has launched a new Vendor Satisfaction Survey broken down by industry.  In the legal research survey, respondents ranked Fastcase No. 1 in customer satisfaction in 7 out of 10 categories, and a very close second in two out of the remaining three. Fastcase was the clear winner in “Price for Value,” with 87.5% rating Fastcase as Excellent (LexisNexis was a distant second at 14.3% and Westlaw at 12.7%). Remember, ISBA members receive Fastcase for free as part of their member benefits package.

“In the Likelihood to Recommend” category, 50% of respondents gave Fastcase the highest rating of “Very” (compared to 26.5% for LexisNexis and 20.4% for Westlaw).  

Fastcase also had the highest “Excellent” ratings for Products/services information in vendor literature, Ease of Installation, Customer service responsiveness, Ease of Integration into firm workflow, and Features and functions.

Westlaw ranked highest in one category, with 37.6% rating its availability of training as “Excellent” (narrowly edging Fastcase at 37.5%).  LexisNexis finished first in one category, Ease of integration with other technology, with 25.9% of respondents rating its products as “Excellent” (and narrowly edging Fastcase at 25.0%).