Every year the ISBA Young Lawyers Division sponsors the Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest, which is open to all YLD members and awards $3,500 in prize money for the best article on “useful, practical…topics important to practicing lawyers,” to quote the rules. The first-place winner appears in the February Illinois Bar Journal, but many of the nonwinning articles also appear in the IBJ.
It’s always a competitive field, and winning is a big deal in which the authors can take great pride. So congrats to these distinguished lawyers: first place, David C. Holland and Gilbert C. Lenz, Chicago, who wrote "Immigration Bias and Jury Selection in Illinois"; second place, Matthew S. Dionne, Mt. Vernon, who wrote "After Union Planters: Its Implications and Avoiding Malpractice"; and third place, Sarah A. Smith, Chicago, for "Is There Anonymous Online Speech in Illinois? Rule 224 versus the First Amendment." The first place winners will each receive a check for $1,000 (splitting the $2,000 prize), second place $1,000, and the third place $500.
We want to thank our distinguished contest judges as well: Justice Susan F. Hutchinson of Woodstock and the second appellate district; Retired Judge Stephen E. Walter, Grayslake; Karen A. Enright, Chicago, an ISBA Board of Governors member; Paul A. Meints, Bloomington, a longtime and active ISBA volunteer; and frequent IBJ contributor Beth C. Boggs of St. Louis.
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December 2, 2010 |
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December 1, 2010 |
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Theodore R. Scott, Jr. of Deerfield, passed away on Nov. 13. Mr. Scott was born in Mt. Vernon in 1924 and served in WWII as a B-24 navigator. On his 20th mission, he and his crew were shot down over West Hungary and became prisoners of war in Germany for 89 days. Mr. Scott graduated Phi Betta Kappa and earned his juris doctor from the University of Illinois. He became an intellectual property litigator spending much of his career as named partner in the firm of McDougall, Hersh & Scott in Chicago - which later merged with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Mr. Scott remained of counsel to Jones Day until 1998. Read the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune.
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November 30, 2010 |
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[caption id="attachment_16302" align="alignright" width="160" caption="Ilana Bamberger Spector"][/caption] The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Ilana Bamberger Spector has joined the Firm's Chicago office as an associate in the Health Law Group. While in law school she served as law clerk at the United States Department of Treasury and as a legal intern at the American Hospital Association. Prior to law school she worked as an analyst for Lehman Brothers in New York City where she primarily focused on securitization transactions. Ms. Spector earned her law degree, cum laude, from Chicago-Kent College of Law and her undergraduate degree, with distinction, in Finance, Investment and Banking with a certificate in Health Care Management from the University of Wisconsin. Quarles & Brady LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing from offices in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Chicago, Ill.; Naples and Tampa, Fla.; and Milwaukee and Madison, Wis. The Firm offers an array of legal services to corporate and individual clients that range from small entrepreneurial businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Additional information about the Firm may be found at www.quarles.com.
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November 30, 2010 |
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Angela Morrison, a member of the Commercial Litigation department, concentrates her practice on handling creditor’s rights matters, including complex commercial mortgage foreclosures. She regularly represents financial institutions and other lenders in resolving disputes arising out of contracts, commercial mortgages, notes, guarantees and other credit instruments. She is also experienced in litigating various other commercial litigation matters, including disputes arising out of employment relationships and real estate transactions. Ms. Morrison earned her B.A. in English with Distinction from the University of Illinois and her Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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November 30, 2010 |
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Robert J. Mangler, former village attorney for Wilmette and Evanston, passed away yesterday at the age of 80. Visitation for Mr. Mangler was scheduled from 4-9 p.m. Dec. 1 at the William H. Scott Funeral Home, 1100 Greenleaf Ave., in Wilmette. His funeral Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Dec. 2 at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, 524 Ninth St., Wilmette. Read the full obituary in the Pioneer Press.
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November 30, 2010 |
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Judge Gerald C. Bender, a co-founder of the Jewish Judges Association, passed away recently. Judge Bender was also a past president of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers. Read the full obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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November 24, 2010 |
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Former ISBA Director of Publications Virgil Everett Tipton Jr. passed away on Nov. 19 at Rosewood Care Center in Edwardsville. Mr. Tipton was a WWII veteran and received his journalism degree from the University of Missouri in 1948. He then moved to Springfield and began working at the State Journal-Register. He became editor of the Illinois Bar Journal in 1960, a position he held until 1982. Read the full obituary in the Springfield State Journal-Register.
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November 19, 2010 |
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Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP has announced that four new associates recently joined the firm:
- Joshua E. Bidzinski received his J.D. from Northern Illinois University College of Law in 2010 and his B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2007.
- Elizabeth A. McElaney received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 2010 and her B.A. from Boston College in 2004.
- Kristine C. Reveille received her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2010 and her B.A. from Northwestern University in 2006.
- Nathaniel S. Widell received his J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2010 and his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2004.
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November 18, 2010 |
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Longtime Rosemont village attorney Peter M. Rosenthal passed away last Monday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Mr. Rosenthal was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago Lab School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan. He joined the Ancel Glink law firm in Chicago, which specializes in municipal law. While there, he began representing local governments, including Rosemont and Fox River Grove. Mr. Rosenthal and several colleagues formed their own firm - Rosenthal, Murphey, Coblentz & Donahue - in 1987. Mr. Rosenthal worked closely with Donald E. Stephens, Rosemont's mayor from 1956 until his death in 2007. "Every major development and most contracts that are in existence today in the village are all things that Peter had his fingerprints on," said Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens. "He was involved in all of the redevelopment from the late 1970s on until the present, and that's pretty much a great majority of the redevelopment of Rosemont." Read the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune.
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November 17, 2010 |
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[caption id="attachment_16125" align="alignright" width="300" caption="From left to right: Andrea Kitamura, Development Coordinator for the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network; Ian Rexroad, Story Chapter Treasurer; Sierra Falter, Story Chapter Justice; and Ashley Steitz, Story Chapter Fundraising Chair."][/caption] The Joseph Story Law School Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity at DePaul University College of Law recently held its 6th Annual Founder's Day Auction. This event commemorated the 108th anniversary of the founding of the Chapter. In accordance with the fraternity's mission of service to the community, the students directed that a portion of the proceeds from the event be donated to the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network. At the conclusion of the event, a check for $1,800.00 was presented to the Network, an organization which not only administers the City of Chicago/State of Illinois 24-hour, toll-free Domestic Violence Help Line - which has assisted over 100,000 women and children in need since its inception in 1998 - but also spearheads advocacy efforts to improve the practices of the legal system in regards to domestic violence issues.
