As Sebastian Wright Garcia explains in his article, “A Refined Way To Protect Noncitizen Workers,” in the March Illinois Bar Journal, the Biden administration in 2023 formalized a program to prioritize noncitizen labor protections and to prosecute employers who violate labor and employment laws. To encourage the help of undocumented noncitizens in these cases, Wright Garcia notes, the administration began to implement a new guidance called Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement to promote the fair execution of labor laws.
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March 11, 2024 | Practice News
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March 8, 2024 | Practice News
A leading appellate attorney reviews the Illinois Supreme Court opinion handed down Friday, March 8. -
March 7, 2024 |
Practice News
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice is pleased to announce that it has six Illinois Supreme Court form sets posted for public comment. The Commission is seeking feedback and suggestions to improve these draft forms, which are available on the IL Courts’ website. The draft forms are:
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March 7, 2024 | Events
The ISBA Young Lawyers Division hosted Speed Networking and Wine Tasting events on Friday, March 1, 2024, at the ISBA Mutual Office, 20 South Clark Street, Chicago. Young lawyers, newly-admitted lawyers, and law students had the unique opportunity to be mentored by a myriad of prestigious lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals from all over the State of Illinois discussing a variety of topics such as landing their first job, different career paths, and ISBA membership benefits. -
March 7, 2024 | ISBA News
The 2024 first place winner of the Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest is Morgan Handwerker, an associate at Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, Chicago, who wrote “Practicing in a New World.” Morgan's article appeared in the February issue of the Illinois Bar Journal. -
March 7, 2024 | ISBA News
View Illinois State Bar Associations' judicial ratings by county for March 19's primary election. -
March 6, 2024 | Practice News
Arab American attorneys from across the United States are pleased to announce the formation and launch of the National Arab American Bar Association (NAABA). NAABA is the first national legal association formed of Arab American attorneys dedicated to the advancement of Arab American legal professionals and service to the broader Arab American community. -
March 4, 2024 | Practice News
The Illinois Supreme Court will leave the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield behind for a day and “ride the circuit” to hear oral arguments at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on March 21. -
March 4, 2024 | CLE
According to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, nearly 41 million acres of land is own (partially or fully) by foreign entitles. Current federal law does not regulate this land aside from requiring foreign buyers to register with the USDA. Don’t miss this in-depth discussion on the federal and state rules regulating foreign ownership of U.S. land, including the reporting requirements of foreign investments in U.S. businesses and agriculture. -
March 4, 2024 | Practice News
The assumption that gender expressions are fixed and fall into one of two categories correlating with one’s biological sex has given way to a gender-fluid world in which cohorts of people of all ages are transitioning between male and female identities or identifying as nonbinary or genderqueer (neither female nor male). As recounted in the March issue of the Illinois Bar Journal article, “Being a Pronoun Pro,” this has led to discussions and debates about pronouns in all types of settings—schools, health care institutions, and corporate boardrooms to name a few.