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October 4, 2022 | CLE
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October 3, 2022 | Practice News
Of the many ways the Illinois State Bar Association serves the public, judicial evaluations, high school mock trial competitions, and providing the public with legal information tops them all. But as the October Illinois Bar Journal cover story (“Public Service and the ISBA”) shows, there is much, much more. -
September 30, 2022 | Practice News
In accordance with Supreme Court Rule 3 (Rulemaking Procedures), you are hereby notified that the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee will hold a virtual public hearing on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, via the Zoom video conference platform, with simultaneous livestreaming (access the livestream). Due to unforeseen circumstances, the hearing will now be conducted completely virtually, and there will be no option for in-person attendance. -
September 29, 2022 | Events
In Arlington Heights, we honored ISBA President 2021-22, Anna P. Krolikowska, and IBF President 2020-22, Lisa M. Nyuli, for their service to the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Foundation, and the legal community on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. -
September 28, 2022 | Practice News
Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the nine Illinois Supreme Court opinions handed down Thursday, September 22.1 comment (Most recent September 30, 2022) -
September 27, 2022 | Practice NewsThe Illinois Supreme Court Pretrial Implementation Task Force (Task Force) will host a town hall meeting on September 29 at noon via Zoom.
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September 26, 2022 | Practice News
The Illinois Supreme Court announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders on September 21, 2022. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law. -
September 26, 2022 | CLE
Join us online for this introductory look at bankruptcy from the debtor’s perspective. -
September 26, 2022 | Practice News
It is not uncommon for a court opinion to be correct in describing the forest, but perhaps not every tree. Such may have happened with the opinion issued by the Second District Appellate Court in Naughton v. Pfaff, writes Dennis A. Rendleman in his September Illinois Bar Journal article, “A Client or Not a Client? That Is the Question.” The Naughton ruling has made Illinois an outlier, Rendleman states, since the prevailing interpretation in the U.S. is that a referring lawyer has an attorney-client relationship with the referred individual when making a referral to a receiving lawyer. Being one’s client is a prerequisite to the establishment of a referral agreement between the referring lawyer, the client, and the receiving lawyer. -
September 22, 2022 | CLE
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