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Illinois Bar Journal | February 2007 Table of Contents
February 2007 • Volume 95 • Number 2
Practice News
66
Articles
82
Drafting tips to help lawyers help parents plan, financially and otherwise, for special-needs children.
86
Illinois courts are giving immunity to more types of parents on the one hand as they create exceptions to the parental immunity doctrine on the other.
90
The R.L.S. case created differing approaches to standing under the probate act and the IMDMA. The author analyzes the ruling.
96
The author argues that the Illinois consecutive sentencing statute violates the Sixth Amendment by allowing judges rather than jurors to make findings of fact that increase a defendant's punishment.
Columns
64
Recently initiated programs will serve ISBA lawyers for years to come.
102
A good opening statement will shape jurors' perception of the case.
104
The federal circuits are split and the seventh circuit is silent.
106
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially for lawyers.