November 2024 • Volume 112 • Number 11 • Page 46

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Solo & Small Firm Conference 2024

ISBA members met at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s on-campus conference center for two days of professional development.

This year’s Solo & Small Firm Conference took place on September 19 and 20 at the I Hotel and Conference Center on the southern end of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Members took in sessions on a broad range of content to boost their skills and practices. Dine-arounds and puppy breaks provided networking and destressing. And generous sponsors, including the ISBA Mutual Insurance Company, helped make the event possible. If you missed it, the content is available for purchase and viewing on-demand.

3 women in fron of the podium — From left to right, ISBA Third Vice-President Sarah Toney, Solo & Small Firm Conference Chair Diana Servos, and ISBA President Sonni Choi Williams.

woman with glasses and gray blazer — Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism’s DEI Manager Julia Roundtree Livingston was Thursday’s keynote speaker.

dog and man kissing — Barrington attorney Carlos Arteaga takes a puppy break courtesy of PawPrint Ministries.

two women standing in front of a podium — Melanie Leonard (left), president and CEO of Streamlined.Legal, discussed wrangling administrative tasks in a session moderated by Rachel Hernandez (right) of St. Charles-based Bruckner Hernandez Legal Solutions. Hernandez will be the Solo & Small Firm Conference Chair in 2025 and 2026.