1:45 p.m. Commercial Drivers License Issues, with section council member Louis A. Berns of Favil David Berns & Associates, Northlake.
2:30 p.m. Search and Seizure of Motor Vehicles, with Judge Frederic B. Rodgers of Boulder, Colo.
The first day of the conference will conclude with a 6 p.m. reception and dinner at the Hotel Pere Marquette.
At 9 a.m. Friday, welcoming remarks will be provided by 10th Circuit Chief Judge John A. Barra, Bradley University President David C. Broski, and Barbara A. Mangler, assistant corporation counsel of the Village of Skokie.
9:15 a.m. DUI and Summary Suspension, a panel discussion with James J. Ahern of Ahern, Maloney & Moran, Skokie, as moderator.
Panelists are section council members Thomas M. Moran of Ahern, Maloney & Moran, Skokie, and 18th Circuit Judge Mark W. Dwyer, and Charles W. Smith of Smith & La Luzerne, Waukegan.
11 a.m. Admissibility of Speed Check Evidence, with Richard N. Williams, corporation counsel of the Village of Hoffman Estates.
11:45 a.m. Non-alcohol Traffic Related Moving Violations, with Sangamon County State's Attorney John Schmidt of Springfield.
1 p.m. Remarks by George Burnetti of Libertyville.
1:15 p.m. 2003-04 Traffic Related Decision, with Cook County Judge Daniel M. Locallo of Chicago, a member of the ISBA Criminal Justice Section Council.
Conference fees are $75 in advance, through May 28, and $90 for walk-ins. That includes conference materials, two breakfasts, two lunches, the reception and dinner, and lodging for two nights in university housing. Conference materials may be purchased separately for $50.
For more information or to obtain a registration form, call Charmin Hibberd, director of conference facilities, at (309) 677-3056.
Downstate lawyers serving on House judiciary panels
State Representatives John E. Bradley (D-Marion) and Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) are downstate lawyers who are serving their first terms in the Illinois General Assembly.
"It has been helpful to have John and Chapin serving on the Judiciary I Committee (Civil), said ISBA legislative counsel Daniel L. Houlihan of Chicago. "They contribute their practical legal experience to the committee's deliberation of bills.
Houlihan added that these legislators "have actually litigated cases governed by the statutes that some of these bills amend, which is a big help in trying to prevent unintended consequences in legislation."
Rep. Bradley was appointed to fill the vacancy that was created by the appointment of Gary Forby to the Illinois Senate. He is of counsel to the Marion law firm of Mitchell & Mitchell and has a law degree from the University of Illinois and a B.A. in government from the University of Texas.
Bradley has been active in several local organizations, including REDCO, Williamson County's economic development group; the Marion Rotary Club, and the Williamson County Airport Authority Board. He lives in Marion with his wife, Amy, and their son, Jackson.
Rep. Rose was elected from the 110th District in November 2002. A former Champaign County assistant state's attorney, he also serves on the House Judiciary II Committee that concentrates on criminal law and juvenile justice issues. He has both a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Illinois.
Rose has been active in such local organizations as the Champaign County Grove Committee, which is dedicated to reforesting previously strip-mined lands, and the Mahomet Lions Club. He lives in Mahomet with wife, Camille, and their son, Jack.
June 1 is deadline for Gertz nominees
The deadline for nominations for the fourth annual Elmer Gertz Award is Tuesday, June 1. To obtain a nomination form or additional information, call general counsel Mary T. McDermott in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office, (312) 726-8775.
The ISBA Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section and the Blind Service Association will present the award during a luncheon Nov. 18 in the 410 Club of the Wrigley Building. Chicago attorney and alderman Edward Burke will be the keynote speaker.
ISBA President Terrence J. Lavin of Chicago heads a cable television panel that next month will discuss the public image of the lawyer and the role of news media in reporting legal news.
The taped program, titled "The Lawyer," will be broadcast at 10 p.m. Tuesdays on Chicago Access Network channel 21. Part one will air June 1, June 15 and June 29, and part two on June 8 and June 22.
The panel moderator is Martin A. Dolan of Dolan & Shannon, Chicago, chair of the Tort Law Section Council and member of the Committee on Cable TV Programming.
Other panelists are past president Cheryl I. Niro of Quinlan & Carroll, Chicago; Illinois Bar Foundation President Warren Lupel of Katz, Randall, Weinberg & Richmond, Chicago, and Bernard M. Judge, editor of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
The summer golf season has begun for bar associations and other law-related organizations. The following dates have been announced.
MAY 26 (Wednesday) DECATUR Decatur Bar Association golf outing, with 1 p.m. shotgun start, followed by 5 p.m. reception and election of officers. Call Steve Langhoff, (217) 422-2170.
MAY 28 (Friday) LASALLE Prairie State Legal Services benefit golf outing for Campaign for Legal Services at Senica's Oak Ridge Golf Course, with 11 a.m. shotgun start. Call Shelly Vescogni, (815) 220-0900.
JUNE 3 (Thursday) NORMAL Illinois Shakespeare Festival 4th annual John Stevens Golf Outing in memory of former ISBA Assembly member, with 12 noon shotgun start, at Illinois State University Golf Course. Call (309) 438-5732.
JUNE 4 (Friday) OAK BROOK Illinois Trial Lawyers Association 49th annual golf outing at Oak Brook Hills Resort, followed by installation banquet. Call (800) 252-8501.
JUNE 7 (Monday) CHICAGO Justinian Society golf outing at Ridgemoor Country Club, with dinner speech by Chief Judge Timothy Evans; tee times 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Call John Sciaccotta, (312) 836-4181.
JUNE 11 (Friday) WILMINGTON Will County Bar Association golf outing at Cinder Ridge Country Club, with 1 p.m. shotgun start. Call (815) 726-0383.
JUNE 11 (Friday) OKAWVILLE Wash-ington County Bar Association golf outing at Spring Valley Golf Course, followed by evening festivities at the home of Kevin Stine. Call Bill DeMoss, (618) 327-8241.
JUNE 18 (Friday) BENSENVILLE Nordic Law Club 4th annual Lutefisk Open golf outing at White Pines Golf Course, with 11 a.m. shotgun start. Call Patricia Oakley, (708) 923-6760.
JUNE 21 (Monday) LEMONT Youth Outreach Services golf outing at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club; 6:30 a.m. breakfast, 7:30 a.m. shotgun start. Call Barbara Schwarz, (773) 777-7112, ext. 281.
JUNE 24 (Thursday) BENSENVILLE - Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation 3rd annual Golf Fore Justice outing at White Pines Golf Course, with 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. Call Phil Mohr, (312) 332-3528.
Tyrone Fahner, Mayer Brown to receive Bernardin Award
The Chicago Legal Clinic will present a Cardinal Bernardin Award to Chicago attorney Tyrone Fahner during its annual dinner Friday, May 21, at the Chicago Hilton Hotel and Towers.
Fahner, a former Illinois attorney general who chairs Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, will be honored for advocating protection of the rights of battered women, supporting environmental causes, and providing pro bono legal services during clemency hearings. He has made pro bono representation a fundamental part of the law firm's culture.
Exelon, parent corporation of Commonwealth Edison, will receive the clinic's Pro Bono Law Firm Award, which has been renamed in memory of founding board member and past president Charles J. O'Laughlin.
The Exelon legal department encourages its members and outside counsel to provide free services to the indigent. More than 800 hours of pro bono representation and 2,600 hours of other community service have resulted during the past year.
Chicago attorney Bess Schenkler will be honored as Volunteer of the Year for recording 1,250 hours in pursuing equal environmental quality cases in recent years. At the Northwestern University School of Law, which she attended, Schenkler teaches an environmental seminar based on Chicago Legal Clinic cases.
Judge William J. Bauer of the U.S. Court of Appeals will be master of ceremonies for the event, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception. Awards will be presented at 6:20 p.m. by CBA President Michael K. Demetrio, and dinner will follow. Call Lisa Paulsen at (773) 731-1762 for reservations.
A tangible advantage of being a pro bono attorney for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation is the free noon-time educational programs that are offered in the ninth floor office at 100 N. LaSalle St. All volunteers are welcome to attend.
Upcoming examples are "How to Be a Guardian Ad Litem in a Minor Guardianship" with Patricia M. Nelson on Wednesday, May 26, and "Cheap, Easy Divorce Discovery" with Shannon Cobe on Tuesday, June 29.
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DuPage County lawyers in the Lending a Hand program will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27, in Burr Ridge for a work project at the Anna Emery Hanson Center of the Ray Graham Association for People with Disabilities.
The facility offers horsemanship lessons and trains dogs for service to the disabled. Call Eddie Wollenberg at (630) 668-2415 to sign up.
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Prairie State Legal Services will hold a golf outing Friday, May 28, to benefit the Campaign for Legal Services. The 11 a.m. shotgun start at Senica's Oak Ridge Golf Course in LaSalle will precede a buffet dinner and prizes obtained by Tony Raccuglia.
Call Shelly Vescogni at (815) 220-0900 for information or to register as an individual or a foursome. The fee is $125 per person.
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The Chicago Bar Foundation will present a My Hero Award and other honors on Thursday, June 3, to volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-a-Hand Program. Call Karina Ayala-Bermejo at (312) 554-2041 for details.
Traffic seminar speaker an ABA leader, lyricist
When Judge Frederic B. Rodgers speaks during the Illinois Traffic Court Conference in Peoria on June 3 don't be surprised if he carries a guitar to the lectern and sings his remarks.
According to conference coordinator Robert Mangler, the Colorado jurist is a lyricist at heart. Mangler has heard his version of "They Call Their Rights Miranda," a parody on the wind-called-Mariah verse from the musical, "Paint Your Wagon."
Rodgers' conference topic, Search and Seizure of Motor Vehicles, probably lends itself to any number of ditties from the fringes of country and rock music.
A Gilpin County Court judge since 1986 with prior experience as a magistrate in Juvenile Court, Rodgers serves on the faculty of the National Judicial College and is a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors and House of Delegates.
As a board member, he has been liaison to the National Conference of State Trial Judges and several ABA committees. He is a past chair of the Judicial Division and its Committee on Military Courts.
Rodgers has been prominent in vigilance by the judiciary against the virulent influence of jury nullification, where one or more rogue jurors can engineer the acquittal of a defendant who may have been proven guilty.
ISBA Senior Counsellors to be honored Sept. 9 in Chicago
Of the 54 Illinois lawyers who will be recognized later this year as ISBA Senior Counsellors, several already have received other honors for professional achievements during their 50-year careers.
Three of them Richard O. Hart of Benton, Eugene Crane and Nat Ozmon of Chicago have been inducted as Laureates of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers. Hart was lauded in 1999, Crane in 2001 and Ozmon in 2003.
Hart, a former state legislator, has been a member of the ISBA Board of Governors and chair of the Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund board. Crane chaired the Committee on Delivery of Legal Services, and Ozmon was chair of the Tort Law Section Council and president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
Arthur Gorov of Chicago received the ISBA General Practice Section Tradition of Excellence Award in 1999. Alfred E. Gallo, chair of The John Marshall Law School board, is a past president of the Justinian Society and the 2003 recipient of its Award of Excellence.
The list follows of Senior Counsellors who will be honored Sept. 9 during a luncheon in Chicago. Corrections and additions should be reported in writing to the ISBA Executive Director, 424 S. Second St., Springfield, Ill. 62701.
CHICAGO - Clyde O. Bowles, Gilbert A. Cornfield, Eugene Crane, John Duffy, David L. Fargo, Merrill A. Freed, Sheldon Gardner, Herbert A. Glieberman, Norman Gold, Arthur Gorov, Thomas J. Karacic, Bernard Kleinman, Myron Lieberman, James D. Murphy, John M. Murray, Nat Ozmon, David Pauker, Harvey Pyes, Manuel Solotke, Eileen Strang, Theodore Swain, Guerino Turano.
COOK COUNTY SUBURBS Harry DeBruyn, Orland Park; Alfred Gallo, Hillside; Fred R. Kaufmann, Burr Ridge; Leonard H. Lauter and Edward I. Rosen, Skokie; John J. O'Neil, DesPlaines; William John Quinn, Wilmette; Gerald Rubin, Northbrook; Kenneth Zak, Palatine.
COLLAR COUNTIES Randle Johnson, Elgin; Edward Jurow, St. Charles.
DOWNSTATE Hollis Benjamin, Peoria; Edward Booth and James A. Uhl, Decatur; Edward J. Enichen and Anthony R. Fabiano, Rockford; Charles Flack, Macomb; Richard O. Hart, Benton; James J. Herr, Pontiac; Curt C. Lindauer, Belleville; Warren Peters, Lincoln; Daniel G. Reese, Taylorville; Carl Stowe, Greenville; Curtis Trevor, Moline.
OUT OF STATE John Albrecht, Chesterfield, Mo.; Donald Beimdiek, St. Louis, Mo.; Charles Eklund, Fontana, Wis.; George Graziadei, Las Vegas, Nev.; Gerald L. Ippel, Carlsbad, Calif.; George Lundin, Seattle, Wash.; Richard Moore, Fairfax, Va.; M. A. Warshauer, Flat Rock, N.C.
The power of electronic publications archives
In the words of the nameless comic, "the movie is better than the book because you can't spill coffee on the movie."
We're not saying the electronic versions of ISBA periodicals are better than the paper copies that fit so nicely in your briefcase and feel so good to the touch. But they do help you get the most out of the magazine, newspaper and newsletter subscriptions that are important benefits of your ISBA membership.
More than five year's worth of section newsletters and Illinois Bar Journal issues are archived at www.isba.org, and the electronic ISBA Bar News goes back to 1996. All are keyword searchable, so if you're looking for an article on, say, tort reform or the Health Care Surrogate Act, you can find it in a few keystrokes.