Howard E. Japlon has been appointed senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of the Schneider Electric North American Operating Division, Palatine. He was appointed deputy general counsel for Schneider in 2003 after eight years as assistant general counsel.
Elected partners at Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, are David S. Baffa, Christopher J. DeGroff, William F. Dugan and S. Leigh Jeter, labor and employment; Scott A. Carlson, complex litigation; Daniel F. Lanciloti, litigation, and David L. Newman, intellectual property.
Fred Payne has been appointed director of employment practices liability insurance defense at Wessels & Pautsch, St. Charles. He has headed the firm's Indianapolis office since it opened a year ago.
New associates at Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, include John A. Luburic, Gregory M. Smith and Bryan P. Sugar.
Appellate justice Scariano was honored as legislator
By Stephen Anderson
Tony Scariano always drew a crowd. During meetings of the Justinian Society and Appellate Lawyers Association, he combined his frequent expressions of opinion on issues of the day with retrospect and levity.
"There were no limits to his ideas, and he always displayed a great sense of humor and joie de vivre," longtime friend and legislative colleague Abner Mikva told a Chicago Tribune reporter.
Anthony Scariano of Chicago, a retired Appellate Court justice and longtime public servant, died April 17 at age 86 in Northwestern Memorial Hospital after a stroke.
The son of Sicilian immigrants who held several jobs during the Depression, Mr. Scariano sold fruit and operated a newsstand in the Merchandise Mart while in school. A position as a guard in the U.S. Capitol allowed him to attend college in Washington, D.C.
Drafted into the Army after failing a Marine Corps physical, Mr. Scariano served in intelligence with the Office of Strategic Services in Northern Italy because of his fluency in the Italian and Sicilian languages.
Returning to Washington after the war, he studied law at Georgetown University and graduated in 1948. He was an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago from 1949 to 1954 and head of its Civil Division.
In 1956, Mr. Scariano was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, and he received six Best Legislator Awards during his eight terms. Legislation he sponsored created the Open Meetings Act and the Illinois Crime Commission.
He was so well known as an independent state legislator that he ran third on the 1964 at-large, "bedsheet ballot" for the House. Only Adlai Stevenson and Earl Eisenhower, two powerful political figures at that time, received more votes.
After losing a campaign for Illinois Senate in 1972, Mr. Scariano was named chair of the Illinois Racing Board, serving until 1977. He was appointed to the Appellate Court in 1985 and elected in 1986, and he retired at the end of his 10-year term.
In addition to being of counsel to his Chicago firm, Scariano, Himes & Petrarca, he chaired the Northern District Nominating Commission on federal judicial candidates for three years and was an arbitrator. He wrote a monthly column in Fra Noi on the origin of Italian surnames.
Frequently honored for diligence, integrity and dedication to his cultural roots, Mr. Scariano was named Man of the Year by the Justinian Society, the Gregorians and the Italian Cultural Center, and he was given the Sicilian-American Cultural Association Medal of Honor.
He also received a Freedom of Information Award from the Chicago Headline Club, an Israel Service Award, a Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, a Clarence Darrow Humanitarian Award, and recognition from the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
"He loved us, he inspired us, he laughed with us, and he encouraged us to the heights of our ambition," Justinian Society past president Richard Caifano said. "He urged us to learn more about what we are and about those whose love and sacrifice brought us to the work we cherish."
Survivors include a son, Anthony G. Scariano, who is a partner in the Scariano law firm.
Claude Davis
Retired Jersey County judge Claude J. Davis died March 24 at age 82 of Alzheimer's disease in Jersey Community Hospital. A 1948 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, he was honored in 1998 as an ISBA Senior Counsellor.
Mr. Davis began his law practice with DuHadway & Suddes, which became successively Suddes & Davis and Davis & Wittman. He was elected in 1952 to the first of four terms as Jersey County state's attorney, and he was a 7th Circuit judge from 1984 to 1990.
A past president of the Jersey County Bar Association, Mr. Davis also headed the Jerseyville Jaycees and Lions Club. He was a founder of Westlake Country Club and a trustee of First Presbyterian Church.
Walter Dudek
Walter A. Dudek, a 1946 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, died April 22 at age 82 in Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, from a head injury suffered in a fall. Mr. Dudek was an assistant manager of the Conrad Hilton Hotel for many years and head of security during the tumultuous 1968 Democrat Convention.
Raymond Eckersall
Roselle attorney Raymond A. Eckersall Jr. died recently at age 66. A 1968 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was a member of the First National Bank Trust Department for 34 years. He was a past president of Medinah Country Club.
Bruce Fawell
Bruce R. Fawell of Wheaton, retired chief judge of the 18th Circuit, died April 21 at age 76 after a stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
A 1952 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he became a county judge in 1964, a circuit judge in 1975 and chief judge in 1981. He left the bench in 1984.
Survivors include his wife, M. Terese Fawell; two brothers, former congressman Harris W. Fawell of Naperville and Thomas Fawell, former executive director of the DuPage Airport Authority, and a son, Jeffrey B. Fawell of Fawell & Associates, Wheaton.
James Forkins
James Marchese Forkins Sr., professor emeritus of the Loyola University School of Law, died April 15 at age 85 in his Chicago home of complications from a dissected aorta.
A 1947 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1949, Mr. Forkins had served with the Army Air Corps in the Canal Zone during World War II.
He joined the Loyola law faculty in 1947. During his 27 years there, he helped create a family law curriculum and served for a time as the university's general counsel.
Mr. Forkins left Loyola in 1974 for the firm of Bentley, DuCanto, Silvestri, Forkins & Doss. He later headed the matrimonial law practice at Schiff, Hardin & Waite. He returned to Loyola in 1981 and left in 1988 to practice with Owen Doss. He retired in 1993.
A founder of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 1962, Mr. Forkins was its president from 1970 to 1973. He also was a founding fellow of the academy. He was professor-reporter for the Illinois Judicial Conference from 1970 to 1988.
Honored as an ISBA Senior Counsellor in 1997, Mr. Forkins received a Medal of Excellence from the Loyola law alumni in 1975 and a Silver Anniversary Award from the AAML in 1987.
Gregg Grimsley
Additional information has been received about Gregg N. Grimsley, a 1976 graduate of the Vanderbilt University Law School whose death March at age 52 was reported in the April issue of the ISBA Bar News.
A Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation, Mr. Grimsley served on the ISBA Assembly from 1988 to 1992, and chaired the Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law Section Council in 1988-89. He received a Lincoln Legal Writing Award in 1982.
Joseph Lascaro
Chicago attorney Joseph N. Lascaro died April 27 at age 66. He was a 1965 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law.
Stanley Marion
South Holland attorney Stanley W. Marion (Marynowski) died March 4 at age 92 of Creuzfeld Jacob brain disease. A 1942 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he served in Army Intelligence during World War II, retiring as a major. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1947.
William McGlynn
Cook County Associate Judge William Francis McGlynn died April 10 at age 55 of cancer in his Lemont home. A former Chicago police officer, he was a 1981 honors graduate of the John Marshall Law School.
After five years as an assistant state's attorney, Mr. McGlynn joined Beerman, Swerdlove, Woloshin, Baretzky & Berkson, and in 1988 became a partner in Callahan, Fitzpatrick, Lakoma & McGlynn. Appointed an associate judge in 1999, he was assigned to the 6th Municipal District Courthouse in Markham in 2001.
John McGuinnis
Commercial real estate broker and former antitrust lawyer John P. McGuinnis died April 1 at age 57 of cardiac arrhythmia while bicycling in Chicago's Lincoln Park.
A 1974 graduate of the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco whose studies were interrupted by Army service in Vietman, Mr. McGuinnis joined the antitrust litigation practice at Gardner, Carton & Douglas in Chicago.
After several years, he joined Arthur Rubloff & Co. as a real estate broker and in 1989 moved to Hiffman Schaffer Real Estate. He became a founder and executive vice president of NAI Hiffman, an industrial, office and retail brokerage in Oakbrook Terrace.
Claude Metzler
Claude Greene Metzler of Evanston, a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, died April 14 at age 85. He worked for several years at Commerce Clearing House.
Marie Monahan
Marie Adornetto Monahan, an associate professor at The John Marshall Law School and director of its externship program, died April 11 at age 53 of cancer in her Riverside home.
The daughter of a New York attorney, Mrs. Monahan graduated in 1981 from the DePaul University College of Law while pursuing a doctorate in the classics at Northwestern University. She completed her dissertation and received the degree in 1986.
After law school, Mrs. Monahan was a law clerk to appellate justice William S. White until 1984, when she joined the litigation department at Baker & McKenzie. She became a visiting professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law in 1988.
In 1989, Mrs. Monahan entered the John Marshall faculty as an assistant professor and later was promoted to associate professor. She became entrance director in 1992.
She was appointed to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Hearing Board in 1996, and she served on the District 96 school board.
Survivors include her father-in-law, Peter A. Monahan of Alholm, Monahan, Klauke, Hay & Oldenburg, Chicago.
Frederic Novy
Glenview attorney Frederic G. Novy, who was an official of several Chicago-area financial institutions, died April 30 at age 65 in his home of liver cancer.
A 1964 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law, Mr. Novy was a title examiner with Chicago Title and Trust for a year before joining the law practice of John Demling. In 1968, he was a founder of Garvey & Novy, which concentrated on representing savings and loan associations.
When he became president of Cragin Federal Bank for Savings in 1990, Mr. Novy and several colleagues joined the firm that became Rock, Fusco & Garvey. In 1996, he became president of Liberty Federal Bank for Savings, and when it merged with Hinsdale Federal Bank for Savings as Alliance Bancorp, he was named board chair.
Mr. Novy served on the Illinois Racing Board and was chief hearing officer for the Chicago Department of Personnel for many years.
A. Paul Rosche
Retired Hillsboro attorney Alfred Paul Rosche Jr. died March 21 at age 65 in his home at Holmes Beach, Fla. A 1963 graduate of the Washington University School of Law, he was Montgomery County state's attorney from 1968 to 1972.
In Florida, "Captain Paul" Rosche operated a charter fishing boat, "ZuluMaMa," and was captain of the research vessel, "Eugenie Clark," for Mote Marine.
Arthur Solomon
Retired Chicago attorney Arthur M. Solomon died April 7 at age 70 in his Wilmette home of cancer. He was counsel to the husband in a landmark 1980 child custody case, Jarrett v. Jarrett, in the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts.
After service as a Navy lieutenant in Japan and the Aleutians, Mr. Solomon graduated in 1961 from the University of Chicago Law School. He formed the partnership of Solomon & Behrendt in 1965.
An amateur thespian who had roles in more than 20 productions, Mr. Solomon took acting lessons at Players Workshop in the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts and classes at Second City.
William South
Retired 1st Circuit Judge William H. South, formerly of Carbondale, died March 29 at age 81 in Roswell, Ga., where he had moved recently after 10 years in Fort Myers, Fla.
A 1950 graduate of the Lincoln College of Law, Mr. South began practicing law in Carmi and served as White County state's attorney. He was an assistant Illinois attorney general until 1960, and he opened a practice in Carbondale in 1961.
Mr. South was elected to the circuit court in 1980 and retired in 1988.
Joseph Stein
Retired Chicago attorney Joseph Stein died March 8 at age 85 in his home at Fort Sheridan near Highwood. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he served in the Army Judge Advocate Division during World War II.
Mr. Stein joined Rothbart & Rosenfield, which became Rothbart, Stein & Moran and eventually Stein & Moran. A devoted sailor, he was commodore of the North Shore Yacht Club for three years.
Alvin Weinstein
Northfield attorney Alvin I. Weinstein, who practiced in Chicago for more than 60 years, died April 14 at age 87 of prostate cancer in his Scottsdale, Ariz., home.
An accountant before he graduated in 1939 from the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Weinstein began a solo practice in taxation and trusts and estates. He later was of counsel to Kahn & Facktor.
Mr. Weinstein was a founder of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. He owned several race horses, including one that won the Illinois Heritage Race at Balmoral Park in 1988.
Jerome Wielgus
Retired Chicago attorney Jerome J. Wielgus died April 21 at age 88. A 1943 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he was an attorney with Chicago Title and Trust for 48 years.