The North Suburban Bar Association will hear a program on Medicare during a dinner meeting Tuesday, March 13, in the Terrace Restaurant at the Wilmette Country Club. Call President Rachel Runnels at (847) 657-0973.
Rock Island County Bar
New officers of the Rock Island County Bar Association are William T. Phares of Phares & Chikris, East Moline, president; F. Jack Nathan, vice president, and Stephen G. Andich, secretary-treasurer.
Sangamon County Bar
Saturday, March 3, is the date set for the annual Sangamon County Bar Association Gridiron Show at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Springfield. Call Shirley Vinson, (217) 753-6365.
Will County Bar
Justice Thomas L. Kilbride of the Illinois Supreme Court will speak on "Reflections of a New Justice" during a luncheon meeting of the Will County Bar Association on Thursday, Feb. 22, at Al's Steak House in Joliet. Call Sharyl Matthews, (815) 726-0383, by Feb. 19 for reservations.
Women's Bar of Illinois
A trip to Springfield lobby for or against legislation that affects women is being planned by the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, along with the Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago and the ISBA Committee on Women and the Law.
Tentative dates under consideration are Thursday, April 19, and Thursday, May 3. For more information, call WBAI past president Sharon Eiseman at (312) 782-7606 or Ann Breen-Greco at (773) 539-8468.
Trial lawyer Gates Clancy inspired many in practice
Geneva trial lawyer Gates White Clancy, a well-known litigator in courthouses throughout northern Illinois, died Jan. 21 at age 91. He was the son of Riverside attorney and justice of the peace John D. Clancy and the progenitor of two more generations of Illinois lawyers.
A 1934 night school graduate of The John Marshall Law School, Mr. Clancy repossessed cars for an insurance service while studying law. He represented clients for more than five decades and created case law in areas such as premises liability during some 400 trials from his offices in Chicago and Geneva.
Among the scores of lawyers he helped learn trial practice and become established in the legal community as associates and adversaries are retired justices John L. Nickels and James Quetsch.
"An entire generation of trial lawyers marked their coming of age by having a trial with Gates Clancy," said his grandson, Michael W. Clancy, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors and Special Committee on ISBA Facilities.
Other members of the Clancy Law Offices in St. Charles are Gate Clancy's son, Wendell W. Clancy, and a granddaughter, Susan Clancy Boles. Another grandson, Timothy G. Clancy, is an attorney in Cleveland.
Mr. Clancy's sister married Wheaton attorney Charles Popejoy, whose son, Kenneth L. Popejoy, is an associate judge of the 18th Circuit.
Mr. Clancy's brother, former attorney John D. "Jack" Clancy, had a son, Kent J. Clancy, who is a partner in a San Francisco firm.
Judge Adcock served 10 years
Judge Robert Henry Adcock of the 13th Circuit in Grundy County died Feb. 1 at age 62 of cancer in a Chicago hospital. He was a 1963 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.
Mr. Adcock began practice as an associate with the Morris firm of Root & Wilder, and he became a partner in 1968. In 1971, he opened his own office and later formed the partnership of Adcock & Massino.
Appointed an associate judge in 1990, Mr. Adcock was elected to the circuit court in 1992 and retained in 1998.
Survivors include a daughter, assistant Illinois attorney general Meghan Maine of Chicago.
Charles Griffin
Chicago attorney Charles J. Griffin Jr., a Hinsdale resident, died Jan. 26 at age 62 of cancer. He was a partner in Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon and a 1963 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School.
John Gunn
Belleville attorney John B. Gunn died Jan. 8 at age 67. A partner in Walker & Williams, he was a 1962 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law after service in the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps.
Mr. Gunn was a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Warren Landsman
Retired Chicago attorney and arbitrator Warren P. Landsman of Evanston died in January at age 81. He was a 1947 graduate of the Northwestern University College of Law.
Joseph Lederleitner
Chicago attorney Joseph B. Lederleitner died in January at age 78. A 1950 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1951, he was of counsel to Pretzel & Stouffer and a former partner.
An instructor at The John Marshall Law School, Mr. Lederleitner served from 1968 to 1975 on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions Civil.
Bruce Minier
Former Sleepy Hollow attorney Bruce A. Minier died Jan. 1 at age 59 in an Elgin care center. He was a 1978 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law.
Herman Moses
Retired Chicago attorney Herman H. Moses died Jan. 20 at age 81 of respiratory failure in Palm Springs, Calif. A 1942 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was a Navy lieutenant commander on the USS Warhawk in the South Pacific during World War II.
A former assistant Chicago corporation counsel, Mr. Moses had a solo practice on the South Side and was a past president of the South Chicago Bar Association. He retired in 1984 and moved to Cathedral City, Calif.
Mr. Moses was past commander of the Jewish War Veterans of Illinois and national commander in 1977, when he organized a non-violent protest against a proposed march in Skokie by the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party.
Hy Nickow
Attorney and certified public accountant Hy Nickow, president of General Loose Leaf Bindery in Waukegan, died in January. A veteran of military service during World War II and a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1950 but never registered to practice.
His son, attorney Glenn Nickow, also is an official of General Loose Leaf Bindery.
Michael Shore
Retired Peoria attorney Michael A. Shore died Jan. 29 at age 92 in San Diego, Calif. He was a 1932 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.
Mr. Shore was a Navy lieutenant during World War II and Peoria County state's attorney from 1948 to 1952. He retired from practice in 1974 and moved to California.
Survivors include a daughter, Northbrook attorney Barbara S. Remish; grandchildren Nancy A. Tishler and John D. Tishler, both California attorneys, and a son-in-law, Louis B. Tishler Jr. of Tishler & Wald, Chicago.
Ronald Urban
Chicago attorney Ronald F. Urban of Christian Roge & Associates died Nov. 24 at age 62 in an Oak Park hospital. He was a 1976 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.
An Oak Park resident, Mr. Urban was a civil engineer and project manager for 35 years, retiring in 1997.
Florence Weinberg
Retired attorney Florence Koenigsberg Weiner, formerly of Wilmette, died Jan. 8 at age 93 in her Champaign home. A 1931 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, she was a founding member of the North Shore Mental Health Board.
Mrs. Weinberg served on the Wilmette Library Board and was a 50-year member of the League of Women Voters.
Lyndon Whitlock
Retired corporate attorney Lyndon Johnson Whitlock III died Jan. 30 at age 70. A 1955 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he was with the Trans Union Corp. and Velsicol Chemical. Since 1994, Mr. Whitlock had been a volunteer with the Executive Service Corps.
Ruth Williams
Ruth C. Williams, who retired in 1986 from the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, died Jan. 25 at age 82 of respiratory failure in a Burbank nursing center.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a 1946 graduate of the Cleveland State University Law School, Mrs. Williams was the second black woman to pass the Ohio bar exam. In 1947, she moved to Chicago, where her husband was a director of the Chicago Urban League.
Joining the mental health department in 1951 as a caseworker, Mrs. Williams became an administrator in the 1970s and was director of services in Chicago's West and South Sides by 1980. She also was director of Catalyst for Youth, a federally funded program for disadvantaged high school students to attend college.
In recognition of her work on behalf of the mentally disabled, the Human Resource Development Institute established the Ruth C. Williams Children's Program, and the Community Mental Health Council operates the Ruth C. Williams Crisis House.
Mrs. Williams received an Illinois Mental Health Association Lifetime Achievement Award, and she was recognized by the Royal Society of Health in London for contributions to the field of mental retardation.
LeRoy Winer
Former Cook County judge LeRoy Winer died Jan. 27 at age 95 in a Lincolnshire senior care center. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1927, he was a hearing officer with the Illinois Commerce Commission for several years.
During World War II, Mr. Winer was an Army staff sergeant in the Pacific Theater. He was an associate judge in the 1st and 5th Municipal Districts in the 1960s.
After leaving the bench, he was a partner in Winer & Winer with his son, Sherwin M. Winer, until 1995. A daughter, Barbara S. Winer, formerly with Reuben & Proctor, is of counsel to the firm.
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