The annual meeting of the McHenry County Bar Association will be conducted Tuesday, June 25, at Deeter's Restaurant in Woodstock. Call (815) 338-9539.
Northwest Suburban Bar
Ronald J. Nelson of Elk Grove Village (see photo above) will become president of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association during a dinner Thursday, June 13, at Rolling Green Country Club, Arlington Heights. Call (847) 259-7908.
A member of the ISBA Assembly, Nelson also is secretary of the Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Council and a member of the Trusts and Estates Section Council.
A President's Award for Distinguished Public Service will be presented to Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of the Cook County Circuit Court, who will install the new president.
Other incoming NWSBA officers are Dennis R. Favaro, executive vice president; Lauren G. Edidin and Thomas J. Ahern, vice presidents; Adra F. Campbell, treasurer, and Angela E. Peters, secretary. They will be installed by Presiding Judge Joseph J. Urso of the 3rd Municipal District.
Real Estate Lawyers
ISBA President-elect Loren S. Golden of Elgin will be guest speaker for an 8 a.m. breakfast meeting of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association on Wednesday, June 12, at the Holiday Inn, Rolling Meadows. Call (847) 593-5750.
St. Clair County Bar
Judge Milton S. Wharton of the 20th Circuit, a member of the Illinois Bar Foundation board and past chair of the Fellows, will be installed Friday, June 28, as president of the St. Clair County Bar Association. The event at the Clinton Hills Golf Course in Belleville will include a golf outing.
South Suburban Bar
The South Suburban Bar Association has scheduled a luncheon meeting with judges of Cook County's 6th Municipal District on Wednesday, June 19, at the Markham courthouse. Call President Thomas M. Britt, (708) 429-5400.
Nurse Attorneys
An open house for the Chicago Area Nurse Attorneys took place June 2 at the Wilmette home of Chicago attorney Catherine Coyne Reiter.
Trial Advocates
The Illinois chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates will conduct a Masters in Trial Seminar from 8:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Friday, June 28, at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Chicago. Call President James T. J. Keating at (312) 364-0080 for details.
U. of Illinois Law
The University of Illinois College of Law will hold alumni luncheons Wednesday, June 12, in the St. Louis area and Friday, June 21, in DuPage County. Call (217) 333-2628 for locations.
Winnebago County Bar
The annual dinner and business meeting of the Winnebago County Bar Association and Foundation will take place Tuesday, June 4, at Forest Hills Country Club, Rockford. Call (815) 964-4992.
A not-so-funny thing happened to ISBA President Tim Eaton on his way to be guest speaker for graduation ceremonies May 11 at the Southern Illinois University School of Law. High water levels caused by recent heavy rains slowed Eaton's train to a crawl, and he arrived hours after the ceremony was completed.
Eaton graduated from the SIU law school in 1977 and had looked forward to commemorating his 25th anniversary as a lawyer by speaking to the class of 2002.
Most other Illinois law school graduation ceremonies were conducted during May, but two are scheduled this month.
The University of Chicago will hold its ceremony for the entire graduating class at 10 a.m. in the quadrangle behind the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library.
The law school hooding ceremony will take place a half-hour later in Rockfeller Memorial Chapel, with Prof. Cass R. Sunstein as faculty speaker.
Supreme Court Justice Thomas L. Kilbride will speak to the graduating class of The John Marshall Law School during its ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 16, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel.
DePaul selects new dean
DePaul University has selected Glen Weissenberger to become dean of its College of Law next month. He succeeds Teree E. Foster, who resigned a year ago, and Wayne Lewis, who has been acting dean in the interim.
A 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School, Weissenberger is the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati. A faculty member since 1975, he also has been director of the university's Center for Studies in Professional Skills.
A former associate at the Cincinnati firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, he was of counsel to Lloyd & Weissenberger from 1981 to 1997. He has been a trustee of the Glenn M. Weaver Foundation and Institute of Law and Psychiatry since 1977.
Weissenberger is the author of "Weissenberger's Federal Evidence" and a companion work, "Weissenberger's Federal Evidence Courtroom Manual," which has been published annually since 1992. He has been editorial consultant for Anderson Publishing Co. since 1987, helping to develop its 150 law school division titles.
Faculty notes
The investiture ceremony of Charles Tabb of the University of Illinois College of Law as the Alice C. Campbell Professor took place April 5. A 1980 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, Tabb has been on the U.I. faculty since 1984.
The professorship is named for Alice Curtis Campbell of Los Angeles, a 1943 graduate and member of the University Foundation board, who was vice chair of the College of Law Centennial Council in 1996-96.
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Anita Alvarez, chief of special prosecutions for the Cook County state's attorney, will teach criminal procedure this fall as an adjunct faculty member at The John Marshall Law School. She is a 1986 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Judge Michael Kelly chose law over career as priest
Cook County Judge Michael J. Kelly died May 15 in his Chicago home at age 58. A 1974 graduate of The John Marshall Law School and a judge since 1988, he had served in the Law Division for 10 years.
Mr. Kelly had studied for the priesthood at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, but two months before his scheduled ordination in 1971 he decided to enter law school. He returned to the seminary in 1978 and left two years later to join the family firm of Kelly, Kelly & Kelly.
A founder of the parish council at St. Clement's Church, Mr. Kelly was an adviser to the pastor and an educator of adults who wanted to become Catholics. He sang the Gospel before Pope John Paul II and an audience of 200,000 in 1979 for a Mass in Grant Park.
Mr. Kelly was the son of Chicago attorney George G. Kelly, who died in 1989. Survivors include a sister, Maureen J. Kelly of Kelly, Kelly & Kelly, and a brother-in-law, Chicago attorney Maurice J. McCarthy.
Dawn Wallarab Conn
Former assistant Illinois attorney general Dawn Ann Wallarab Conn died April 7 at age 40 of Addison's disease in an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital. A native of Sparta, she was a graduate of the Washington University Law School.
After her marriage in 1991, Mrs. Conn was a public defender in San Diego, a prosecutor in Monterey, Calif., and an assistant district attorney in Norfolk, Va., before retiring in 1994 to raise a child.
Neil Flanagin
Chicago attorney Neil Flanagin, a resident of Winnetka, died May 15 at age 71 of cancer in Evanston Hospital. He was of counsel to Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, where he had been a partner until 1995.
A 1956 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Flanagin served in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps in Washington, D.C., was became an attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Returning to Chicago in 1960, he joined Leibman, Williams, Bennett, Baird & Minow and became a partner in 1966. The firm merged with Sidley & Austin in 1972, and Mr. Flanagin helped expand the firm's international practice by opening an office in London.
A Fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel, Mr. Flanagin served on the American Bar Association Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities and the Chicago Bar Association Securities Law Committee.
He also served on International Bar Association Committees on Business Organizations and Securities, and was a director of the Dr. Scholl Foundation for more than 20 years.
Joseph Griffin
Retired attorney Joseph P. Griffin, who was of counsel to the Palos Hills firm of Griffin & Gallagher, died May 3 at age 86 of heart failure in his Palos Heights home.
A 1938 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Griffin served during World War II on a Navy minesweeper in the Pacific and North Atlantic. After the war he worked for the secretary of state until 1952.
In private practice since 1953, Mr. Griffin was a commissioner of the Court of Claims from 1963 until the mid-1990s. He was a member of the state Democratic Central Committee from 1958 until the 1980s and served as treasurer.
Ronald Gullstrand
Retired Aurora attorney Ronald A. Gullstrand, a resident of Paw Paw, died April 4 at age 65 in a Madison, Wis., hospital. He was a 1965 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a past exalted ruler of the Elks Club of Aurora.
Crane Hauser
Retired Chicago attorney and certified public accountant Crane Cheshire Hauser died May 17 at age 79 of congestive heart failure. A former partner in Winston & Strawn, he retired in 1989.
A 1950 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law after Army service during World War II, Mr. Hauser was a tax attorney at the law firm for all but two years from 1961 to 1963 as chief legal counsel to the Internal Revenue Service and assistant general counsel for the Treasury Department.
In retirement, Mr. Hauser enrolled in the Great Books program at the University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies and graduated in 1993.
John Hood
John W. Hood, manager of industrial relations for the Sloan Valve Co. in Franklin Park, died May 12 at age 50 of brain cancer in his Wood Dale home. A 1983 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he had previous solo practices in Harwood Heights and Tinley Park.
Ira Kipnis
Retired Chicago attorney Ira A. Kipnis, former corporate counsel for Jupiter Realty Corp., died May 5 at age 81 if cancer. He was a 1051 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School after receiving a doctorate in history in 1950.
A music student at Northwestern University, where he received a master's degree before service during World War II in the Army Signal Corps, Mr. Kipnis taught political science, American history and constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He received two Quantrell Awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Author of "The American Socialist Movement, 1897-1912" in 1952, he invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senate hearing in 1953 rather than testify about the political views of colleagues. He subsequently resigned from the faculty and entered law school.
Mr. Kipnis retired in the early 1990s but resumed a real estate law practice in 1993 after the death of his wife.
Edward Koza
Retired Cook County Municipal Court judge Edward M. Koza. a past president of the Advocates Society of Lawyers, died April 27 at age 92 of pulmonary emphysema in Peoria, Ariz. He was a resident of Sun City.
A graduate of the Kent College of Law, Mr. Koza opened a downtown practice and in 1947 was appointed a master in chancery in Superior Court. He was elected to the Municipal Court in 1955.
He left the bench after being indicted in 1957 for obstructing a grand jury investigation into ambulance chasing but was found not guilty in 1959. He returned to private practice and also was general counsel for the Polish Roman Catholic Union from 1970 to 1982.
John Lennon
Retired Chicago attorney and police department official John B. Lennon died May 6 at age 87 after cancer surgery. After graduating from the DePaul University College of Law in the 1930s, he became a policeman.
During the 1940s, Mr. Lennon was a legal advocate for the department. He subsequently became commander of the Town Hall District, chief of the Detective Division and head of the north section of the Youth Division.
Retiring in 1972, Mr. Lennon worked for a slot machine manufacturer for 10 years and continued to be a mentor and adviser to police officers.
Honoratus Lopez
Chicago attorney Honoratus Lopez, a founder of the Mexican American Lawyers Association, died May 17 at age 71. A 1954 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he began his legal career with the Zurich Insurance Co.
After an association with August Mangoni, Mr. Lopez joined Manuel Reyes in a law practice in the growing Mexican community of the Pilsen neighborhood. He also was a commissioner of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission.