Retired Rockford attorney William Barnes Powell died March 31 at age 89 in Rockford Memorial Hospital. He was a partner in Reno, Zahm, Folgate, Lindberg & Powell until his retirement in May 2002.
Born in Chicago, Mr. Powell was a 1937 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.
James Seaberry
Retired Chicago attorney James Jordan Seaberry died April 26 at age 85 of prostate cancer in his home. He had practiced for almost 40 years with Curtis F. McDowell before both men retired in 1985.
Born on a farm in Shuqualak, Miss., Mr. Seaberry and his family moved to Chicago in 1927 after their community was terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan.
He had received an undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and was studying law when he was called to action with the Army Air Corps during World War II. Mr. Seaberry received his law degree in 1946 and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1947.
The university's Black Law Students Association established a Seaberry Award in 1993 to honor lawyers who are committed to serving the African American community. The 2003 award was presented March 8 to Chicago attorney James Montgomery.
Survivors include a son, James J. Seaberry Jr., assistant general counsel in the General Litigation Department of the Chicago Board of Education.
Carl Swanson
Retired DeKalb attorney and judge Carl A. Swanson died April 26 at age 85 in his home at Buckingham, Pa. A 1948 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he had served as a commissioned Navy officer in the Pacific during World War II and taken post-graduate studies in communications at the U.S. Naval Academy.
His law practice in DeKalb County included service as a city attorney and state's attorney. He was elected to the 16th Circuit Court in 1963, and he retired in 1983.
Kirby Van Zandt
Centralia attorney Kirby D. Van Zandt died April 6 at age 47 in his home. A 1984 graduate of the Northern Illinois University College of Law, he was assistant legal counsel to the Illinois state comptroller for several years.
Mr. Van Zandt had a law practice in Springfield before returning to his hometown of Centralia in 1999.
Kline Weatherford
Kline Weatherford, a former special agent in charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died April 8 in his Mobile, Ala., home.
A graduate of the Loyola University of the South Law School, Mr. Weatherford was recruited by the FBI. During his 14 years of service, he also was assistant special agent in charge in Mobile. He later became president of the Morton Salt Co.
Mr. Weatherford served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and was a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.
West Group publishes 3rd premises liability edition
The third edition of the three-volume work, "Premises Liability: From Complaint to Verdict," by Louis A. Lehr Jr. of Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago, has been published by the West Group.
The new edition integrates leading-edge strategy and practice forms with the trial techniques and forms contained in the second edition by Lehr, who has served as president of Trial Attorneys of America.
Called an "expert, high-powered research tool" by the publisher "Premises Liability" includes a CD-ROM in RTF format with legal forms that appear in the three volumes.
Murder, she wrote
ISBA member Carol Miller of Milwaukee, Wis., is the author of a bankruptcy law thriller, "Murder in Chapter 11," that has been published by Zanderebooks as an online e-book in PDF format accessible with Adobe Acrobat software.
"Many of your readers may be interested in learning more about e-books," Miller said. "They are less expensive than traditional publishing, and mine retails for only $5.95.
"They are much more environmentally friendly, because they are paperless and don't end up in the trash dump," she added. E-books can be obtained on disk or downloaded to a computer for reading or printing.
For more information, access the publisher's web site, www.Zanderebooks.com. The author may be contacted at Carol_Miller@wieb.uscourts.gov.
Recent publications
The Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) has released the 2003 edition of its three-volume reference work, Illinois Civil Practice, written by some of the state's leading trial lawyers.
Among the authors are Judge Richard A. Siebel and attorneys Stephen D. Phillips, Willis R. Tribler, Curt N. Rodin, Gregory C. Ray, Nicholas J. Motherway, Stephen M. Tillery, Louis R. Hegeman, Fred Lane, Theodore R. Tetzlaff, Nat P. Ozmon, Patrick T. Driscoll Jr., Chester L. Blair and Abigail K. Spreyer.
The three volumes are titled Opening the Case, Preparing for Trial, and Trying the Case. Forms are available on CD-ROM. For ordering information, call (800) 252-8062 or access the web site, www. iicle. com.
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The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession has compiled a 24-page publication, "Sex-Based Harassment: Workplace Policies for the Legal Profession," that defines the problem and offers models for implementing policies. To order copies, call (800) 621-2736.
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