The program from 8:50 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 16, in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office will introduce general practitioners and new attorneys to fundamental differences among the entities and related issues of taxation, liability, management and control.
Coordinated by Michele M. Jochner of Chicago, chair of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Council, and Brent H. Gwillim of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria, chair of the Corporation, Securities and Business Law Section Council, the seminar is also co-sponsored by the Young Lawyers Division Council.
Donald A. LoBue of Springfield, a member of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Council, is the moderator. Jochner, law clerk to Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow and a member of the ISBA Board of Governors, will open the program with introductions. The schedule follows.
9 a.m. Overview of Business Entity Choices, with Nancy A. Fallon-Houle of Downers Grove, a member of the Corporation, Securities and Business Law Section Council.
10:45 a.m. Tax Consequences of Choosing a Particular Business Entity, with William A. Price of Warrenville, an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a member of the Administrative Law and the Corporation, Securities and Business Law Section Council.
1:15 p.m. Fiduciary Duty and Business Entity Choices, with Prof. Charles W. Murdock of the Loyola University School of Law, a member of the Corporation, Securities and Business Law Section Council.
2 p.m. Agreements and the New Business Entity, with Linscott R. Hanson of DiMonte & Lizak, Park Ridge.
3 p.m. Avoiding Malpractice in Setting up a Business Entity, with Patrick Sean Ginty of Winston & Strawn, Chicago.
3:30 p.m. Ethical Considerations in Choosing a Business Entity, with Mary F. Andreoni, administrative counsel of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Counsel and member of the ISBA Committee on Professional Conduct.
Fair use of Internet works among April 2 panel topics
The ISBA Law Ed Series seminar, "Intellectual Property and the Classroom: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Litigation in the Internet Age," will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 2, at the Holiday Inn, Collinsville.
The seminar is coordinated by Steven L. Baron of Mandell, Menkes & Surdyk, chair of the Intellectual Property Section Council, who also will be the moderator.
The program will begin with an Intellectual Property Overview by section council member Joseph T. Nabor of Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Chicago. The schedule follows.
9:20 a.m. Copyright Basics, with section council member Eugene F. Friedman of Friedman & Friedman, Chicago, and Steven J. Helle of Urbana, an attorney and journalism professor at the University of Illinois.
9:40 a.m. Fair Use in the Classroom, with Eugene Friedman.
10:15 a.m. Ownership Issues, with section council newsletter editor Daniel L. Kegan of Kegan & Kegan, Chicago.
10:35 a.m. Distance Learning, with Steven Baron.
10:55 a.m. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, with Steven Baron and Joseph F. Marinelli of Jenner & Block, Chicago.
11:15 a.m. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, with section council member Charles L. Mudd, president of Privacy Resolutions, Chicago.
11:35 a.m. Trademark Issues, with Daniel Kegan and section council vice chair Aaron W. Brooks of Holmstrom & Kennedy, Rockford.
1 p.m. Patent Issues, with Joseph Marinelli and section council newsletter co-editor Leon I. Edelson of Levenfeld Pearlstein, Chicago.
1:20 p.m. Privacy Issues, with Steven Baron and section council member Stephen G. Kehoe of Bellows & Bellows, Chicago.
1:40 p.m. Trade Secrets, with Joseph Nabor.
2:15 p.m. Issues in Information Technology Administration, with section council past chair David J. Loundy, corporate counsel for Devon Bank, Chicago.
2:35 p.m. - Licensing of Intellectual Property, with Leon Edelson.
2:55 p.m. Ethical Issues in Representing Clients in Education, with Eugene Friedman and section council secretary Amanda D. Howland of Lake Zurich.
The ISBA Board of Governors has approved a recommendation from the Committee on Scope and Correlation to amend the scope statement of the Committee on the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
Reflecting enhanced rapport between officials of the ISBA and ARDC, the statement, "To improve the relationship..." becomes "To solidify the working relationship..."
Further, the committee will make recommendations to the ARDC and Supreme Court "to ensure that the disciplinary system is fair and balances the needs of the profession and public."
Lavin doubles Kankakee Bar scholars' fund
By Stephen Anderson
Terrence J. Lavin was elected ISBA third vice president four years ago without opposition, so he ultimately did not need the support he sought during visits to regional bar associations around the state.
Hence he may not have been required to keep campaign promises, but he did fulfill certain pledges he made to the Kankakee County Bar Association. In fact, he surpassed expectations at the association's dinner meeting Feb. 11 in Bradley.
Before his election, Lavin had asked the Kankakee bar to become more involved in ISBA activities. He said that in turn he would make appropriate presidential appointments and he would return during his tenure to be a guest speaker.
The audience he addressed last month included Kankakee stalwarts Adrienne W. Albrecht, chair of the ISBA Committee on Legal Technology and member of the Family Law Section Council, and Michael R. Berz, who serves on the ISBA Assembly and is vice chair of the Committee on the ARDC.
Seated next to Lavin at the head table was J. Dennis Marek, a member of the Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council and the Committee on Judicial Evaluations Outside Cook County. Glen R. Barmann of Kankakee serves on the Trusts and Estates Section Council.
Terry Lavin's keynote remarks drew almost as much applause as he received when he rose earlier to double each of the $1,000 scholarships the bar's Society of Women in Law presented to a pair of second-year law students from Southern Illinois University.
Deborah A. Woodruff introduced the recipients, Crystal M. Pipher and Nicole B. Poirier, and they responded graciously. Then Lavin announced that each would get $2,000 instead of $1,000, sweetening their rewards for traveling from Carbondale.
Pipher is a law clerk in the SIU general counsel's office. Poirier, a research assistant at the law school, has written for ISBA newsletters on health care and administrative law.
The presentations were not over. Kankakee Bar President Roger C. Elliott called on Emile A. Capriotti to accept the inaugural Victor Cardosi Award.
The award is named in memory of a self-taught Kankakee lawyer who passed the bar exam in 1926 and had a distinguished 60-year legal career that included serving as chief judge when the circuit included Will County. Cardosi died about 20 years ago.
Capriotti, a former author and educator, practices with LaBeau, Dietchweiler & Associates and is an assistant public defender. A 1990 graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, he received a master of laws degree at the DePaul University College of Law in 1992.
Annual Lawyer's Workshop is May 1 at John Marshall
An ISBA Lawyer's Workshop will be conducted Saturday, May 1, at The John Marshall Law School by the Committee on Minority and Women Participation and the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section.
Registration and continental breakfast at 8:15 a.m. will be followed by an opening plenary at 8:45 a.m. and three subsequent sessions of two concurrent presentations each. They are:
Session One, 9 a.m.
Family Law: Hot Topics and What Judges Look For, with moderator Jennifer A. Shaw of Reilly & Shaw, Edwardsville, and Associate Judge Barbara L. Crowder of the 3rd Circuit, Edwardsville, member of the Bench and Bar Section Council.
Transition from Public Practice to Private Practice, with moderator Richard N. Porter of Markham, assistant public defender and chair of the Committee on Minority and Women Participation; Betty Y. Jang of Hinshaw & Culbertson, Champaign; John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr., Chicago; Jeffrey Luckett, Chicago, and Loren B. Middleton, Oak Park.
Session Two, 10:20 a.m.
Technology: Confidentiality Issues and What's New in Software, with moderator Yvonne M. Kato of Hartigan & Cuisinier, Chicago, secretary of the Committee on Minority and Women Participation, and Mark C. Metzger of Hinshaw & Culbertson, Lisle.
HIPPA Changes: Effect on Civil Litigation, with moderator Alice M. Noble-Allgire of the Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale; Katherine I. Dzik of the Clifford Law Offices, Chicago, and Paul S. Franciskowicz of Monahan & Cohen, Chicago.
Session Three, 11:40 a.m.
Estates and Probate Administration, with moderator Letitia Spunar-Sheats of Chicago, past chair of the Committee on Minority and Women Participation; Charles A. Kogut of Kogut & Associates, Chicago, and Associate Judge Jeffrey A. Malek of the Cook County Probate Division.
DUI Matters, with moderator Michelle Ann Miller of Chicago, William J. Luby of Mt. Prospect and Charles S. Beach II of Chicago.
Workshop co-sponsors include the ISBA Young Lawyers Division, the Committee on Bar Services and Activities, the Women's Bar Association of Illinois and the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms.
For registration details, call Phyllis Lester at (312) 726-8775.
Annual Meeting award deadlines approach
April deadlines have been set for nominations for three ISBA awards that will be presented Friday, June 18, at a luncheon during the Annual Meeting at The Abbey on Lake Geneva. Summaries follow.
Law Student Service
An outstanding law student may be nominated by each ISBA-affiliated school, and one finalist will be selected to receive the ISBA Law Student Division Public Service Award. The deadline for entries is Friday, April 16.
Criteria include extracurricular accomplishments and participation in activities that enhance professional responsibility and provide service to the public. Applicants must be members in good standing of the Law Student Division.
Travel and lodging expenses of the recipient to attend the Annual Meeting will be reimbursed, and he or she will be able to designate a law-related, not-for-profit organization to receive a $250 contribution. Each finalist will receive a plaque.
Nomination forms are available at the law schools, or may be obtained by calling Phyllis Lester at (312) 726-8775. Entries should be sent to Janet M. Sosin in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office.
Tradition of Excellence
Illinois lawyers and judges are eligible for the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section's annual Tradition of Excellence Award. Nomination letters and supporting information may be submitted by individuals, law firms and bar associations.
Criteria include distinguished law practice, leadership in continuing legal education and public service to the community that enhances the standing of general practitioners.
Friday, April 30, is the deadline for nomination letters and attachments to be received by Janet M. Sosin in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office. To obtain a list of required information, call Phyllis Lester at (312) 726-8775.
Young Lawyers of Year
Two plaques will be presented at the ISBA Annual Meeting to Young Lawyers of the Year - one from Cook County and one from outside Cook County. Nomination forms are available in the Chicago Regional Office and on the Web site, www.isba.org under More from ISBA.
Nominations must be submitted by Friday, April 30, to the ISBA Young Lawyers Division, Suite 900, 20 S. Clark St., Chicago 60603. For more information, call Janet M. Sosin at (312) 726-8775.
The YLD established the award in 1999 to honor outstanding ISBA members who are under the age of 36. Last year's recipients were Celia G. Gamrath of Chicago and Peter Jennetten of Peoria.
Women's Bar celebrates 90th, plans June 3 installation
The 90-year-old Women's Bar Association of Illinois will present its Myra Colby Bradwell Award to retired Cook County judge Sheila M. Murphy during its annual dinner Thursday, June 3, in the Chicago Hilton Hotel and Towers.
An ISBA Assembly member who previously served on the Board of Governors, Murphy is co-chair of the Special Committee on Mentoring and a past president of the Lawyers' Assistance Program. She is of counsel to Rothschild, Barry & Myers, Chicago.
Marlene A. Kurilla of Mora, Baugh, Waltzman & Unger, Chicago, will be installed as WBAI president. She is newsletter co-editor for the ISBA Insurance Law Section Council and a member of the Committee on Supreme Court Rules.
Kurilla will succeed Associate Judge Elizabeth M. Budzinski as president at the dinner, where Nesita Kwan of WMAQ-TV will receive a special Women with Vision Award.
The Women's Bar Association celebrated its 90th anniversary during a reception March 5 at the Chicago Historical Society. Past president and historian Charlotte Adelman received the inaugural Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow Award.
Adelman compiled "WBAI 75: The First 75 Years," a hardbound book that was published 15 years ago to commemorate the organization's formation in June 1914 by nine Chicago lawyers.
The WBAI charter stated a purpose "to promulgate, promote, advance and protect the interests of the women lawyers in the State of Illinois, and to do all other and necessary things in connection therewith, including the publishing, printing or circulating pamphlets or journals in relation thereto."
Nettie Rothblum (Loew), one of the founders, was elected the first president of the WBAI. The only woman in her class at Chicago's Kent Law School, she was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1909.
The second president, Nellie Carlin, had not been a founder. A graduate of the Chicago College of Law who was admitted in 1896, she was appointed an assistant state's attorney in 1917, the year after her term as president ended.
The third president, Catherine Waugh McCulloch, served four terms from 1916 to 1920. A founding WBAI member and an 1886 graduate of the Union College of Law (now Northwestern), she was the 18th woman admitted to the Illinois bar. She joined the Illinois State Bar Association in 1891.
An early leader in the movement to allow women to vote, McCulloch was an active member of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association and the American Women's Suffrage Association. She had been elected a justice of the peace in 1907.
It was during McCulloch's tenure as WBAI president that the 19th Amendment was passed by Congress, and Illinois became the first state to ratify it on June 10, 1919.
McCulloch practiced with her law school classmate husband, Frank H. McCulloch, in the Rookery Building. She served as a master in chancery in Superior Court from 1917 to 1925.
In the 1990 Illinois Bar Journal article, "Legal Pioneers: Four of Illinois' First Women Lawyers" by Meg Gorecki, Catherine Waugh McCulloch was lauded along with Myra Bradwell, Alta Hulett and Ada Kepley.