Prof. Steven Lubet of the Northwestern University School of Law will speak at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in the Cook County Bar Association lecture series on ethics and professionalism. The programs will take place in the sixth-floor conference room at 188 W. Randolph, Chicago. Call (312) 368-0213.
DePaul College of Law
The 10th annual Robert A. Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy will be conducted Thursday and Friday, April 15-16, at the DePaul University College of Law. The title is "Starting Over? Redesigning the Medical Malpractice System." Call Deborah Howard, (312) 362-5928.
Employment Lawyers
The Illinois chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association will present an update next month on tax consequences of settlements and judgments under the civil rights laws. Speakers are Ronald Schwartz and Peter Carey.
The brown-bag luncheon seminar will take place Tuesday, April 20, in the eighth-floor conference room of the Monadnock Building, 53 W, Jackson. Call L. Steven Platt, (312) 236-0415.
See the world with colleagues in ISBA travel opportunities
Several ISBA-sponsored travel programs this year are being coordinated by Global Holidays. Call (800) 842-9023 for information or reservations, and visit the ISBA office to pick up brochures.
Prices per person listed are based on double occupancy, with round-trip airfare, but do not include taxes and fees. Departures may be available from both Chicago and St. Louis. Summaries follow.
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An ISBA trip to Scandinavia includes three nights in Copenhagen, Denmark, one night aboard ship and three nights in Oslo, Norway. Prices are $1,949 for dates of May 7-14 and May 14-22, and $1,989 for May 21-29 and May 28-June 5.
Available options are Royal Tour of Copenhagen, Tivoli Gardens, Olympic City of Lillehammer, House of Norway dinner, and two-day trips to Vaxjo, Sweden, and to Norway's Fjord Country.
Golden: China in June
Past president Loren Golden's trip to China, which was canceled last year, has been rescheduled from June 24 to July 6 at the price of $2,799. Highlights include the historic attractions of Shanghai, Beijing and Xi'an, and a three-day Yangtze River cruise.
The package includes 31 meals, seven nights in superior first-class hotels, and four nights aboard a Victoria Cruises ship in outside cabins with private balconies.
London city, options
A trip to London, with two hotel choices and several optional excursions, will take place July 23 to 31. Both Chicago and St. Louis departures are available.
Prices are: for accommodations at the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum, $1,349 from Chicago or $1,449 from St. Louis; for accommodations at the Millennium Gloucester. $1,399 from Chicago or $1,499 from St. Louis. Government taxes, security charges and fees are an additional $129 per person.
Prices include round-trip fares on American Trans Air's new Boeing 757-300, seven nights, daily buffet breakfast, airport transfers, luggage handling, professional guides and hotel information desks.
Options include Stratford-Upon-Avon and Warwick Castle; Bath and Stonehenge; Windsor Castle; Paris by chunnel on Eurostar; Hampton Court and Oxford; Royal London and Thames cruise; dinner and West End theatre.
Pace: Italy in October
President-elect Ole Bly Pace III has selected Italy as the destination of his presidential travel program next fall. Pricing for the trip from Oct. 15 to 23 is $1,599 from Chicago and $1,699 from St. Louis, plus government taxes, security charges and fees.
After the flight to Rome, ISBA travelers will stay four nights in Chianciano in the Tuscany hills and three nights in Fiuggi on the slopes of Mount Erici. Prices include a welcome reception, daily buffet breakfasts, scenic transfer via Orvieto, experienced guide and farewell dinner.
Optional excursions from Chianciano include Florence, Assisi and the Splendor of Tuscany. Options from Fiuggi are Monumental Rome and Vatican City, Naples and Pompeii.
More scheduled in 2005
The ISBA Committee on Bar Services and Activities has approved participation in the following 2005 departure dates for travel programs planned by Global Holidays.
China: Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'an, Yangtze River cruise - March 24, March 31, May 27, June 3, June 9, June 17, June 24.
Spain April 15, April 19, April 23, April 27, May 1, May 5.
Switzerland and Germany July 22, July 29, Aug. 5, Aug. 12, Aug. 19, Aug. 26.
Ireland Sept. 2, Sept. 9, Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7.
Italian Riviera and Tuscany Sept. 2, Sept. 9, Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7, Oct. 14.
New shareholders at Banner & Witcoff, Chicago, are Binal Patel and Aimee Boss, both in intellectual property.
New members at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, include Michael J. Hayes Sr., S. Patrick McKey and Nicola Fiordalisi. Hayes will head the firm's public and regulatory law practice. All three come from Gardner, Carton & Douglas, where Fiordalisi chaired the International Practice Group.
Jon R. Baermann has become of counsel in the Batavia office of Chmiel & Matuszewich. He concentrates in financial law, business transactions and estate planning.
Sandra J. Tatoian of Glen Carbon has joined the Coffey Law Firm, Edwardsville, as an associate.
R. Sean Hocking has joined Craig & Craig in Mattoon.
New associates at Cullen, Haskins, Nicholson & Menchetti, Chicago, are John W. Powers and former assistant Illinois attorney general Matthew A. Wrigley.
Elected partners at Foley & Lardner, Chicago, are Lisa J. Acevedo, health law; Pauline E. Doohan, business law, and Thomas P. Krebs, litigation.
New lateral attorneys in insolvency and creditor's rights at Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, are Harley Goldstein and David Kane, from Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman; Neal Levin, David Madden and Sheila Zeller, from Neal Levin & Associates. Feng Xue, senior counsel in the business group, comes from the Shanghai office of Altheimer & Gray.
New associates at Freeborn & Peters are Brian A. Smith, who was with Michael Best & Friedrich, and Sarah Wang, former intellectual property law clerk in the Shanghai Second Intermediate Court.
Harold L. Kaplan has been selected as chair of Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago. Kaplan heads the firm's Corporate Restructuring and Financial Institutions Group and the corporate trust and bondholder rights practices. He also chairs the ABA Health Care-related Bankruptcy Issues Working Group.
Kenneth D. Crews has been elected to partnership in GoodSmith, Gregg & Unruh, Chicago. He was a partner at Latham & Watkins. New associates are Ellen K. Fulton, from Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and Jennifer L. Hansen, from Latham & Watkins.
Jeff Olin has joined the International Tax Practice at Grant Thornton, Chicago, as a regional partner. He was an international tax partner at McDermott, Will & Emery.
Emily C. Singley has joined the Swansea office of Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale as an associate in complex commercial and intellectual property litigation.
New partners in the Edwardsville office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Edwardsville, are James A. Telhorst, worker's compensation; Joseph P. Whyte, class action defense, and Mike T. Kokal, professional liability.
Theresa M. Powell is a partner in Heyl Royster's Springfield office in defense of professional liability claims. Keith E. Fruehling, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors, is a partner in civil litigation in the Urbana office.
Deborah Gage Haude has joined JAMS: The Resolution Experts in Chicago, as a mediator and arbitrator. She was with ADR Associates, which has combined with JAMS to offer dispute resolution services nationally.
Elected shareholders at Jenkins & Gilchrist, Chicago, are Margo Wolf O'Donnell, litigation; and John C. Gatz, intellectual property. Vivian Morris has joined the firm's Financial Services Group, and Andrew C. Warnecke is a new member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group.
New associates at Krol, Bongiorno & Given, Chicago, are Guy R. Spayth Jr. and Daniel L. Collins.
Allen A. Lefkovitz, formerly with Arnstein & Lehr, has relocated to Suite 1200, 120 N. LaSalle St., Chicago 60602; phone (312) 251-0025.
Kelli E. Madigan, vice chair of the ISBA Federal Taxation Section Council, has become a principal in Mathis, Marifian, Richter & Grandy, Belleville. She is co-chair of the legislative committee of the Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St. Louis.
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Chicago recently elected six members to its board of directors. They are James M. Hafertape, Leland G. Hansen, Peter J. McAndrews, Dean A. Pelletier, Eligio C. Pimentel and Jonathan R. Sick.
New associates at the McAndrews firm are Brian C. Bianco, Christopher R. Carroll, Merle S. Elliott, Consuelo G. Erwin, Peter J. Prommer, Christopher M. Scharff and Philip H. Sheridan.
Christopher M. Toner, who was admitted to the Illinois bar in November, has joined the Wisconsin law firm of Metzler & Hager as an associate.
Jack A. Rovner has joined Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, as co-chair of its Health Law Group. He was a partner in Michael Best & Friedrich. Kathryn A. Roe, also from Michael Best, is a partner in health law. Land use and zoning attorney Gerald P. Callaghan is a new partner in the Real Estate Group.
Other new partners at Neal Gerber are Karen A. Broucek, employment benefits and executive compensation; Michael P. Manley, securities and commodities litigation; Jennifer Desser and Leah A. Schleicher, real estate; Lee J. Eulgen, intellectual property; Joshua A. Klein and Winfield S. Thom, corporate and securities, and William J. Tarnow II, labor and employment.
Named partners at Nyhan, Pfister, Bambrick, Kinzie & Lowry, Chicago, include Micaela M. Cassidy, Douglas S. Steffenson and Jason H. Payne. New associates are Carolyn R. Klarquist, Christopher D. Freeman, Joshua D. Luskin and Lynn M. Combs.
New partners at Piper Rudnick, Chicago, are: Anne C. Auten, commercial litigation; Catherine M. Burkhardt, franchise litigation; Catherine J. Casey, commercial litigation; Mary Kay Dreyfus, merger and acquisitions and Dov Pinchot, corporate real estate.
G.A. Finch has been re-elected co-managing partner at Querrey & Harrow, Chicago. He chairs the firm's Real Estate Group and Governmental Affairs-Government Procurement Group.
Elected partners at Querrey & Harrow are Christine McAsey, in litigation in the Joliet office; David Peterson, general civil litigation, and Eric Traul, head of the Workers' Compensation Group, both in the Chicago office. New associates are Diana Abruzzi, Erin S. Keane and Evdoxia C. Nassopoulos.
Elected partners at Rook Pitts, Chicago, are Jodi L. Henninger, commercial real estate; Daniel M. Noland, commercial litigation; Stephen D. Sayre, lending and finance; Robert K. Villa, insurance coverage, and Cheryl A. Warzynski, medical malpractice. Gregory L. Lacey, Dennis P. Lindell and Michelle L. Singer have joined the firm's Lisle office. Lea A. Sargent is new in the Chicago office.
Judith Schwartz Sherwin has joined Shefsky & Froelich, Chicago, as a shareholder in health care litigation and transactions. She comes from Michael Best & Friedrich.
Carolyn L. Morehouse (litigation) and Erika A. Swanson (estate planning) have joined Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago. Morehouse comes from Schiff Hardin & Waite, and Swanson from Foley & Lardner.
New partners at Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, are Scott R. Borstein, zoning and land use; Joseph E. Bender, Charles C. Kim and Michael P. Lusk, corporate, securities and tax; Leo P. Dombrowski, litigation, and Mary P. Higgins, real estate.
Kiplund R. Kolkmeier has joined Wildman Harrold as of counsel in governmental affairs and is based in Springfield. He has been with Altheimer & Gray and Sidley & Austin.
The Appellate Lawyers Association and the ISBA Young Lawyers Division will conduct a moot court competition Friday and Saturday, April 16-17. Volunteer judges and evaluators should call David E. Neumeister at (312) 540-7554.
Central Illinois Women
The Central Illinois Women's Bar Association will hold a judicial reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, in Maldaner's Restaurant. The Government Bar Association is a co-sponsor. Call Erica R. Clinton, (217) 785-2284, or Keleigh Biggins, (217) 785-2283.
Christian Legal Society
The Christian Legal Society of Northern Illinois conducts luncheon meetings and programs on the first Wednesday of each month at the Chicago Bar Association. The next date is April 7.
DuPage County Bar
Volunteers in DuPage County Bar Lawyers Lending a Hand will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 25, at the Discoveries Resale Shop in Warrenville to help with spring cleaning and support Youth and Family Services. Call Eddie Wollenberg, (630) 668-2415.