About 700 employees of the American Bar Association moved last month to its new location at 321 N. Clark St., Chicago. The previous Quaker Oats Building was dedicated June 11 as ABA Headquarters.
Participants in the ceremony included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow, ABA President Dennis W. Archer and Cook County Board President John Stroger.
The ma ssive move May 13 from ABA offices at 750 N. Lake Shore Drive and 541 N. Fairbanks required 178 semi-trailer trucks. Preliminary moves that began May 1 consisted of 175 truckloads carrying more than 10,000 boxes. About 14,625 linear feet of files was relocated.
The ABA now occupies 225,290 square feet on 10 floors, including two floors on the lower level. There is a board room on the 21st floor, a full conference center on the 15th floor, and seven other conference rooms.
Features of the lobby include an etched-glass installation on such events in legal history as adoption of the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
The ABA Museum of Law has 4,300 square feet in the new building, an increase from 3,600 square feet on Lake Shore Drive, and a large foyer for visitors.
Also housed in the new location are the American Bar Endowment, American Bar Insurance, American Bar Retirement Association, American Lawyers Auxiliary and National Association of Women Lawyers. The American Bar Foundation remains on Lake Shore Drive.
Headquartered in Chicago since 1926, the ABA was founded in 1878 in Saratoga Spring, N.Y. It moved from the Rookery Building to 1140 N. Dearborn in 1930, to East 60th Street near the University of Chicago in 1954, to the Northwestern University campus at Chicago Avenue and Lake Shore Drive in 1984.
About 700 employees of the American Bar Association moved last month to its new location at 321 N. Clark St., Chicago. The previous Quaker Oats Building was dedicated June 11 as ABA Headquarters.
Participants in the ceremony included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow, ABA President Dennis W. Archer and Cook County Board President John Stroger.
The ma ssive move May 13 from ABA offices at 750 N. Lake Shore Drive and 541 N. Fairbanks required 178 semi-trailer trucks. Preliminary moves that began May 1 consisted of 175 truckloads carrying more than 10,000 boxes. About 14,625 linear feet of files was relocated.
The ABA now occupies 225,290 square feet on 10 floors, including two floors on the lower level. There is a board room on the 21st floor, a full conference center on the 15th floor, and seven other conference rooms.
Features of the lobby include an etched-glass installation on such events in legal history as adoption of the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
The ABA Museum of Law has 4,300 square feet in the new building, an increase from 3,600 square feet on Lake Shore Drive, and a large foyer for visitors.
Also housed in the new location are the American Bar Endowment, American Bar Insurance, American Bar Retirement Association, American Lawyers Auxiliary and National Association of Women Lawyers. The American Bar Foundation remains on Lake Shore Drive.
Headquartered in Chicago since 1926, the ABA was founded in 1878 in Saratoga Spring, N.Y. It moved from the Rookery Building to 1140 N. Dearborn in 1930, to East 60th Street near the University of Chicago in 1954, to the Northwestern University campus at Chicago Avenue and Lake Shore Drive in 1984.
Prentice Marshall was icon of civil justice, pro bono
By Stephen Anderson
Illinois is the less for having lost two of its civil justice elders within a few months. Paul Simon and Prentice Marshall seemed hewn from the same hickory burl of integrity and responsibility.
Prentice H. Marshall Sr., a retired federal judge who likely would have accepted the role of major league baseball commissioner if so summoned, died May 24 in his home at Ponce Islet, Fla. He succumbed at age 77 to bladder cancer and cardio-pulmonary failure.
A 1951 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Marshall clerked for Judge Walter C. Lindley of the U.S. Court of Appeals before joining in 1953 the firm now known as Jenner & Block.
As a young lawyer, he chaired the ISBA Junior Bar Section and became active in the Chicago Bar Association Defense of Indigent Prisoners Committee.
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1956 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to appeal, he recruited lawyers throughout the state to accept appointments to deal with a flood of appeals.
Even while a law professor at the University of Illinois from 1967 to 1973, Mr. Marshall represented indigent defendants. He revamped the law school's trial advocacy program and helped establish the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
He also was a special assistant Illinois attorney general, a member of the Illinois Judicial Advisory Council, a hearing examiner for the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission, and co-chair of the Illinois Crime Investigating Commission.
Although he was a Democrat, Mr. Marshall was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District. Appointed in 1973, he took senior status in January 1989, retired in April 1996 and was of counsel to the Chicago firm of Cotsirilis, Tighe & Streicker.
In "A Court That Shaped America," a 2002 history of the Northern District Court, Mr. Marshall is cited for his important decisions in racial, ethnic and gender discrimination cases against the City of Chicago and its police department.
He ruled in 1974 that the department's hiring examination discriminated against minority applicants, and he ordered a new test. In 1976, he ruled that the city had to pay minority police officers for lost earnings, and the result was a $9 million settlement in 1988.
Mr. Marshall was tough on state court judges who abused their powers and extracted money from attorneys who appeared before them. In a 1987 judicial corruption decision, he construed federal mail fraud, racketeering and extortion statutes to apply to solicitation of interest-free loans.
Inducted as a Laureate of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers in 2003, Mr. Marshall was remembered for his lifelong support of pro bono representation of the indigent.
Law firm colleague Jerold S. Solovy, also a Laureate, credits him as "truly the father of Jenner & Block's pro bono legacy." Between 1953 and 1973, Mr. Marshall figured in about 25 trials and 20 appeals, some on behalf of indigent defendants in capital cases.