From 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Cook County Domestic Relations Division Associate Judge William Stewart Boyd will cover Introducing Evidence of Non-parties, Including Corporate Alter Egos and Assets, Income of Boyfriends, Girlfriends and New Spouses, Citation Proceedings and Their Use for the Family Law Practitioner.
At 9 a.m. April 9, a Louisiana attorney will present a Family Law Practitioner's Perspective on Practice in New Orleans.
At 10:15 a.m., Sarane C. Siewerth of Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck, Chicago, will speak on Maximizing Support and Maintenance: Looking Beyond the Check Stub.
At 11:15 a.m., Turning a Witness: Tips in Drawing Necessary Evidence out of Opposing Parties or Hostile Witnesses will be discussed by section council members Paul A. Osborn of Ward, Murray, Pace & Johnson, Sterling, and Matthew G. Shaw of Shaw, Jacobs & Associates, St. Charles.
The seminar will conclude at 12:15 p.m. and handouts of Case Law and Legislative Updates will be distributed.
The registration fees are $200 for members of the ISBA and Louisiana Bar, and $300 for non-members.
Resolution of insurance coverage disputes to be aired
"Insurance Coverage Disputes: The Basics of Litigating a Declaratory Judgment Action," an ISBA Law Ed Series luncheon seminar, will be conducted Friday, April 29, in the Chicago Regional Office.
Program coordinator and moderator is Nancy K. Caron of Caron, Constants & Wilson, Chicago, newsletter co-editor and past chair of the Insurance Law Section Council.
Two speakers will cover all of the subject matter. They are section council member Stephen L. Corn of Craig & Craig, Mattoon, who also serves on the Federal Civil Practice Section Council, and S. William Grimes of Caron, Constants & Wilson.
Caron will open the program at 11:30 a.m. with welcoming remarks and introductions. The following topics are scheduled for discussion.
11:40 a.m. - Pre-suit Considerations: when to file, where to file, denial of coverage vs. reservation of rights, determination premature until resolution of underlying case, effect on duty to defend, necessary parties and jurisdictional issues, and filing in state vs. federal court.
12 noon - Drafting the Complaint: statutory law (Illinois and federal), elements of complaint, coverage contentions, justiciable controversy, framing the issues, and exhibits to complaint.
12:15 p.m. - Discovery: use of interrogatories, requests to admit, subpoenas to third parties, deposition testimony, and discovery of claims, underwriting, broker and insured files.
12:30 p.m. - Resolution of Action (three parts).
Summary Judgment: legal vs. factual issues, authenticating documents, use of affidavits, and admissions.
Mediation: preparing your case, how to represent your client effectively, and use of client representatives.
Trial: burden of proof, jury or bench trial, and issues appropriate for trial vs. summary judgment.
12:50 p.m. - Questions and answers.
General practice developments updated by Collinsville panel
An "Update on Legal Developments for the General Practitioner" will be presented Friday, April 22, at the Holiday Inn, Collinsville, by the ISBA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section.
The Law Ed Series seminar is coordinated by section council member Julie Ann Sebastian, an assistant Cook County state's attorney. Cook County Judge Edna Turkington-Viktora, section newsletter co-editor, is the moderator. The schedule follows.
9 a.m. - Update on Real Estate Law, with John G. O'Brien of Arlington Heights, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors and founder of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association.
9:30 a.m. - Update on Criminal Law, with section council past chair Michele M. Jochner of Chicago, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors and law clerk to Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow of the Illinois Supreme Court.
10 a.m. - Criminal Records Relief: Petitions for Executive Clemency (speaker to be announced).
10:45 a.m. - Update on Family Law, with Patricia H. Kievlan of Pessin, Baird & Wells, Belleville.
11:15 a.m. - Update on Grandparent Visitation, with section council member Michael K. Goldberg of Goldberg & Goldberg, Chicago.
12 noon - Luncheon period.
1:15 p.m. - Update on Probate Law and Estate Planning, with section council member Patrick E. Ward of Ward & Ward, Dixon.
1:45 p.m. - Update on Traffic Law, with Larry A. Davis of DesPlaines, editor of the Traffic Laws and Courts Section newsletter.
2:30 p.m. - Update on Topics in Professional Responsibility and Attorney Discipline, with Gary S. Rapaport of Springfield, senior counsel of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
3 p.m. - Update on Employment Law Issues (speaker to be announced).
3:30 p.m. - Billing for Success and 30 Tips in 30 Minutes, with ISBA Assembly Carl R. Draper of Feldman, Wasser, Draper & Benson, Springfield, past chair of the Law Office Management and Economics (Standing Committe on) Council.
Health care facing challenges
The U.S. Congress and Internal Revenue Service are committed to reviewing the practices by about 2,000 tax-exempt organizations of compensating their executives.
This is one of the timely topics that will be discussed during the ISBA Law Ed Series seminar, "Not-for-Profit Health Care Organizations: Responding to New Challenges," from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Friday, April 15, in the Chicago Regional Office.
The ISBA Health Care Section will conduct the seminar, with co-sponsorship by the Center for Health Law and Policy of the Southern Illinois University School of Law, and the Department of Medical Humanities of the SIU School of Medicine.
Section council chair William F. Sherwood of Carbondale, vice president and general counsel of Southern Illinois Healthcare, will open the program at 9 a.m. and serve as moderator.
Robert A. Clifford of the Clifford Law Offices, Chicago, will speak at 9:10 a.m. about a plaintiff's perspective on Challenges to Health Care Tax Exemption.
Clifford's presentation includes class action litigation that has been filed by uninsured patients against hospitals and hospital systems for failing to provide sufficient charity health care, while pursuing aggressive and humiliating collection techniques.
At 10:10 a.m., Thomas M. Fahey of Ungaretti & Harris will discuss Risk Management and Compliance Strategies that organizations should consider to avoid loss of not-for-profit status, such as challenges created by the Illinois Community Benefits Act.
The seminar will conclude with the 11:10 a.m. presentation, IRS Review of Executive Compensation and Benefits for Officers and Insiders of Tax-exempt Organizations, by Elizabeth M. Mills of McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago.
Comprehensive audit initiatives of the IRS are reinforced by heightened congressional scrutiny as part of a policy debate on the adequacy of current requirements.
Mills will offer practical suggestions for dealing with IRS examinations, and will explore strategies for future assessment and management of exemption risks in tne design, development and implementation of executive compensation programs.
WBAI co-sponsors Law Ed seminars
The Women's Bar Association of Illinois has signed on as a co-sponsor of several ISBA Law Ed Series seminars. WBAI members who do not belong to the ISBA may register for these programs at member rates.
Seminars with WBAI participation are Back to Basics: Abuse, Neglect and Dependency, April 1 in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office; Civil Practice Update, April 22 in the UBS Tower Conference Center, Chicago, and Hanging Out Your Shingle, May 6 at the Holiday Inn, Collinsville.
Ethics lecture by Jim Ryan is April 1 at NIU
Former Illinois attorney general Jim Ryan will deliver the 12th annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism at 2 p.m. Friday, April 1, at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, DeKalb.
Ryan's lecture in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom will be followed by a reception in the Thurgood Marshall Gallery, as the NIU Public Interest Law Society holds its 10th annual auction benefit for student summer stipends.
A 1971 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Ryan practiced with Ryan & Darrah from 1976 until 1984, after which he served 10 years as DuPage County state's attorney. He is a past president of the Illinois State's Attorneys Association.
As attorney general from 1995 to 2003, Ryan was a leader in the war on crime, vigorously enforced environmental and consumer protection laws, and established a health care bureau to protect the rights of patients. He is of counsel to the Naperville firm of Ryan & Kavvadias.
The Riley Lecture series was established in 1994 to honor a professor emeritus who was inducted in 2001 as a Laureate of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers. Speakers have included ISBA past president Cheryl I. Niro.
Women Everywhere bar groups plan May service activities
The sixth annual community service initiative, Women Everywhere: Partners in Service Project, will take place in May with events on two dates. A kickoff reception, with remarks by Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of the Cook County Circuit Court, was held this month.
An educational program for girls and young women will be conducted Thursday, May 12, and the annual service day for community agencies that assist women and children in need is scheduled Thursday, May 26.
Sponsors include the ISBA Committee on Women and the Law, the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, the Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women, the DuPage Association of Women Lawyers, the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois and the Hadassah Attorneys Council.
Co-chairs of the 2005 events are Chicago attorneys Jeanne M. Reynolds of Reynolds & Reynolds and Ellen M. Girard of Quarles & Brady. For more information, call Courtney Stevens at (312) 840-8621.
New officers of Women Everywhere: Partners in Service, a recently incorporated not-for-profit, are Reynolds, president and secretary; Girard, vice president, and Mary Minella, treasurer.
The Loyola University School of Law has named an authority on sentencing reform as its new dean. David Yellen of the Hofstra University School of Law faculty will succeed Nina Appel, who stepped down last year, and Diane Geraghty, who has been interim dean.
Yellen, who was dean of the Hempstead, N.Y., school from 2001 to 2004, will become Loyola's dean in July. He is the Max Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Law at Hofstra and the Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Villanova University School of Law.
A graduate of the Cornell University Law School, where he also has taught, Yellen is former counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
He has written articles and lectured to federal judges about sentencing guidelines. He has testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and is adviser to the Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation.
Law school to move down block in July
Before Dean Yellen arrives, Loyola's School of Law is scheduled to move in June from One E. Pearson, Chicago, to almost twice as much space in the 15-story building at 25 E. Pearson. The law library has been located in the newer building since it opened in July 1994.
The current location, Maguire Hall, became the law school's home in 1980 after a series of moves that followed its founding in 1908 as the Lincoln College of Law. It became Loyola's Law Department in 1909.
After the law library moved out 11 years ago, Maguire Hall was renovated. It was rededicated in April 1996 with a ribbon-cutting and ceremonial luncheon in Kasbeer Hall atop the 25 E. Pearson facility.
The law school will eventually occupy seven floors at 25 E. Pearson, which will be named the Loyola Law Center. Its classrooms will be wired to accommodate computer and audio-visual applications.
Abraham Lincoln Museum grand opening next month
The new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield will have its official grand opening on Tuesday, April 19, after a public dedication ceremony at 11 a.m. in Union Square Park. The museum also will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 16-17, in conjunction with several special events.
A two-day Looking for Lincoln block party will take place from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in downtown Springfield, with living history, theater troupes, choirs, folk dancers, artists and a Culinary Court of area restaurant cuisine.
A ticketed two-day conference, "Lincoln in the 21st Century," will be conducted Sunday and Monday in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Lincoln scholars will discuss the 16th president's attitude on race, domestic life and wartime leadership. The registration fee is $50.
A recreation of Lincoln's farewell address at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Old Train Depot will precede a torchlight parade to Union Square Park, for a free outdoor concert by the 312th Army Band, fireworks and laser show.
The Abraham Lincoln Association will sponsor a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Monday in the library, with a report from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Tickets are $25.
A Lincoln White House state dinner with a Lincoln-era menu and 19th century music will be recreated at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Renaissance Hotel, as a benefit for the library foundation. Author David Herbert Donald will be the inaugural recipient of a prize in his name for excellence in Lincoln studies. Tickets are $500.
The ISBA Committee on Continuing Legal Education has set a deadline of Wednesday, June 8, for proposals from section councils and committees for Law Ed Series seminars that will take place next fall. This does not include Midyear Meeting programs.
Information and program proposal forms may be obtained by accessing the ISBA Web site, www.isba.org, or calling the CLE registrar at (800) 252-8908.
Find and share forms at ISBA's Form Exchange
Several months ago, members of ISBA's transactional law discussion group began wishing aloud for a place where they could find and post legal forms. That way, if a group member needed, say, an assignment-of-mortgage form, he or she could put out a call. A friendly fellow member could then post it on the Web, where it would be archived for anyone who might want it later.
Evanston lawyer and discussion-group member Michael Poulos took matters in hand and created an online form exchange using a free commercial service. The response was so enthusiastic that he was flooded with requests to join, ISBA stepped in to help, and the Form Exchange was born.
The Form Exchange, at <www.isba.org/formexchange>, is open to all ISBA members. It houses a small but growing archive of free, member-contributed forms ranging from an "assignment of mortgage" to a "will execution ceremony checklist."
Members are encouraged to contribute forms, too (forms of their own creation, of course, not from a commercial formbook). They can do so by following the instructions and signing off on the agreement at the "contribute of form" page.