Smith & LaLuzerne has moved its Lake County office to the second floor at 209 W. Madison St., Waukegan 60085-4345. The telephone number has been changed to (847) 775-7700.
The Chicago-based firm of Segal, McCambridge, Singer & Mahoney has relocated its New York and New Jersey offices to accommodate recent growth. The New York City office moved to 830 Third Avenue. The Princeton, N.J., office moved from the Metro Center to the Carnegie Center.
Michael Best & Friedrich has leased 44,000 square feet on the 19th through 21st floors of Two Prudential Plaza, effective Jan. 1, 2006, and will move its Chicago office from the Equitable Building.
Mundelein attorney Raymond J. Kloss has opened The Law Office of Raymond J. Kloss in suite 130, 505 E. Hawley, Mundelein 60060; telephone (847) 949-1822.
The offices of Shefsky & Froehlich relocated May 2 from Michigan Avenue to suite 2800, 111 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 60601. The telephone numbers have not changed.
Walter Bieschke: trial lawyer, judge, war hero
Retired Cook County judge Walter B. Bieschke, a trial lawyer for 25 years and a judge for 22 years, died April 25 at age 81 of prostate cancer in his Elgin home.
A 1951 cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School who earned a juris doctorate cum laude in 1970, Mr. Bieschke had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
As a radio operator and gunner aboard a B-17 "Flying Fortress," he flew in 35 combat missions, receiving the Air Medal with three Bronze Clusters for valor in action.
Mr. Bieschke was chief trial attorney for Owens, Owens & Rinn until 1962, when he began a sole practice. He was appointed an associate judge in 1975 and a circuit judge in 1977, and was elected to the circuit court in 1978.
He served in Tax Court, Law Division Jury Section and Chancery Division, and in 1983 was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Study Committee on Right to Trial.
Mr. Bieschke was a member of the Chicago Bar Association Defense of Prisoners Committee from 1975 to 1981, and he also served on committees on tort litigation, operation of the circuit court, civil practice, and state and municipal taxation.
In retirement since 1997, he was an arbitrator for ADR Systems of America.
Thomas Benda
Wheaton attorney Thomas John Benda died April 23 at age 69. A 1965 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, he served as both an assistant DuPage County state's attorney and an assistant public defender.
Mr. Benda was a former village prosecutor for Woodridge and Lisle, and he served on the board of the DuPage County Bar Association. He was a retired Air Force captain.
Jay Brown
Retired Chicago attorney and trader Jay M. Brown died April 28 at age 72. He was a 1955 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Mr. Brown taught computer applications at Louisa May Alcott Elementary School and volunteered for 18 years at the Lincoln Park Zoo Farm in the Zoo.
David Corwine
Retired Chicago attorney David Brooks Corwine died April 28 at age 67 in Naples, Fla. He was a 1969 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.
A Marine veteran, Mr. Corwine was a past commander of the South Suburban Detachment of the Marine Corps League and the E. T. Brisson Detachment in Naples.
Robert Day
Additional information has been received about Peoria attorney, former mayor and state representative Robert G. Day Jr., whose death on March 18 was reported in the April issue of the ISBA Bar News.
A 1938 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Day served in the Army artillery and judge advocate branch in Europe during World War II.
Chair of the 1970 Constitutional Convention Site Selection Committee, he has been secretary of the Constitutional Study Commission as a member of the Illinois General Assembly.
A student of the history of the Peoria Party, he wrote an account that was published in the Bureau of Land Management's Cultural Resources Series No. 9, "Oregon Trail Histories." He lectured on the Peoria Party and chaired the curriculum committee of the Bradley University Institute for Learning in Retirement.
Mr. Day chaired a committee to promote passage of a Peoria school referendum, and he was a president of the Glen Oak School and City Council PTAs.
Anthony Dyhrkopp
Former Gallatin County state's attorney Anthony W. Dyhrkopp died April 10 at age 57 after a heart attack in his Gold Hill Ranch home in Shawneetown.
A 1975 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Dyhrkopp was a legal advisor for the Illinois Secretary of State's Administrative Hearings Department in Mt. Vernon.
In addition to private practice, he had been an assistant Illinois attorney general between two terms as state's attorney, handling revenue litigation and consumer fraud matters.
Richard Eckert
Retired Freeport attorney Richard Frothingham Eckert, a third-generation family lawyer, died April 9 at age 72. He was the son of Robert P. Eckert Jr. and the grandson of Robert P. Eckert.
A 1958 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Eckert practiced with Eckert, Schmelzle & Eckert, which merged with Kroeger, Burt & McClanathan. He retired from Schmelzle & Kroeger in 2001.
Mr. Eckert served on the boards of the Highland College Foundation, the Freeport YMCA, the Norman C. Sleezer Youth Home and Parkview Home, and was a past president of the Jaycees and Rotary Club.
He chaired the Freeport Economic Development Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and the United Way campaign, and was a volunteer in the Jane Addams in-school mentoring program.
Alfred Israelstam
Retired Chicago attorney Alfred W. Israelstam died April 15 at age 96. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1934.
James Jorzak
Cook County Judge James J. Jorzak died May 1 at age 40 in his Chicago home. Illness had kept him off the 1st Municipal District bench since November.
A 1990 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, Mr. Jorzak was a sole practitioner and staff counsel for a Chicago alderman before his election to the circuit court in 1996. He was the son of retired judge Richard H. Jorzak, who died in 2000.
Neil McKay
Retired Chicago attorney Neil McKay, former vice chair of the First Chicago Corp. and First National Bank of Chicago, died April 15 at age 87 in his Geneva home.
A 1946 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School after Navy service in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II, Mr. McKay was a partner in Winston & Strawn from 1953 to 1963. Joining First National that year as associate general counsel, he was elected corporate vice chair in 1975.
Mr. McKay served on the boards of Baird & Warner, the Kerr-McGee Corp., Morton-Thiokol, LaSalle Steel and the Visa Corp. He was a trustee of the Illinois Institute of Technology and a board member of the Chicago Botanic Garden and Morton Arboretum.
R. Lloyd Middleton
Retired Pinckneyville attorney Robert Lloyd Middleton, a former Perry County state's attorney, died April 6 at age 95 in Pinckneyville Hospital Skilled Care Unit.
A 1936 graduate of the Benton College of Law in St. Louis who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1943, Mr. Middleton practiced in St. Louis and East St. Louis before moving to Pinckneyville in 1949.
He was state's attorney from 1952 to 1960 and again from 1976 to 1980, and he was president of the Illinois State's Attorneys Association during his second term.
Eugene Morris
Retired commodities broker Eugene N. Morris of Oak Brook, a 1951 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, died May 1 at age 82 after brain surgery in Hinsdale Hospital.
Mr. Morris was a Navy lieutenant on a PT boat in the Pacific during World War II. He had been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1945 and also belonged to the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Kansas City Board of Trade and the Minneapolis Board of Trade.
George Murtaugh
Chicago criminal defense attorney George J. "Duke" Murtaugh Jr. died April 14 at age 65 in his Oak Lawn home of malignant brain tumors.
A 1965 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Murtaugh was an assistant Cook County state's attorney for three years. He was co-prosecutor of Richard Speck, who murdered eight student nurses.
Mr. Murtaugh joined Coghlan, McGloon, Joyce & Murphy in 1968 and opened a sole practice several years later. In 1999, he represented the Committee on Character and Fitness before the Illinois Supreme Court to deny admission to the bar by Matthew Hale.
Michael O'Brien
Retired 16th Circuit judge Michael F. O'Brien, a resident of Rockwall, Texas, died April 3, when his car left Interstate 80 near Iowa City, struck a culvert and overturned.
A 1963 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, Mr. O'Brien was a partner in the St. Charles firm of Redman, Shearer, O'Brien, Blood, Agrella & Boose until his election to the circuit court in 1981.
He stepped down in 1995 after admitting that his claim of having received a Congressional Medal of Honor during Navy service was false, and he returned to law practice in Kane County.
Mr. O'Brien was a past president of the St. Charles Optimist Club, past vice president of the St. Charles Baseball Association and former director of the Baker Retirement Center. In 1989 he received a Law and Justice Award from the Optimists and a Distinguished Service Award from Operation Snowball.
A recovering alcoholic, Mr. O'Brien was the author of "The Lawyers' Assistance Program: Tough Love for Tough Problems" in the Kane County Bar Briefs in 1992. His articles on radar speed detection and conservators' rights were published in the Illinois Bar Journal.
Nello Ori
Retired 19th Circuit judge Nello Ori of Highland Park died May 3 at age 92 in his home. Born in Modena, Italy, he was a 1943 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Ori was appointed as a magistrate in 1965 and retired from the bench in 1971.
Hugh Patinkin
Hugh Marks Patinkin, chairman and chief executive officer of Whitehall Jewellers, died March 30 at age 54 of a heart attack. A 1975 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he practiced with Sidley & Austin for four years.
In 1979, Mr. Patinkin joined the State Street jewelry firm that had been founded by his grandfather. Under his leadership, the organization grew from 10 locations to 384 mall-based stores in 38 states.
Charles Porcellino
Retired Cook County Judge Charles E. Porcellino, who served in the 3rd Municipal District in Rolling Meadows, died April 6 at age 64 near Roscoe, en route to a hospital after suffering an aneurysm.
A 1972 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Porcellino worked for two years in the Commonwealth Edison legal department before joining Nadler & Porcellino, later Nadler & Nadler, as a matrimonial lawyer. He opened a sole practice in 1976.
Mr. Porcellino was appointed to the circuit court in 1985. He retired in 2003 and moved to the Rockford area. He was a contributor to the Justinian Society Scholarship Fund.
Kenneth Prince
Retired Cook County judge Kenneth C. Prince, a past president of the Chicago Bar Association, died in April at age 92. He was a 1934 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
A board member of the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education for many years, Mr. Prince received its Addis E. Hull Award of Excellence in 1991. He also was a past president of the Chicago Bar Foundation.
Marshall Ravich
Retired Chicago attorney Marshall Ravich died in May at age 74. A 1959 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he owned the Bertash Wholesale Meat Co.
Norman Waite
Retired Chicago attorney Norman Waite died April 17 at age 100 in Sarasota, Fla. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1932 and retired in 1970.
Mr. Waite began his securities practice with Pam, Hurd & Reichman, which eventually became Schiff Hardin. In 1953, he became a name partner in Dallstream, Schiff, Hardin, Waite & Dorschel. The firm became Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton in 1964 and was Schiff, Hardin & Waite from 1973 to 2003.
Barry Wesson
Former Illinois attorney Barry Eugene Wesson died March 16 at age 41 in his Tempe, Ariz., home. He was a 1989 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.
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