Grants have helped establish and furnish supervised courthouse waiting rooms for children of witnesses and parties to legal matters, so they need not be exposed to contentious adversarial proceedings.
The tax-deductible contributions have helped the YLD distract youngsters from the realities of court cases by providing rooms full of toys, television sets, DVD players, games and movies.
Grants also have been made to such law-related child advocacy organizations as the Big Shoulders Fund, Horizons for Youth, the Youth for Tomorrow mentoring program, the South Suburban Family Shelter and the West Humboldt Park Center.
Friday, June 24, is the deadline to register for the July 26 event, which will take place at Indian Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale. A 7:30 a.m. breakfast will precede the 9 a.m. shotgun start, and a dinner and auction will follow.
The fees are $150 per person, or $600 per foursome. Non-golfers may attend the dinner for $40 each. For general information, call YLD Council member Gina M. Arquilla at (312) 322-0701. Registration forms may be completed online at www. golfinvite.com/ isba.
To inquire about tax-deductible sponsorships, call Bob Capuani at (312) 735-5977 or Kelley Gandurski at (312) 742-3903.
Decatur Bar breeds pro bono
The history of the Decatur Bar Association's award-winning pro bono program began nine years ago, when its leaders initiated a formal Pro Bono Referral Panel with the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation.
Russel D. Hoerbert, then directing attorney for LLLAF's Decatur office, sent an announcement in April 1996 to each member of the association, requesting assistance in providing legal services to financially eligible clients.
Of the 91 members of the Decatur Bar who responded, 69 elected to accept referrals. In the first year, LLLAF referred 43 cases to local attorneys, who spent 129.75 hours on them.
The association will receive an ISBA John C. McAndrews Pro Bono Service Award this month during the Annual Meeting at The Abbey on Lake Geneva. Decatur Bar members have devoted 131 hours of representation in legal matters for 29 LLLAF clients in the preceding year.
The referral program has expanded beyond Macon County into DeWitt, Moultrie, Piatt and Shelby Counties. A total of 87 practitioners in the five-county service area now provide legal assistance to eligible clients referred by the Decatur office.
Since the inception of the panel, 469 case referrals have been accepted, with an average of about four hours spent on each matter. Most involve family law, and others include consumer problems, housing issues and advanced directives.
Attorneys in the Decatur service area are conscious of the pro bono referral program. The LLLAF office often receives offers from private practitioners to accept clients they have interviewed who meet pro bono eligibility requirements.
The Decatur Bar presented its first pro bono award in 1997 to James P. Brinkoetter Jr. In 1998, the honor was renamed the Russ Hoerbert Pro Bono Award.
Recipients are: Steven W. Perbix, 1998; James A. Jankowicz, 1999; Joseph J. Darflinger, 2000; Frederic L. Kenney, 2001; Hugh H. Rowden Jr., 2002; Howard R. Baker Jr., 2003, and Jeffrey D. Richardson, 2004.
The 2005 Hoerbert Pro Bono Award was presented to Jeffry A. Justice at the Decatur Bar's annual meeting May 25.
CBF presents awards
Six pro bono and public service awards will be presented by the Chicago Bar Foundation during its seventh annual luncheon Wednesday, July 13, at the Renaissance Hotel. Call (312) 554-1206 for reservations.
In addition to awards named for Maurice Weigle, Richard J. Phelan, Edward J. Lewis II, Leonard Jay Schrager, Thomas H. Morsch and the Exelon Corp., the Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Public Interest Law Fellowship will be presented.
Joseph M. Gagliardo has been named managing partner of the Chicago labor and employment law firm of Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin & Tominberg.
Chair of the firm's litigation department, Gagliardo joined as a partner in 1988 after 10 years as an assistant Chicago corporation counsel. He is a former member of the ISBA Assembly and the Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law.
A member of The John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees, Gagliardo is a past president of the Chicago chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Justinian Society and the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans.
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Charles E. Timmerwilke has joined the Rockford office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen as of counsel in defense of civil litigation. He is a certified arbitrator in the 17th Circuit.
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Kathleen M. Murphy and James L. Sawyer have joined Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, as partners in customs and international trade. They were partners in Katten Muchin Rosenman.
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John P. Sieger has returned to Katten Muchin Rosenman, Chicago, as a partner and co-chair of its Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors' Rights Practice. He left the firm in 2002 to join Jenner & Block.
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Peter F. Donati has joined Levenfeld Pearlstein, Chicago, as head of its recently enhanced employment litigation practice. He was with Winston & Strawn.
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Lord, Bissell & Brook has elected Thomas W. Jenkins as chair of the executive committee and appointed Lawrence A. Gray as managing partner. Both have been with the firm for more than 25 years.
Jenkins, a partner in corporate insurance has chaired the compensation committee for three years and served on the executive committee for 10 years. Gray has been facilities partner and chair of the hiring committee.
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Whitman H. Brisky has joined Mauck & Baker, Chicago, as a partner in real estate, business and civil liberties law. He was a founding shareholder in Lindenbaum, Coffman, Kurlander, Brisky & Grippo.
Zaldwaynaka "Z" Scott will become a partner in Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, on Aug. 1 after a stint as the Illinois governor's executive inspector general.
A past president of the Black Women Lawyers Association, Scott was an assistant U.S. attorney for 16 years, including seven as chief of the General Crimes Division, and four years as an assistant Chicago corporation counsel.
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Jamie L. Bas has joined the Belleville firm of George Ripplinger & Associates, from a Chicago firm, in representation of victims of nursing home negligence, professional malpractice, business torts, and serious injury and death cases.
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Stephen P. Niemira has been named business litigation practice group leader at Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard with offices in Belleville, Carbondale and St. Louis.
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Phillip J. Johnson has joined the Chicago office of Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson as of counsel in workers' compensation defense for major insurers and self-insured employers. He is a past president of the Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association.
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James L. Bizzieri has joined Stellato & Schwartz, Chicago, as an associate.
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Steven V. Napolitano, Richard E. Ginsberg and Margaret E. Lomenzo have joined Winston & Strawn, Chicago, as partners. Napolitano will be co-chair of the private equity practice, which includes Ginsberg and Lomenzo.
Firms change partnerships, name listings
Katten Muchin Rosenman is the new name of the Chicago law firm that had been known as Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman or KMZ Rosenman since 2002. It was founded in 1974 as Katten, Muchin, Gitles, Zavis, Pearl & Galler in 1974.
Boodell, Domanskis & Saipe is the new name the Chicago firm formerly known as Boodell & Domanskis. Gary Scott Saipe has been added as a member in the representation of institutional lenders and real estate developers.
Former Elk Grove Village attorney Peter R. Olson has founded The Olson Law Firm, located on the fourth floor at 120 S. State St., Chicago 60603; telephone (312) 629-9900.
Lee A. Gould, an attorney and certified public accountant, is a principal of the new forensic accounting firm of Gould & Pakter Associates, suite 918, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago 60606; telephone (312) 229-1770.
Rejected, elected: Robert Cox filled own vacancy in DuPage
In a rare case of judicial repentance, judges of the 18th Circuit showed that they may have erred when they denied retention to Associate Judge Robert A. Cox in April 1991. Three months later, they re-elected him - to his own vacancy.
A Wheaton attorney and retired judge, Mr. Cox died May 11 at age 73 in the University of Chicago Hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage. A Winfield resident, he lived previously in Glen Ellyn and was a past president of the Lions Club.
A 1958 graduate of the Valparaiso University Law School, Mr. Cox was an adjuster for State Farm Insurance for two years before beginning a legal career as Bloomingdale village attorney.
In 1968, he formed a partnership with Delbert Lyle. Four years later, John W. Darrah, who is now a federal judge in Chicago, joined them, and the firm became known as Cox, Lyle & Darrah.
Mr. Cox was named an associate judge in 1976. Except for his few months off the bench in 1991, he served until his retirement in September 1992.
As presiding judge of the 18th Circuit Domestic Relations Division for four years, he established a mandatory program of child support collection through the circuit clerk's office before that became a state requirement.
Mr. Cox also started a program of mandatory conciliation in cases that involved child custody. After retiring from the court, he practiced marital and family law and mediation.
He served in the Illinois National Guard from 1947 to 1951 and in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1953 to 1957.
Justinians past president headed judges association
Retired Cook County judge Anthony J. Scotillo died May 27 at age 76 of heart disease in Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was president of the Justinian Society in 1972 and of the Illinois Judges Association in 1984.
The son of immigrant Italian parents in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, Mr. Scotillo joined the Marine Corps after high school and served four years. He graduated in 1957 from the DePaul University College of Law.
He began his legal career with Nicholas J. Caruso as Caruso & Scotillo, and after Caruso died in 1963 he opened a downtown general and matrimonial practice.
Mr. Scotillo became a judge in 1971, first serving in the 2nd Municipal District and later in the Law Division and Chancery Division. He retired from the bench in 1991 and continued to practice law.
Survivors include a nephew, Associate Judge John J. Scotillo of the 3rd Municipal District, who is married to Arlington Heights attorney Nancy S. Scotillo.
Lois Baseman
Chicago attorney Lois J. Baseman, an Evanston resident, died in May at age 57. A 1979 graduate of the Washington University Law School, she was senior vice president of probate and estate administration for Bank of America.
Raymond Brodl
DesPlaines attorney Raymond Frank Brodl died in May at age 80. A 1951 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law, he retired in 1984 as secretary and corporate attorney of the Edward Hines Lumber Co.
Earl Byron
Retired Chicago attorney Earl T. Byron, a Park Ridge resident, died in May at age 71. A 1957 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was a partner in Chapman and Cutler.
John Cadwell
Chicago attorney John G. Cadwell died May 24 at age 50. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1981.
Richard Cooper
Retired Geneva attorney Richard L. Cooper, a former Kane County magistrate and justice of the peace, died May 7 at age 94 of heart failure in his home. A 1938 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School, he also received a master of laws degree in 1940.
Mr. Cooper served in the Navy during World War II. As commanding officer of an LST amphibious troop carrier at Okinawa, he was credited with shooting down four Japanese planes.
An assistant Illinois attorney general for two years before opening a law practice in Geneva in 1950, Mr. Cooper purchased the Elburn Herald in 1953 and was its publisher for 50 years. He also was Elburn village attorney.
Mr. Cooper served on the Geneva school board from 1949 to 1952 and on the Kane County board of supervisors from 1967 to 1972. He led opposition to threatened demolition of the old Kane County Courthouse in Geneva.
Survivors include a son, Geneva attorney Stephen M. Cooper.
Maurice Garvey
Chicago defense attorney Maurice J. Garvey, a partner in Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, died May 17 at age 71 of lymphoma in his Oak Park home.
After service in the Marine Corps for two years, Mr. Garvey enrolled in the Marquette University Law School and graduated second in his class in 1960. He practiced with a railroad and a west suburban firm before joining Corboy & Demetrio.
Relocating to Kirkland & Ellis in the mid-1960s, Mr. Garvey left in 1967 to become a partner in Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. He formed his own firm in 1991 and also participated in the Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center mediation program.