Lynn A. Gaffigan (right) of Lake Bluff has been elected president of the Chicago area chapter of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR).
A member of the mediator panel of Judiciasl Dispute Resolution Inc. in Chicago since 1997, Gaffigan is a 1990 graduate of the Emory University School of Law who began her career with King & Spalding in Atlanta.
She serves on the board of the Mediation Council of Illinois and is a volunteer mediator, trainer and peer reviewer for the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago. She is a past co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.
Gaffigan has taught mediation at the DePaul University School for New Learning. She serves on the advisory panel for the Northwestern University Mediation Project and is a practitioner member of the Academy of Family Mediators.
ATG promotes trio of senior vice presidents
Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund has promoted Michael K. Brandt, Jerry Gorman and Arthur D. Wilkins to new positions as senior vice presidents and announced several other staff appointments.
Brandt, ATG's general counsel, oversees corporate legal matters, including title insurance claims. Gorman, who chairs the ISBA Committee on Legal Technology, heads ATG's downstate operations and technical development. Wilkins is chief operating officer with responsibility for new product development.
August R. Butera has been named senior vice president and associate general counsel. He manages the legal department in Chicago, handling title and closing claims. He also is president of an ATG subsidiary, The Judicial Sales Corp.
Henry L. "Hank" Shulruff has been promoted to vice president of business development. He also is president of Capital Funding Corp. a subsidiary that develops and implements innovative mortgage banking for members' real estate clients.
Davis S. Huffman has been named vice president of Chicago operations. He was president of Northland Title and a vice president of the Chicago Title Agency of Rockford.
Amy Grace has been promoted to managing attorney of ATG's Indiana operations. Marianne Raimondi has been named a staff attorney in the underwriting department.
ATG has appointed Jeffery T. Thomas senior manager of the information systems department. Former district manager for New Technology Partners, he is a certified Microsoft solutions provider.
Newly appointed ATG senior managers are David Fernandes, underwriting; Mary Beth McCarthy, corporate communications; Anthony W. Osinga, finance; Hugh Pollard, escrow services, and Mona L. Stevens, personnel services.
Fernandes manages underwriting activities in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, and supervises underwriting for the Bar Plan Title Insurance Co. in Missouri. He is coordinating ATG's entrance into the Oklahoma market.
McCarthy oversees all aspects of ATG printed materials, advertising, media relations, and communication with members and employees.
Bar Foundation to receive gift from lawyer's estate
The Illinois Bar Foundation expects to receive a major bequest of between $120,000 and $150,000 from the estate of former Illinois attorney Enoch A. Frederick.
A 1937 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law and an ISBA member since 1945, Mr. Frederick died Nov. 15, 1999, at the age of 91. He was a privileged member of the state bar association.
Mr. Frederick attended high school in Crown Point, Ind., and attended Boston University before entering the DePaul law school. He was in the legal department of Allstate Insurance Co. for several years before moving to Los Altos, Calif.
The Illinois Bar Foundation is a beneficiary in the will Mr. Frederick drafted in 1986. A distribution is expected late this month or in early May, said Douglas M. Barringer, ISBA director of administration and assistant treasurer of the foundation.
"We do mailings from time to time encouraging members to consider the Bar Foundation in their estate planning," Barringer said. Mr. Frederick may have learned of the foundation through such a mailing or an article in the ISBA Bar News.
The Bar Foundation also receives tax-deductible funding from ISBA members through the dues check-off, memorial and honorary contributions, and the Fellows program of pledges of $1,000 or more.
The foundation was established in 1951 to provide charitable support to organizations that improve and facilitate the administration of justice, promote legal research and continuing education, and publish and distribute law-related works.
An assistance program offers emergency financial support for disabled attorneys and their families.
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By James R. Covington III
Director of Legislative Affairs
The General Assembly is going to send fewer bills to Governor Ryan than last year in this appropriations' year. This is a sampling of what is going on in Springfield.
Preservation of Evidence. House Bill 4593 (Giles, D-Chicago; Petka, R-Plainfield) requires law enforcement agencies and state's attorneys' offices to preserve, subject to a continuous chain of custody, all