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It's been said. . .
"It's overdue. Pay hasn't gone up since 1999. Associates are working very hard."
Law firm recruiter Mark Jungers on the announcement by some large Chicago firms that they were bumping new lawyer salaries by $10,000 Jan. 1 to $135,000
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“I think we've really turned the corner in Illinois.”
Prof. Diane C. Geraghty, director of the ChildLaw Center at Loyola Univ. of Chicago School of Law, on selection of Illinois as one of four states to receive a MacArthur Foundation grant of up to $7.5 million for juvenile justice reform
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“A judge or candidate for judicial office shall not engage in political or campaign activity that is inconsistent with the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary.”
Heading on Canon 5 of the proposed ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct
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“I don't have a high degree of confidence that we are proposing a code that is constitutional.”
Jan Baran, member of the ABA's commission to revise the model code of judicial conduct, on its proposed Canon 5 after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an 8th Circuit ruling allowing political activities by judicial candidates in Minnesota