Elder law, family law, criminal law, civil practice, probate, real estate, bankruptcy and workers' comp: They're all staples, as usual, of the ISBA Law Ed seminar, “Update on Legal Developments for the General Practitioner.”

The program will be presented Friday, March 10, at The Chateau in Bloomington by the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section.

Section council chair Dawn R. Hallsten of Mateer & Associates, Rockford, is the moderator. Program coordinator is assistant Cook County state's attorney Julie Ann Sebastian, a member of the section council and ISBA Assembly.

After Hallsten's welcome and introductory remarks at 8:50 a.m., the substantive updates will begin at 9 a.m. with a discussion of elder law issues by ISBA Assembly member Susan Dawson-Tibbits of Peoria, chair of the Elder Law Section Council.

At 9:35 a.m., family law will be presented by ISBA Assembly member Christopher S. Haaff of Gitlin, Haaff & Kasper, Woodstock, a member of the Task Force on Genetics and Human Reproduction.

At 10:30 a.m., an Update on Probate Law and Estate Planning, and overview of emerging issues, will be given by section council member James F. Dunneback of Orland Park.

At 11 a.m., Champaign County Public Defender Randall B. Rosenbaum of Urbana will provide an Update on Criminal Law. He is a member of the Criminal Justice Section Council and president of the Illinois Public Defender Association.

After the 11:45 a.m. luncheon period, the seminar will continue with the following presentations.

1 p.m. – Update on Real Estate Law, with major court decisions and recent legislative enactments, by Marylou Lowder Kent of Land Title Services of Illinois, Springfield, a member of the Real Estate Law Section Council.

1:30 p.m. – Update on Bankruptcy Code, the impact of changes from the view of practitioner Sumner A. Bourne of Rafool & Bourne, Peoria, a member of the Commer-cial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law Section Council.

2 p.m. – Civil Practice Update, with recent case law decisions and significant legislation, by Patrick M. Kinnally of Kinnally, Krentz, Loran, Hodge & Herman, Aurora, a member of both the Civil Practice and Procedure and the General Practice Section Councils.

2:45 p.m. – Update on Employment Law Issues, an overview with focus on discrimination claims, other claims, court decisions and legislation, by Jill P. O'Brien of Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin & Tominberg, Chicago, a past chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section Council.

3:15 p.m. – Update on Topics in Pro-fessional Responsibility and Discipline, with discussion of new Illinois Supreme Court rules, by Mary F. Andreoni, administrative counsel of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, Chicago, a member of the Committee on Professional Conduct.

3:45 p.m. – Update on Workers' Compen-sation issues and recent legislation, with ISBA Assembly member Bernard Wysocki of Wysocki & Smith, Waukegan, a past chair of the General Practice Section Council

A rapid-fire presentation of 14 essential topics in civil litigation awaits ISBA members who attend a pair of sessions of the Law Ed seminar, “Update and Overview of Civil Practice and Procedure.”

The Civil Practice and Procedure Section will conduct the seminars on Friday, April 28, at the Chicago Athletic Association, and Friday, May 12, at the Hawthorn Suites, Bloomington.

Program coordinator and moderator is Chicago attorney Robert H. Hanaford, newsletter co-editor and past chair of the section council. The schedule follows.

9 a.m. – Registration and Welcome, an opportunity for lawyers, judges and law students to meet.

9:45 a.m. – Proper Parties, Amended Complaints, and Relation Back Doctrine, with Shawn S. Kasserman of Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago.

10:10 a.m. – Pleadings: The Road Map Through Trial, with Robert R. Duncan of Chicago.

10:50 a.m. – Venue and Forum Non Conveniens, with section council member James Matthew Pfeiffer of Fuchs & Roselli, Chicago (in Chicago), and Gwen M. Geraghty of Dykema Gossett, Chicago (in Bloomington).

11:15 a.m. – Discovery: Interrogatories, Document Production and Depositions, with section council member Hugh H. Rowden of McCarthy, Rowden & Baker, Decatur.

11:40 a.m. – Opening Statement, with John M. Stalmack of Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, Chicago (in Chicago), and Thomas M. Harris of Jerome Mirza & Associates, Bloomington, a member of the Illinois Bar Journal Editorial Board (in Bloomington).

12:05 p.m. – Luncheon period.

1 p.m. – Supreme Court Rule 213: Disclosure of Opinion Witnesses, with ISBA Assembly and section council member Russell W. Hartigan of Hartigan & Cuisiner, Chicago.

1:25 p.m. – Supreme Court Rule 216: Requests to Admit, with Robert H. Fredian of Wiedner & McAuliffe, Chicago (in Chicago), and Timothy W. Kelly of the Kelly Law Offices, Bloomington, a member of the Tort Law Section Council, (in Bloomington).

1:50 p.m. – Third Party Evidence: Indemnity and Contribution, with speaker to be announced in Chicago, and section council member Ronald A. Roth of Roth & Evans, Granite City (in Bloomington).

2:15 p.m. – Administrative Review: Timely Filing and Proper Filings, with Thomas M. Battista of Rock, Fusco & Garvey, Chicago, a member of the State and Local Taxation Section Council.

2:55 p.m. – Motions to Dismiss Under Sections 2-615 and 2-619, with Judge Daniel T. Gillespie of Chicago, a section council member (in Chicago), and section council member P. Shawn Wood of Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago (in Bloomington).

3:20 p.m. – Motions for Summary Judgment: Section 2-1009, with section council member James A. Murphy of Mahoney, Silverman & Cross, Joliet (in Chicago), and Catherine J. Casey of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Chicago (in Bloomington).

3:45 p.m. – Enforcement and Relief from Judgments, with Jeffrey D. Corso of Swanson, Martin & Bell, Chicago, a member of the ISBA Assembly and the Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law Section Council.

4:10 p.m. – Closing Arguments, with E. Angelo Spyratos of Momkus, McCluskey, McAndrew & Monroe, Downers Grove (in Chicago), and Frank A. Perrecone of Ferolie, Perrecone & White, Rockford, a member of the ISBA Assembly and the Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law (in Bloomington).

4:35 p.m. – Post-Trial Motions: JNOV, New Trial, and Preserving Issues for Appeal, with section council member Sandra L. Loeb of the Law Offices of Frederick & Hagle, Urbana (in Chicago), and Robert R. McNamara of Johnson & Bell, Chicago (in Bloomington).

Several judges are scheduled to speak during two Traffic Law Updates next month. They will take place Saturday, March 4, at the DoubleTree Hotel, Oak Brook, and Friday, March 24, at the Hawthorn Suites, Bloomington.

Traffic Laws and Courts Section Council member J. Brick Van Der Snick of the Van Der Snick Law Firm, Geneva, is program coordinator of the Law Ed seminars. Summaries follow.

Cook County Judge Lawrence W. Terrell of the 4th Municipal District, Maywood, a section council member, is the moderator.

9:30 a.m. – Potpourri of Traffic-Related Issues, a panel discussion, including immigration and evidentiary issues.

Speakers are section council chair Alan E. Jones of Waukegan, secretary Michelle A. Vescogni of Peru, council member George G. Livas of Skokie, newsletter co-editor Edward M. Maloney of Ahern, Maloney & Moran, Skokie, and Christopher B. Klis of Ramsell, Armamentos & Klis, Wheaton.

10 a.m. – Secretary of State Issues, including graduated driver's licenses, zero tolerance, suspensions, trial and hearing practice techniques, and sentencing issues such as non-alcohol judgments.

The speaker is Marc C. Loro of the secretary of state's Department of Administrative Hearings, Springfield, a member of the Administrative Law Section Council.

10:45 a.m. – Commercial Driver's License Issues, with Larry A. Davis of DesPlaines, newsletter co-editor of the Traffic Laws and Courts Section Council.

11:15 a.m. – Current Legislation, with section council vice chair David B. Franks of the Law Offices of Jeffrey M. Leving, Oak Brook, and Larry Davis.

11:45 a.m. – Current Case Law, a panel discussion with Judges Lawrence Terrell and Charles P. Burns of the 4th Municipal District, Maywood; John T. Doody Jr. of the 1st Municipal District, Chicago, and Mark W. Dwyer of the 18th Circuit, Wheaton. All are section council members.

12:15 p.m. – Luncheon period.

1 p.m. – DUI and Statutory Summary Suspension, a panel discussion including section council members Thomas M. Moran and Edward Maloney of Ahern, Maloney & Moran, Skokie.

Also assistant DuPage County state's attorney Ryan W. Blackney of Wheaton, 18th Circuit Judge Bruce R. Kelsey of Wheaton and Judge Hyman I. Riebman of the 3rd Municipal District, Rolling Meadows.

2 p.m. – Search and Seizure Issues at Traffic Stops, with section council past chair Donald J. Ramsell of Ramsell, Armamentos & Klis, Wheaton.

3 p.m. – Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, Breath Testing and Blood Testing, with George Livas, Donald Ramsell and Dr. Ronald E. Henson.

The program will conclude with an open forum of questions on traffic-related subjects and closing remarks by the moderator.

Section council chair Alan E. Jones of Waukegan is the moderator.

9 a.m. – Potpourri of Traffic-Related Issues, a panel discussion, including non-alcohol moving violations, expungement, motions to vacate, local court rules, service, evidentiary and trial issues, recognition of trial issues versus pleas, and office interviews.

Speakers are section council secretary Michelle A. Vescogni of Peru, council member Kelly P. Ward of Ward & Ward, Dixon, assistant Tazewell County state's attorney Bob A. Neiner of Pekin, and 11th Circuit Judge Donald D. Bernardi of Bloomington, past chair of the Criminal Justice Section Council.

10 a.m. – Commercial Driver's License Issues, with Larry A. Davis of DesPlaines, newsletter co-editor of the Traffic Laws and Courts Section Council.

10:45 a.m. - Current Legislation, with section council vice chair David B. Franks of the Law Offices of Jeffrey M. Leving, Oak Brook.

11:15 a.m. - Secretary of State Hearings and Other Collateral Consequences of DUI and Serious Traffic Offenses, Convictions, Suspensions and Fake IDs, with Larry Davis.

11:45 a.m. – Current Case Law, with J. Brick Van Der Snick.

12:15 p.m. – Luncheon period.

1 p.m. – DUI, Statutory Summary Suspension and Zero Tolerance, a panel discussion including Alan Jones, Bob Neiner, Judge Donald Bernardi and Alan J. Novick of Bloomington.

2 p.m. – Search and Seizure Issues at Traffic Stops, with section council past chair Donald J. Ramsell of Ramsell, Armamentos & Klis, Wheaton.

2:45 p.m. – Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, Breath Testing, Blood Testing, Preliminary Breath Testing Rules and Regulations, and Illinois State Police, with J. Brick Van Der Snick and Bob Neiner.

3:30 p.m. – Sentencing, with section council member Phyllis F. Ringer-Taylor of Glenview.

The program will conclude with an open forum of questions on traffic-related subjects and closing remarks by the moderator.

Two ISBA sections will team up to present a pair of Law Ed seminars next month on “Planning for Business Disputes and Financial Difficulties.”

The Business Advice and Financial Planning Section (BAFP) and Corporation, Securities and Business Law (CSBL) Section will conduct the seminars from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 10, at the ISBA Chicago Regional Office, and Friday, March 31, at the Hawthorn Suites, Bloomington.

Program coordinators and moderators are Leonard S. DeFranco of Oak Brook, vice chair of BAFP Section Council and member of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section Council, and Zane M. Cohen of Chicago.

They will open the seminar at 8:30 a.m. with introductions and welcoming remarks. The schedule follows.

8:45 a.m. – Tax and Trust Fund Issues, with Richard M. Colombik of Itasca, a member of the BAFP Section Council and the Committee on Public Relations.

9:30 a.m. – Should Your Client Consider Bankruptcy? Speakers are Gary T. Rafool of Rafool & Bourne, Peoria, a member of the Committee on Continuing Legal Education (in Chicago), and speaker to be announced in Bloomington.

10:30 a.m. – Employee and Labor Issues in the Troubled Business, with Patti S. Levinson of Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago, a member of the BAFP Section Council.

11:15 a.m. – Questions and answers with morning panelists, followed by 11:30 a.m. luncheon period.

1 p.m. – Planning on an Orderly Exit, with Zane Cohn.

1:45 p.m. – Asset Protection for Shareholders, with Robert C. Kneupfer of Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, vice chair of the CSBL Section Council.

2:30 p.m. – Planning for Alternative Dispute Resolution, with Howard Z. Gopman of Skokie, a member of the CSBL Section Council.

3 p.m. – Issues Commonly Litigated if Planning Fails, with William AQ. Price of Warrenville, secretary of the CSBL Section Council and associate newsletter editor for the Administrative Law Section.

3:45 p.m. – Questions and answers with afternoon panelists.

The second presentation of the ISBA Law Ed seminar, “View from the Bench: Tips for Lawyers in the Civil Practice of Employment Law Cases,” will take place from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office. Luncheon will be provided.

Speakers are Judges Matthew F. Kennelly and Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of U.S. District Court for the Northern District, Chicago, and Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys.

ISBA Labor and Employment Law Section Council member Kathryn M. Woodward of Greene & Letts, Chicago, is the moderator. Discussion topics follow.

Motions for Summary Judgment: In what cases should they not be filed, and how many statements of fact are too many?

Requests to Admit: How many are appropriate, and what are proper objections?

Over-pleading: It is appropriate to include any possible claim in a complaint, and are sanctions awarded, or should they be, for excessive or frivolous counts to a complaint?

Broad Issues Raised by These Questions: Efficiency of litigation, cost of litigation, ethical considerations, and the difference between federal and state practice in these areas.

In addition to the Labor and Employment Law Section, the seminar is sponsored by the Bar Association of the Central and Southern Federal Districts of Illinois.

Educational institutions in the 21st Cent-ury face continuous exposure to civil litigation generated by the huge quantities of data they maintain electronically.

This phenomenon places increasing responsibility on attorneys for universities, junior colleges and public schools to know where electronic evidence is stored, how it will be preserved, and how it must be produced for discovery.

The ISBA Education Law Section will expand on these issues in a Law Ed seminar, “Legal Issues in Education Law: Focus on Risk Management for Educational Organizations in an Electronic Age,” on Friday, Feb. 24, at the Chicago Athletic Association.

Program coordinators are section council members Mary Kay Klimesh of Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, and Deborah Pergament of the Children's Law Group, Chicago. The schedule follows.

9 a.m. – Welcome and Introductions.

9:15 a.m. – What University, College and School Lawyers, Administrators and Business Officials Need to Know About E-Discovery. Speakers are Peter G. Land of Babbitt & Melton, Chicago, and Scott A. Carlson of Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago.

11 a.m. – Forensic Evaluations and Managing Electronic Information in an Educational Setting in Today's Litigious Environment. Speakers are Jonathan Bobb of McGovern & Greene, Chicago; Peter Land and Scott Carlson.

12 noon – Luncheon will be provided, so participants can review education law issues informally during the break.

1 p.m. – Ethical Issues Confronting Edu-cation and Public Sector Lawyers (speaker to be announced).

1:45 p.m. – Managing Risk and Working with Your Insurer. Speakers include section council members Vickie A. Gillio, counsel to Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, and Everett E. Nicholas Jr. of Robbins, Schwartz, Nicholas, Lifton & Taylor, Decatur.

Also Geoffrey L. Isaac of Brokers' Risk Placement Service, Chicago, and David J. Arens of Liberty Mutual Agency Markets Regional Companies, Indianapolis.

3 p.m. – Constitutional and Other Legal Issues Presented by Technology in the College and School Setting. Speakers are Patrick J. Broncato, chief legal officer for Elgin School District U-46; Hector Lareau of Moline, and Deborah Pergament.

4 p.m. – Closing Remarks.