Dailing gets Equal Justice post

Joseph A. Dailing, executive director of Prairie State Legal Services for the past 28 years, will become the first executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice in January. He has been a member of the coalition since its inception in 2001.

The selection was announced Oct. 27 by the coalition's executive committee, which includes Russell K. Scott of Belleville, president of the Illinois Bar Foundation, and ISBA past president Timothy Eaton of Chicago.

Dailing's salary and office expenses reportedly will be funded for at least three years by an annual grant of $200,000 from the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois.

His responsibilities include improving access to the legal system for low-income residents, creating guidelines for indigent pro se litigants, encouraging greater pro bono participation, and studying the use of alternative dispute resolution.

Board members named

Margaret A. “Peggy” Daley and Daniel P. Broadhurst have been appointed to three-year terms on the 12-member board of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation.

Daley, an attorney, is a member of the Navigant Consulting Inc. Litigation Investigations practice in Chicago and former vice president and associate general counsel of Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations.

Broadhurst, a certified public accountant, is vice president of operations and assistant secretary of the Huron Consulting Group. He previously headed the Economic and Financial Consulting Group at Arthur Andersen.