Inn of Court holds election

Eric N. Macey, a founding partner in the Chicago firm of Noback & Macey, was installed July 1 as president of the 80-member Chicago-Lincoln American Inn of Court.

Other new officers are Vice President Sheryl Jaffee Halpern of Patzik, Frank & Samotny, and Secretary Christina D. Harrison of Williams, Montgomery & John.

David L. Applegate and Bradley C. Nahrstadt are membership chairs, Mitchell B. Goldberg and Brian J. Murray are pupilage chairs, and Moyenda M. Knapp is social and hospitality chair.

A 1978 high honors graduate of the George Washington University Law Center, Macey has a master's degree in communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Chicago-Lincoln Inn meets monthly for discussion programs on improving the skills, professionalism and ethical awareness of the bench and bar.

Ducks Unlimited honors lawyers

Wilmette attorneys Charlotte Adelman, a past president of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, and Bernard Schwartz were honored July 2 during a ceremony that opened the Mola Prairie and Wetland Preserve.

The 60-acre project at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie near Joliet was dedicated to Adelman and Schwartz in recognition of their passion and support for prairie and wetland conservation.

A joint effort of Ducks Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service, with a grant administered by CorLands, Mola is a high-quality prairie and wetland habitat that has more than 100 species of plants.

The two attorneys have written books about prairies and have visited many of them during extensive travels in the state and nation.

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Chicago attorney Curt N. Rodin, a past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, received the organization's Leo-nard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award on June 6 during the annual convention.

He is a partner in Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak & Kohen.

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Chicago attorney Elizabeth L. Corey of Foley & Lardner, along with Bruce Keyes of the Milwaukee office and other participants in the University of Illinois Chicago South Campus development project, were honored in May during a Brownfields 2008 conference in Detroit.

The project received a Community Impact Award at a Phoenix Awards ceremony for improvement to an area that was deemed a brownfield site in 1985.

The Foley team managed environmental issues, assisted in commercial leasing, and enhanced relationships between the school and private developers.

Negotiations with the Illinois Environ-mental Protection Agency streamlined the cleanup process approval and synchronized it with steps in the redevelopment.

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Barbara M. Flom of Jenner & Block, Chicago, received an Outstanding Member of the Year Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers on July 16 during its annual luncheon in New York City.

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The diversity committee of Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago, has presented its 2008 Woman of Vision Award to Marsha Serlin, founder in 1978 of United Scrap Metal, an innovative recycling business.

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Michael G. Bailey of Foley & Lardner, Chicago, has been appointed to the 21-member federal Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities and to its Government Entities: Tax Exempt Bonds project team.

Bailey chairs the Committee on Tax Exempt Financing of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation.

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ISBA Assembly member Antonio M. Romanucci of Romanucci & Blnadin, Chicago, has been elected to the board of directors of the Public Justice Foundation, which supports the work of Public Justice, a national public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C.

Amy M. Gulinson of the Corporate Services Group at Quarles & Brady, Chicago, has been elected to the board of directors of the Chicago Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law Firms.

Steven V. Hunter of Quarles & Brady's Commercial Litigation Group has been elected to the Chicago Sinfonietta board and serves on its development committee.

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Frederic R. Klein, chair of the Litigation Group at Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, has been appointed to the board of The Ragdale Foundation, a creative community for artists.

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ISBA member Gary E. True of Hepler, Broom, MacDonald, Hebrank, True & Noce, St. Louis, has received a master of laws degree in taxation from the Washington University School of Law. True also has a master's degree in business administration from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.