September 2008

Articles

• DiVito exemplifies professional excellence
• Lincoln lectures begin
• LAP dinner speaker bet everything, and lost
• ISBA award to Belleville police hero
• Trial skills classes begin, but new students can enroll
• Mt. Vernon courthouse is 150
• Academy seeks nominees for ‘08 Laureates
• Bar honors new chief justice
• Future events
• Lincoln, Law Day, love of liberty
• CLE programs added to fall ISBA Law Ed schedule
• Senior Counsellors hail from throughout state
• Young Lawyers events fund courthouse waiting rooms
• Youth Job Center receives $3,000 Foundation grant
• Web site helps volunteers
• Foundation invites non-profits to review of IRS rule change
• Animal cruelty issues aired
• Brenda Carroll, legal aid mainstay in DuPage County for 20 years, is honored
• Judicial ethics forum planned
• ABA House debates, adopts mission goals statement
• Carthage heard Lincoln between famous debates
• Hancock centennial events
• Tours, programs scheduled along Lincoln’s prairies
• Lincoln connections traced by bar staff members
• Museum slates music program, tea, lectures
• Investiture of Judge Hooks invokes career accolades
• Free seminars on ADR issues being scheduled in Daley Center
• Benefits support Cabrini Green, Connections
• Peoria seminar on vets affairs ends up in air
• DePaul creates hands-on clinics to help public
• Court Rules Committee to review advance payments
• Dees to speak
• Protections for violence victims will be studied in Cook County
• Sheriff confines himself to county jail
• Six women students earn Women’s Bar Scholarships
• Law students prefer lunch with public defender over prosecutor as bid prize
• 3rd Circuit lawyers, judges adopt ethical standards code
• Public defenders will honor Burnette at annual meeting
• Perinatal depression to be aired
• Planned giving speakers sought

Features

• Capitol chronicle
• Attributions
• Hearsay
• Circuit shorts
• Spotlight on pro bono
• Language tips
• The Lawyer’s Office
• Curriculum
• Bookings
• Associations
• Transition
• Epilogue
• Bon voyage