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Vincent F. Cornelius, J.D. ‘89, Attorney at Law and Principal in the law offices of Vincent F. Cornelius, has been named a recipient Northern Illinois University Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumni Award for the College of Law.
Every year the Northern Illinois University Alumni Association recognizes the achievements of outstanding alumni through the Distinguished Alumni Award, the F.R. Geigle Service Award, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, and the Outstanding Alumni Award for each of the seven academic colleges at NIU. Recipients are selected based on outstanding professional and ersonal successes, as well as involvement in civic, cultural, or charitable activities. “NIU alumni have gone on to distinguish themselves and Northern in countless ways,” explains Jack Tierney, President of the NIU Alumni Association. “This award program seeks to recognize some of those outstanding individuals who have gone out and achieved great success in their personal and professional lives.”
This year the Outstanding Alumni Award for the College of Health and Human Sciences will be presented to Vincent F. Cornelius, J.D. ‘89, a highly respected sole practitioner.
Cornelius has established the Law Office of Vincent F.
Chicago Area
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April 28, 2010 |
People
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April 27, 2010
Central Illinois
- Peoria County State's Attorney Lyons says office will handle smoking ban violations, Peoria Journal Star
Chicago area
- Doctor sues Chicago hospital after being attacked, Chicago Sun-Times
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April 27, 2010 |
Events
Retired U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Abner J. Mikva will be honored on Thursday, April 29, with the Union League Club of Chicago's Distinguished Public Service Award. A reception will begin at 11:30 a.m. followed by a luncheon at noon. The Union League Club is located at 65 W. Jackson, Chicago. Judge Mikva, a Hyde Park resident who has devoted much of his legal career to fostering civil rights to reduce prejudice in housing, employment and education, will be cited for his decades of exceptional commitment to community and country and scores of significant civic contributions, including service in all branches of government -- as an Illinois state legislator, a U.S. Congressman, legal advisor to a U.S. president and chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia circuit. Currently the senior director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, Judge Mikva and his wife, Zoe, co-founded the Mikva Challenge, a non-partisan civic leadership program that encourages more than 5,000 Chicago youth to serve as election judges, volunteer for political campaigns, and create local activism projects to improve their schools and communities. According to Union League Club vice president, attorney Robert Karton, “this is a singular honor conferred on individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to civic or public service.” Judge Mikva joins a roster of previous Union League Club Distinguished Public Service awardees: entertainer Danny Thomas; Msgr. Ignatius McDermott, founder of Haymarket Center, a Chicago rehab institute; U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois judges Abraham Lincoln Marovitz and George N.
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April 27, 2010 |
Practice News
[caption id="attachment_10741" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Michael B. Hyman, Ameet Sachdev, Larry Yellen, Robert J. Anderson"][/caption] Media Coverage of the Courts will be the topic of Judicial Perspective, a half-hour cable program presented by the Illinois Judges Association (IJA), airing on Chicago Access Network Television, Channel 21 in Chicago, on Tuesdays, May 4 and May 18 at 10:30 p.m. Appearing on the show are program moderator Michael B. Hyman, a Cook County Circuit Court judge and IJA officer; Ameet Sachdev, a legal reporter for the Chicago Tribune; Larry Yellen, investigative reporter for Fox Chicago News; and Robert J. Anderson, a judge in the 18th Judicial Circuit. The Illinois Judges Association, formed in 1971, provides continuing legal support to members of the judiciary and education to the public on matters regarding the court system.
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April 26, 2010
Central Illinois
- Judge removes himself from hearings involving Snow case, Bloomington Pantagraph
Chicago area
- Naperville man picks up bucket of charges in one busy night, Daily Herald
- Will County Sheriff's clerk suspended after drug arrest, Chicago Sun-Times
- Murder suspect's defense given more county funds for investigation, Daily Herald
- Too little, too late for Elgin lawyer, Daily Herald
- Elgin man's trial delayed on murder solicitation charge, Daily Herald
SCOTUS
- Supreme Court steers clear of Asian carp dispute, Chicago Tribune
- Supreme Court free speech challenge to ban on violent video games, ABA Journal
Nation
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April 23, 2010 |
Events
[caption id="attachment_10551" align="alignright" width="175" caption="ISBA President John O'Brien"][/caption] The Illinois Bar Foundation will host a reception honoring Illinois State Bar Association President John O'Brien on Thursday, May 6, at the Metropolis Ballroom, 6 S. Vail Avenue, Arlington Heights. Please RSVP by April 30th to ldriscoll@isba.org or (312) 726-6072. Registration form
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April 23, 2010
State
- House OKs crackdown on excessive speeding, Chicago Tribune
- Durbin says Blagojevich's lawyers have subpoenaed him, Chicago Tribune
- Computer glitch "unseals" parts of Blagojevich motion, Daily Herald
Chicago area
- Elgin man faces new charge for threatening judge, Daily Herald
Southern Illinois
- Ex-alderman gets probation in embezzlement case, The Southern
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April 22, 2010
State
- Blago defense seeks permission to subpoena Obama, Chicago Tribune
- Judge: Blagojevich brothers to be tried together, Springfield State Journal-Register
Central Illinois
- Champaign County judge to hear Beaman's certificate of innocence petition, Bloomington Pantagraph
Chicago area
- Chicago landlord to Milton Bradley: Pay up, Chicago Tribune
- Navy SEAL from Blue Island cleared in Iraqi abuse case, Chicago Sun-Times
- Prosecutors: Woman was killed to prevent her testimony, Chicago Tribune
- Meet Judge Diane Wood, a "philosophical outlier" on the 7th Circuit, ABA Journal
- Mental fitness of accused Darien slaying suspect to be evaluated, Daily Herald
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April 22, 2010 |
Practice News
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edmond E. Chang has been nominated to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Chang is the first Asian Pacific American to be nominated to sit as an Article III judge within the 7th Circuit. Edmond E. Chang is an Assistant United States Attorney with the Northern District of Illinois, where he has served since 1999. He is presently the Chief of Appeals of the Criminal Division, where he has supervised over 300 appeals in the Seventh Circuit. He has also served in various other positions within the U.S. Attorney's office, including Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Section. Mr. Chang is a 1994 graduate cum laude of Northwestern University School of Law and a 1990 graduate cum laude of the University of Michigan, where he received a degree in Aerospace Engineering.
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April 21, 2010 |
People
[caption id="attachment_10610" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Mitchell Edlund"][/caption] The Chicago-based law firm of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson (MBT) has named Mitchell Edlund as a new equity partner. Edlund focuses his practice in business and commercial litigation matters Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson, based in Chicago, is one of the city’s top law firms with 90 attorneys practicing in Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix. The firm specializes in insurance, labor and employment law, commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense and attorney fee disputes.