ISBA member and Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki has been named bishop of Springfield's Catholic Diocese.
Paprocki earned a bachelor's degree from Niles College of Loyola University and a law degree from DePaul University College of Law. He attended St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein and was ordained as a priest in 1978.
Read more in the Springfield State Journal-Register
Chicago Area
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April 20, 2010 |
People
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April 20, 2010
SCOTUS
- Justices void law banning videos of animal cruelty, New York Times
State
- Lawsuits over Illinois budget mess could be coming, Quad-City Times
Central Illinois
- Paprocki named Springfield bishop, Springfield State Journal-Register
- Suit against deceased B-N priest moves forward, Bloomington Pantagraph
Chicago area
- 3 plead not guilty to armored car robbery plot, Chicago Tribune
Northern Illinois
- Man charged after bringing drugs into police department, DeKalb Daily Chronicle
Southern Illinois
- Former Illinois State Police director calls Mitchell's actions "irresponsible", Belleville News-Democrat
Nation
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April 19, 2010 |
People
Hon. Michael A. Orenic, 85, passed away at his Joliet home last Friday. Orenic was an ISBA Laureate Award Winner in 2006. The Laureate Award, the supreme honor bestowed by the Academy of Illinois Lawyers, is awarded to those deemed to exemplify the highest ideals of the profession. A graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was an Army Air Corps officer during World War II. Elected to the bench in 1964, Orenic was presiding judge in Will County for 16 years while the circuit included Kankakee and Iroquois Counties. He served as chief judge from 1977 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1988, and he retired in 1990 to spend more time with his nine children and ailing wife, who died in 1996. Even before he retired in 1990, Orenic was "legendary" in the Will County courts, said Joliet attorney George Mahoney III, who had nominated Orenic for the laureate honors. "He was a fascinating guy -- a brilliant guy," Mahoney said. "He was a big guy with flowing white hair. He had this physical aura about him. He looked like a judge." The 2006 Laureate Award Winners Obituary: Will County loses a "brilliant" judge
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April 19, 2010 |
ISBA News
[caption id="attachment_10461" align="alignright" width="300" caption="ISBA Committee on Strategic Marketing Chair John Bailen, IJA President Ron Spears, IJA 1st VP Lewis M. Nixon, IJA Secretary M. Carol Pope, IJA 3rd VP Rita M. Novak and ISBA President John O'Brien"][/caption] ISBA President John G. O'Brien presented ISBA street banners to the Illinois Judges Association and its president, Judge Ron Spears, at the Annual Judicial Education Conference on Monday at the Swissotel Chicago. The banners were produced in commemoration of the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The banners were displayed at various locations in downtown Chicago and in Springfield during the year-long celebration. Also on hand for the presentation were IJA 1st VP Lewis M. Nixon, IJA Secretary M. Carol Pope, IJA 3rd VP Rita M. Novak and John Bailen, chair, ISBA Committee on Strategic Marketing.
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April 19, 2010
Central Illinois
- McVeigh prosecutor: Focus on victims of Oklahoma City bombing, Springfield State Journal-Register
- Supreme Court will review case of fired Proctor Hospital worker, Peoria Journal Star
Chicago area
- Supreme Court leaves carp issue hanging, Chicago Tribune
- Prosecutors: Blagojevich brothers belong at same trial, Chicago Sun-Times
- Prosecutors propose list of noes for Blagojevich lawyers, Chicago Tribune
- "Dial-a-Rock" arrests show cocaines popularity in suburbs, Daily Herald
Northern Illinois
- Belvidere alderman checks himself into jail, Rockford Register Star
Southern Illinois
- Trooper Mitchell back in court for civil suit over death of Collinsville sisters, Belleville News-Democra
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April 16, 2010
Central Illinois
- Testimony: Court ordered probe into Beaman prosecutor, Bloomington Pantagraph
Chicago area
- Judge: Man unfit for trial in Roselle molestation case, Daily Herald
- Man to plead guilty to burning 2 sons to death, Chicago Sun-Times
Nation
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April 15, 2010
State
- Illinois foreclosures rise 17.5% in Q1 over last year, Chicago Business
Chicago area
- Two Chicago lawyers advance for federal bench, Chicago Business
- Naperville egg thrower faces new charges, Daily Herald
- Wrigley rooftop club in foreclosure, Chicago Tribune
Southern Illinois
- Granite City baby murder trial nears end, Belleville News-Democrat
Nation
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April 13, 2010
State
- Prosecutors rib Blagojevich for legal woes complaints, Chicago Sun-Times
- Prosecutors, lawyers clash over Blagojevich papers, Rockford Register Star
Chicago area
- Chicago attorney Laurel Bellows in line to head ABA, Chicago Business
- Evanston schools chief warns of "malicious" Facebook site, Chicago Tribune
- Trial opens in fight between cop, Waukegan police chief, Daily Herald
- Berry Chill blames locations on bankruptcy filing, Chicago Business
- Prosecutor says woman facilitated friend's overdose death, Daily Herald
Northern Illinois
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April 13, 2010 |
People
[caption id="attachment_10273" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Wendell Clancy"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_10274" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Michael Clancy"][/caption] Partners at one of Kane County’s premier malpractice and personal injury law firms have been honored for excellence in their profession. Wendell Clancy of the Clancy Law Offices recently was inducted into Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Wendell and his son and partner, Michael Clancy, a 2009 inductee, are among a select few father-son duos nationwide who are ACTL Fellows. Also, Wendell Clancy and Michael Clancy again have been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list for 2010. Michael Clancy was one of the top 100 vote-getters.
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April 13, 2010 |
People
Roger W. Barrett, 94, a partner for many years with Mayer Brown, died earlier this year in Rancho Mirage, Calif., of complications from pneumonia. Mr. Barrett had already started his law carer in Chicago when he joined the Army in 1943. Eventually a captain, he was enlisted for the team led by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson that would prosecute top Nazis in Nuremberg. He was assigned the task of assembling the government's evidence, which included everything from letters and diaries to lampshades made of human skin. He went over some of the evidence with Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering, who he remembered as highly intelligent, arrogant and amoral. "He said that Goering was completely immoral, there was no sense of right or wrong," said his son, Oliver. Click here to read the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune.
