ISBA News

On December 12, 2025, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Judges Association presented a joint CLE program, "The Legal Profession: Caretakers of Democracy," during the ISBA/IJA Midyear Meeting at the JW Marriott Chicago. 

The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) is in the process of converting to a new association management system (AMS). Our AMS is the membership database that serves as the backbone for most of our technology systems.  

As of Friday, February 6, 2026, all CLE programming and the ISBA bookstore are back online. 

The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) oposes recently introduced S.B. 2964 and H.B. 4931, both of which would allow non-attorneys to do property tax appeals. The enactment of these bills would violate the Illinois Supreme Court's decision in In re Yamaguchi, 118 Ill. 2d 417 (1987), which found that real estate tax appeals constitute the practice of law.

The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) is in the process of converting to a new association management system (AMS). Our AMS is the membership database that serves as the backbone for most of our technology systems.