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  • June 19, 2012 | People
    Lawrence Halley Hunt, Jr. 1948-2012

    Lawrence Halley Hunt, Jr., age 68, passed away on Friday, April 27 at Evanston Hospital. He was born in Chicago in 1943. He was a current resident of Glenview and a former resident of Winnetka.

    He received his B.A. cum laude from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1965), Certificat, Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris, France (1966), and his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law (1969)

    Mr. Hunt joined the law firm of Sidley, Austin LLP (Chicago) in 1970, and was made partner in 1975. He became a member of the firm’s Executive Committee in 1985. He started his own legal consulting firm upon retirement in 2007 called Hunt Consulting LLP. He served as head of the firm’s Derivatives, Financial Services and Litigation practice group. He represented brokerage firms, financial and professional services firms, domestic and foreign banks, multinational industrial corporations, grain companies and cooperatives. He was a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, a Fellow of the Foundation of the American Bar Association, and a member of the ABA Subcommittee on Futures and Options.

  • June 12, 2012 | People
    Philip H. Corboy, founder of Corboy & Demetrio, passes away

    Noted trial lawyer Philip H. Corboy, a Laureate in the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers, died Tuesday morning at his Chicago home. He was 87 years old. 

    Corboy graduated first in his class from Loyola University School of Law and was sworn into the Illinois bar on January 17, 1949. He later founded the law firm of Corboy & Demetrio -- often referred to as the Corboy College of Law for serving as a training ground for a generation of trial lawyers.

    A nationally-acclaimed trial lawyer, Philip H. Corboy was a champion of the injured, a pioneer in the area of personal injury law and a relentless lobbyist against tort reform.  He was as generous as he was successful and he was very successful. In fact, Philip Corboy lost only one case during his entire career, which spanned more than 50 years, and the case was reversed on appeal.

    The funeral for Philip Harnett Corboy will be held at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 10a.m. 

    Read the full obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times

  • June 6, 2012 | People
    Ray H. Garrison 1922-2012

    Ray H. Garrison, age 89, attorney, author, lecturer, public servant, story-teller and beloved husband and uncle, died at Advocate South Suburban Hospital on May 23, 2012. He was a long-time resident of Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

    Mr. Garrison was born August 6, 1922 in Allen County Kentucky to Emmett Washington Garrison and Ollie Irene Keen. He was the youngest of eight children, all deceased. He married Eunice Ann Bolz October 7, 1961 in Decatur, Illinois. Ray attended schools in Allen County Kentucky graduating from high school in 1940. He graduated with a B.A. degree from Western Kentucky University, a M.A. degree from the University of Kentucky, and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago.

    He was licensed to practice law in Kentucky and Illinois and admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Customs Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. His biographical sketch appears in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He served as Special Assistant, Special Attorney, and Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and as a trial lawyer for the US Government for several years, before becoming the general tax attorney for Navistar International Corporation formerly International Harvester Company.

  • May 31, 2012 | People
    Robert C. Moehle 1920-2012

    Robert C. Moehle, 92, Rockford, formerly of Oregon, died Saturday, May 5, 2012 in Rockford. 

    He was born Jan. 2, 1920 in Okawville, the son of Walter and Minna Miche’ Moehle.

    He was a graduate of Belleville High School and then entered in the Business School of Washington University.

    He joined the U.S. Coast Guard as an ensign and served three years in the Pacific during the World War II.

    He married Eleanor Elrod in Martin, Tenn., on Sept. 28, 1946.

    After Moehle was discharged from the Coast Guard, he finished the School of Law at Washington University and then he and Eleanor moved to Oregon in 1948.

    He owned and operated the Ogle County Abstract Office which later became Ogle County Title Insurance Company.

    He formed a law partnership with Gerald Garard in 1967 and added David Smith to the firm in 1973. In 1977, the firm became Garard, Moehle, & Smith.

    Moehle was active in the Oregon United Methodist Church, the Oregon School District, Rotary, Masons, and the Oregon Golf Club. 

    He was recognized for serving 40 years on the Village of Progress board of directors. 

    Survivors include sons, John Stephen (Claire) Moehle,Vernon Hills, and Dan (Cindy) Moehle, Germantown, Tenn.; grandsons, Stephen, St. Louis, Mo., and Robert, Seattle, Wash.; brother, Edward (Carol) Moehle, Pekin; and many nieces, nephews,  great-nieces, and great-nephews. 

    He was preceded in death by his wife Eleanor on April 25, 2012; daughter-in-law, Diane; and brothers, Fred, Walter, and Melvin.

    Memorial services for both Eleanor and Bob have been held.

  • May 31, 2012 | People
    Richard W. Hall 1923-2012

    Richard W. Hall, attorney, a long-time resident of Park Forest, passed away on Monday, May 14, 2012. He was born on June 3, 1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Hubert and Almeada (Eardley) Hall.

    He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona in 1945, and during the late 1940s, Mr. Hall worked as an analytical chemist for the USDA, a control chemist for Lever Brothers in Whiting, IN, and William E. Thompson Company, in Los Angeles, an instructor in Biochemistry Lab Technique at the University of Utah, and a research chemist in insulin production at Armour Pharmaceuticals in Chicago. He received several patents in chemistry and was involved in the development of the compound 2-4-D.

    Mr. Hall attended John Marshall Law School at night and received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1951. As he began his law practice, he also taught Chemistry at the Chicago Technical College from 1951-55. Mr. Hall served as the village prosecutor in Park Forest from 1961 to 1987.

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  • May 29, 2012 | People
    Kim Edward Presbrey 1951-2012

    Former ISBA Board member Kim E. Presbrey died Saturday as a result of injuries suffered in a plane crash on April 2, 2012. He was born in Aurora July 1, 1951 to Betty and George Presbrey. 

    He graduated from West Aurora High School in 1969, Northwestern Illinois University in 1973 and Vanderbilt Law School in 1976. He was admitted to the state and federal bar in 1976. He began the practice of law with his father at Presbrey and Presbrey. After his father’s retirement he became the principal owner of Presbrey and Associates, P.C.

    He was past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and a member of Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association, Illinois State Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers, Workplace Injury Litigation Group and Kane County Bar Association founder of the Workers’ Compensation Section. 

    Kim authored many articles and taught at many conferences on the subject of Workers’ Compensation. He was an advocate for injured workers and continuously lobbied the Illinois State Legislature on their behalf. His peers voted him a Super Lawyer, Leading Lawyer and Top “100” Trial Lawyer. Since 2008 he has co-authored the Lexis-Nexis Illinois Workers’ Compensation Book.

  • May 18, 2012 | People
    Warren Haskin 1933-2012

    Warren Haskin was a lawyer other lawyers turned to for advice on difficult issues.

    Mr. Haskin spent 40 years with the former Chicago law firm Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, since merged as the Chicago office of K&L Gates. He specialized in corporate, securities and commercial law and was managing partner of the firm before retiring in 1998.

    "Lots of us went to Warren for help," said John Blew, also a partner with Bell, Boyd and recently retired from K&L Gates. "He was a very bright man and a penetrating legal analyst."

    Mr. Haskin, 79, died of complications of lung cancer Sunday, April 29, in his Chicago home, according to his stepdaughter, Ruthie Beam.

    Read the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune

  • May 18, 2012 | People
    William R. Nash 1924-2012

    William Nash was a U.S. Army World War II veteran, a two-term Winnebago County state’s attorney, a circuit judge, an Illinois Appellate Court judge and an avid golfer who got his first hole-in-one at the age of 80.

    To Steve Nash, he was simply Dad.

    “We were very blessed that we had our dad for such an advanced age,” Steve Nash said Monday, speaking for his brother, Robert, and sister, Patricia Cortright. “We were a bit spoiled having him. He was truly devoted to us kids. We always could count on him.”

    William R. Nash of Rockford died Friday at home. He was 87.

    Nash was born and raised in Rockford and spent two years in Gen. George S. Patton’s tank forces in World War II. He was wounded in combat in northern France, for which he received the Purple Heart.

    Nash served two terms as Winnebago County state’s attorney before being elected circuit judge from 1968 to 1977. He served on the Illinois Appellate Court from 1977 to 1989.

    Read the full obituary in the Rockford Register Star

  • May 18, 2012 | People
    Thomas C. Maas 1950-2012

    Thomas Conway Maas, 61, of Fairview passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, April 14, 2012, after a two-year battle with a brain tumor.

    He was born Sept. 23, 1950, in Wausau, Wis., to Mary and Conway Maas. He married Deon (Lock) Maas on June 30, 1979, in rural Farmington. She survives.

    Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh in 1973 and Chicago Kent College of Law in 1976.

    He worked as an assistant state's attorney in Fulton County from 1976 to 1980. For the remainder of his law career, he was in private practice as a partner with John Potter, then as sole owner of Baudino, Potter & Maas, finally serving as "of counsel" to Froehling, Weber & Schell, LLP. Because he so loved the practice of law, he worked part time through his illness, until six weeks before his death. His primary practice was family and criminal law.

    In service to his community, he taught several criminal and juvenile law classes at Spoon River College, was the former president of the Fulton County Bar Association, the Farmington Rotary, the Illinois Association of Boards of Health and the F.C.R.C Board of Directors. He was a charter member of the Fulton County CASA group, a past Cub Scoutmaster and a past board member of the Spoon River College Foundation. During his 33-year membership of the Lincoln Douglas Toastmasters, he held many offices, including division governor of District 54 Toastmasters and participated in many speech contests.

  • May 10, 2012 | Practice News
    Harold G. Belsheim II 1948-2012

    Harold G. Belsheim, II, 63, of O'Fallon, Ill., born July 4, 1948, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, passed away peacefully on Monday, April 9, 2012, at his home in O'Fallon.

    Mr. Belsheim was a partner in the law firm of Belsheim & Bruckert, L.L.C., O'Fallon, Ill.

    He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Ind., an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Mo. He had been practicing law in Missouri and Southwestern Illinois for more than 30 years. Mr. Belsheim practiced specifically in the areas of municipal law, real estate law, large-tract commercial development, and business law.

    Mr. Belsheim was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, St. Clair County and St. Louis Metropolitan Bar Associations, Illinois Municipal League, the Illinois Tax Increment Association, and the Southwestern Illinois Council of Mayors.

    Mr. Belsheim also served on the Board of Trustees at McKendree University, Lebanon, Ill. He was a former alderman for the City of O'Fallon, vice chair of the St. Clair County GOP, and a Republican precinct committeeman for Precinct 16 in St. Clair County, Ill.

    While his work was very important to him and brought him much satisfaction, spending time with his wife and family was paramount. He enjoyed hiking, biking, golfing, and being outdoors. He was a private pilot and spent many hours in the skies. His faith in Jesus Christ was strong and unwavering.

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