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  • June 26, 2014 | ISBA News | Events
    IBF to host reception honoring Paula H. Holderman on July 17

    Please join the ISBA Board of Governors and the IBF Board of Directors at a reception honoring ISBA Immediate Past President Paula H. Holderman. The reception will be held on Thursday, July 17, from 5-7 p.m. at the ISBA Chicago Office. Tickets are $50.

    Register online or by calling the IBF at 312.726.6072.

    Sponsorship opportunities are also available.

    The Illinois Bar Foundation is the charitable arm of the Illinois State Bar Association and is dedicated to improving access to justice to those most vulnerable, helping attorneys and their families in need, and to providing year-long legal Fellowships to new attorneys working in legal aid clinics.

  • May 29, 2014 | ISBA News
    2 Minutes with the President: Paula H. Holderman interviews Marron Mahoney and Brian Monico

    ISBA President Paula H. Holderman interviews Marron Mahoney and Brian Monico, co-chairs for the New Lawyer Task Force, about how the ISBA is helping law students and new lawyers and plans to further assist those entering the practice of law.

  • May 15, 2014
    2 Minutes with the President: Paula H. Holderman interviews Cook County ASA Joe Hudson

    ISBA President Paula H. Holderman interviews Joe Hudson, Assistant State's Attorney with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, about his extensive work on a non-traditional UPL case. That work won him an ISBA Presidential Commendation Award.

  • May 2, 2014 | ISBA News
    President Holderman presents Cook County prosecutor with Presidential Commendation Award

    Joseph Hudson, a prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, has received a Presidential Commendation from the Illinois State Bar Association for his extensive work on a complex case that involved a non-lawyer doing business on mechanics lien cases.

    The award was presented by ISBA President Paula H. Holderman during the organization’s Board of Governors meeting in Chicago on May 2.

    The case, which took five years to resolve, involved Steve Boucher, owner of Contractor’s Lien Services, who filed invalid liens against property owners and was charged with intimidating homeowners either to pay debts they didn’t owe or to overpay for debts incurred with contractors. Boucher hired lawyers to draft legal documents for the firm’s clients.

    The matter was brought to the attention of the ISBA Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, which in turn worked with the State’s Attorney’s office and the Illinois Attorney General's office who brought a lawsuit against Boucher and his company, and sought a permanent injunction to prevent the defendant from engaging in selling mechanics lien filing and collections services in Illinois.

    A judge ruled that the case constituted the unauthorized practice of law and enjoined the plaintiff and his company from engaging in selling mechanics lien filing and collections services in Illinois.

    The text from Mr. Hudson's acceptance speech is available below:

  • April 22, 2014 | ISBA News
    ISBA Mutual holds Board election

    During its Annual Meeting on April 18 at its Chicago headquarters, ISBA Mutual Insurance Company re-elected several board members to another three-year term. They are Jack Carey, David A. Decker, James J. DeSanto, Robert K. Downs, Christopher Mullen and John E. Thies.

    The board also announced its newest member, Paula H. Holderman, president of the Illinois State Bar Association, who was elected to a three-year term.

    In remarks at the meeting, Jon DeMoss, president and CEO of ISBA Mutual Insurance Company, stated that “the company has retained our “A” Excellent Rating from A.M. Best Rating Company and that the Board of Directors declared a 10 percent policyholder dividend for 2013 equaling $1.7 million.” The company has returned a total of $14.7 million to policyholders since 2000.

  • April 17, 2014 | ISBA News
    2 Minutes with the President: Paula H. Holderman interviews ABA Past President Laurel Bellows - Part 1

    ISBA President Paula H. Holderman speaks with ABA Past President Laurel Bellows on the importance of court funding.

  • April 17, 2014 | ISBA News
    ISBA leaders participate in ABA Days

    ISBA President-Elect Richard D. Felice (from left), ISBA President Paula H. Holderman, Rep. Mike Quigley, past ABA President Laurel Bellows, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride and CBF legislative director Jessica Bednarz at an April 9, 2014 dinner honoring Rep. Quigley in Washington, D.C. As part of ABA Days, the Illinois delegation lobbied on Capitol Hill for increased funding for the Legal Services Corporation and against tax reform bill that would negatively impact lawyers and other professional service providers.

  • March 27, 2014 | ISBA News
    2 Minutes with the President: Paula H. Holderman interviews ISBA Mutual Chair John O'Brien

    ISBA President Paula H. Holderman interviews ISBA Past President and current Chair of ISBA Mutual John G. O'Brien about the company's history and activities to celebrate its 25th anniversary year.

  • March 13, 2014 | ISBA News
    2 Minutes with the President: Paula H. Holderman interviews Justice Jesse Reyes

    ISBA President Paula H. Holderman interviews 1st District Appellate Justice Jesse Reyes. They discuss the importance of diversity in the bench and bar and why community outreach to inspire youths to join the legal profession is so important.

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  • February 28, 2014 | ISBA News
    President Holderman speaks at Lake County Jefferson Inn of Court

    ISBA President Paula H. Holderman was the dinner speaker at the Lake County Jefferson Inn of Court meeting in Lake Bluff on February 24, 2014.  Pictured are (from left) Inn President Greg Nikitas, Associate Judge Christy Bishop, President Holderman and Circuit Judge James Booras.