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Edward John Schoenbaum, 83 was called home to be with the Lord on June 10, 2026.

A proud Cleveland native and Browns season ticket holder, Ed called Springfield home for over 50 years. He would enthusiastically encourage and facilitate attendance to any and all Lincoln sites. He was a regular at the old YMCA and may have exercised his jaw as much or more than his body. Ed was a long-time member of Trinity Lutheran Church, an 8 am balcony regular, then Saturday night service, and more recently watched churches online.

The Honorable Carole Kamin Bellows, a trailblazing Chicago lawyer and judge, died on May 29, 2026, in Evanston, Illinois. She was 91. Carole was the first woman in the United States elected to lead a state bar association and went on to serve more than three decades on the bench of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Aronberg Goldgehn is pleased to welcome Michael Lee Tinaglia as a Member of the firm’s Appellate Litigation, Banking and Finance, Business Litigation and Employment Law practice groups.

In his practice, Tinaglia counsels clients on a broad range of business and commercial matters, including lender and debtor litigation, loan and financial litigation and workouts, disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty, corporation and partnership matters, director and officer liability, and liquidation and bankruptcy litigation.

QUINCY – [May 2026] – The International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) has announced that Jim Hansen, a partner at Schmiedeskamp Robertson Neu & Mitchell LLP, has accepted an invitation to join the IADC, the preeminent invitation-only global legal organization for attorneys who represent corporate and insurance interests.