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Jason P. Eckerly has been elected to shareholder status at Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.

Mr. Eckerly is an experienced litigator and trial counsel whose practice focuses on the defense of toxic tort, asbestos and general liability litigation. He serves on many of the firm’s national coordinating counsel teams, developing and coordinating the defense of large corporations across the country.

He is a 1998 graduate of Michigan State University and a 2002 graduate of DePaul University College of Law.

From its roots as a four-lawyer shop in Chicago just over 25 years ago, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., has grown to a law firm with approximately 150 lawyers and offices in Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Jersey City, New York and Philadelphia. To learn more about the firm, visit www.smsm.com.

Eighty-one year old Jack W. Rosen of Highland Park, Illinois died peacefully in the loving arms of his loving family Saturday, January 7, 2012.

He is survived by his wife of 39 years Beverly Rosen and children and grandchildren and a sister and brother.

He was born May 15th 1930 in New York City, moving to Chicago at the age of three with his parents Sam and Ella Rosen, both immigrants from Europe. He grew up in the Humboldt Park neighborhood and spent much of his free time playing basketball and pool at the Deborah Boys' Club on Division Street. When not playing at the boys club, he played stick ball in nearby parks. His parents founded Sam's Wine on North Avenue.

He was a product of Chicago public schools attending Lafayette Elementary School, P.S. 299 in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood and graduated from Tuley High School. He graduated from University of Illinois with a B.S. in management and marketing in 1952. He earned his Law Degree (J.D.) from DePaul University in 1955 and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States of America in 1963. He enjoyed lifelong friendships with many of his DePaul classmates, many of them attorneys who helped build Chicago's legal system. He served in the U.S. Army as a military police officer for two years before heading back to Chicago to start his career.

Professionally, Jack practiced law for 56 years, most of it as a sole practitioner on La Salle Street. He took great pride in defending those less fortunate and those who felt they did not have a voice in the system. Generations of family members engaged his services. He spent hours fighting for the rights of his clients, often against large businesses. He considered himself a small town lawyer in the big city.

Retired Judge Angus Sinclair "Gus" More Jr., 72, died Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, at home with his family.

Gus was born June 26, 1939, in Kankakee to Angus S. and Viola (Fessman) More. He grew up on their grain and dairy farm outside of Kankakee. Being a farm boy provided the background for his great common sense, ingrained work ethic, and a love of the outdoors, a perspective that grounded him the rest of his life.

He graduated in 1961 from the University of Illinois, where he was a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity and head of the Army ROTC's infantry program. One week after graduation he was married, commissioned and headed to Bamberg, Germany, for 20 months as an infantry officer during the tense period of the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin Wall.

He attended law school at American University in Washington, D.C. He was an associate and then a partner at Reno & Zahm Law Firm for 28 years until he was appointed as an associate judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit, where he served for 14 years.

Gus was endearing, intelligent, funny, sentimental, stubborn, kind, generous-and certainly gregarious. He loved all shooting sports whether modern or black powder weapons and was a charter member of Northern Illinois Rifle and Pistol Club while belonging to Rockford Skeet Club and Rock Run Long Rifles, a black powder gun club which he particularly enjoyed. He loved the outdoors and over the years was a hunter of pheasant, waterfowl, deer, elk and more recently, turkey.

The Chicago-based law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is pleased to announce the addition of attorneys Erik Jarmusz and Elizabeth Anne Thompson to the firm’s Chicago office.

With the opening of the firm’s new Milwaukee office, Arnstein & Lehr has 145 attorneys working across 10 offices throughout Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin and Milwaukee.

Erik M. Jarmusz joins as an associate in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. He has significant real estate experience that includes commercial real estate, corporate transactions and office leasing.Jarmusz also has extensive experience negotiating leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants, and has also focused on general real estate transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, 1031 exchanges and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure. He received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago and his law degree, cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law. Previously, Jarmusz was an associate at Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona.