William J. Quinn, age 104, passed away peacefully on October 24, 2015, at Vi at the Glen Care Center in Glenview, IL surrounded by his family, formerly from Winnetka, IL. He was born on May 8, 1911 in St. Paul, MN. He is preceded in death by his father William, his mother Celina, his brother George, his sister Marie and his beloved wife of 65 years, Floy Isabel (Heinen) Quinn. He lived a full and interesting life.
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November 20, 2015 |
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November 20, 2015 |
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John "Jack" Michael Doyle, age 87, a longtime resident of both Flossmoor and Naperville, IL passed away Saturday, October 17, 2015 at Seasons Hospice in Naperville. He was born April 2, 1928 in Chicago.
Jack was a World War II veteran. After returning from the war he graduated from Michigan State University and went on to obtain a juris doctorate from Chicago Kent College of Law. He was an attorney and certified public accountant. He was President and CEO of Cinder's Incorporated, a material service company located on the east side of Chicago, from 1959 until his retirement in 1985. He was an avid golfer and outdoorsman.
Of Jack's many lifelong accomplishments, his most treasured was his sixty-two year marriage to his loving wife JoAnn. He was a former member of St. Raphael Parish in Naperville, a member of the Naperville Country Club. He is survived by his wife JoAnn (nee Hawley) Doyle; his children Maurice (Leslie), Pamela (Steven) MacDonald, John Jr. (Patty) and Mark (Liz) Doyle, Karen (Tim) Leiser and Susan (Tim) Price; "Boppa" to eighteen grandchildren, a sister Joan Caplis and a daughter-in-law Kathy Doyle. He was preceded in death by his son Lawrence, his parents Kathryn and James Doyle and six siblings.
Services have been held.
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November 20, 2015 |
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Chicago attorney Charles Pressman was "an indefatigable champion of the little guy," colleagues said.
"He was a credit to the bar," said Abner Mikva, a former classmate of Pressman's at the University of Chicago's law school who later became a U.S. congressman, federal judge and chief counsel to President Bill Clinton.
"My earliest recollection of Charlie is of a bright, young law student who got excited every time our class discussion veered off towards civil rights, civil liberties or the (U.S.) Constitution," Mikva said. "He was an excellent debater, never wishy-washy, who held his ground and let his passions be known from the start."
Pressman, 92, died of heart failure Oct. 2 at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital. A resident of Lake Forest Place retirement community for the past 3 1/2 years, Pressman had previously lived in Highland Park and Wilmette.
After graduating from law school in 1951, Pressman co-founded Pressman & Hartunian, a Chicago law firm that specialized in consumer fraud, employment discrimination and civil rights violations cases. During the 1950s and '60s, Pressman also was a director of the Chicago chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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November 19, 2015 |
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Levin Ginsburg is pleased to announce that Anthony M. Ochs has joined the firm as an Associate in its Corporate and Real Estate Practice Groups. Anthony is a graduate of The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 2011) where he was a member of the Editorial Board of The John Marshall Law Review, and Northern Illinois University (B.S. Business, Organizational Management, 2007).
Anthony focuses his practice on acquisitions/divestitures, leasing, financing and commercial and industrial real estate transactions. He has represented a variety of clients, from developers of specialty retail chains to real estate investment trusts, and also has experience handling commercial property development, construction and architect contracts, land use and zoning issues, and tax incentives.
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November 17, 2015 |
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Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C. (Reinhart) welcomes registered patent attorney John Paul (JP) Kale to the firm's Intellectual Property Practice. Prior to joining Reinhart, Kale was an associate attorney with a boutique patent prosecution firm in Chicago, where he worked with an array of clients including start‑up and solo inventors.
Kale has a breadth of legal knowledge spanning business organization matters, terms of service drafting, privacy policy issues and contract review. His work includes drafting and prosecuting utility patent applications through final disposition before the U.S. and foreign patent offices in materials engineering, metallurgical alloys and coatings, turbine technology, aerospace control systems, filtering devices and battery technology. Additionally, he performs patent novelty searches, investigates potential infringements and analyzes patent validity.
Kale is a member of the American Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association and the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law and holds a B.S. in material science and engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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November 16, 2015 |
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Two area lawyers with over 40 years of combined experience have opened a law firm in downtown Champaign. Ellyn Bullock and Kristin Solberg have formed Solberg & Bullock, LLC in the old train station in Champaign at 100 N. Chestnut St., Suite 230.
Previously, Ellyn served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Harold Baker, a legal writing and research professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, and as a private practitioner in Champaign. Her practice is predominantly in the area of adoption, including international, domestic, DCFS, agency, related, independent, and contested adoptions, and she has finalized adoptions for over a thousand children in courtrooms all over Illinois.
Ellyn also represents plaintiffs in federal and state court in personal injury matters and violations of constitutional rights.
Kristin has been in private practice and concentrates in all areas of family law; criminal law; and traffic law. She does primarily contested litigation, but is trained in various forms of mediation and is one of few area Collaborative Divorce practitioners, (divorce without court intervention). She is also a Family Law Financial mediator, and a mediator for the Sixth Judicial Circuit’s Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mandatory Mediation Program.
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November 16, 2015 |
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James J. Elson, 84, died at Graham Hospital in Canton Monday, Nov. 9, 2015.
He was born at Pontiac Aug. 5, 1931, the son of Howard J. and Bernadine (Twomey) Elson. He married Nancy Popel at Lena Aug. 7, 1954. She survives, along with their five children, Marygrace (Don Schroeder) Elson, Iowa City, Iowa, Joan Bernadine (Steven) Moore, Chicago, James J. (Alice M. Stevens) Elson Jr., Canton, Stephen P. (Ann M.) Elson, Miami, Fla., and John C. (Andrea M.) Elson, Fort Collins, Colo. He is the beloved grandfather of 10 grandchildren, Stephen, Brian, Charlotte, Gabriela, Michael, Kerri, Joseph, Katherine, Matilda and Edward; two stepgrandchildren, Gabrielle and Grace; and great-grandfather of Olivia. He is further survived by two sisters, Mary Anne Elson, Springfield, and Carol (Victor) Abell, West Lafayette, Ind.
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November 13, 2015 |
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DuPage County Attorney Larry Oldfield has joined with John P. Stock III, Kurt A. Carlson, and William V. McGrath to form the law firm of Stock, Carlson, Oldfield & McGrath LLC. Oldfield brings with him extensive transactional and litigation experience.
Oldfield comes to Stock, Carlson, Oldfield & McGrath LLC from managing his previous law firm, Oldfield & Fox, P.C., located in Oak Brook, Illinois. He obtained his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, and obtained his B.A. from Northern Illinois University after serving three years in the U.S Army, mostly with the 3rd Missile Battalion, 21st Field Artillery. Prior to attending law school, he was a federal agent for two years, working on pattern and practice civil rights cases in a ten state region with DHUD, coordinated with the U.S. Justice Department. He has extensively travelled throughout the world, including Eastern and Western Europe and as part of an archaeological expedition in the Middle East.
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November 13, 2015 |
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Chicago trial attorney Patrick McHale has joined Cavanagh Law Group. McHale brings eight years of experience successfully representing clients in complex medical negligence, product liability, and premises liability cases. He previously worked for Hall, Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC and Lowis & Gellen.
During his career, McHale has successfully tried and defended cases in both state and federal court. He was recognized in 2014 as an Illinois “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine.
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November 12, 2015 |
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ISBA Board member Bridget Duignan has become a partner with Latherow Law Offices and the firm name has been changed to Latherow and Duignan. She focuses her practice on plaintiff’s medical malpractice, construction negligence and personal injury. She is a former assistant counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Michael J. Madigan.
Duignan received her from B.A., Illinois State University and J.D., The John Marshall Law School. Her ISBA activities include Assembly (2008-present) and Tort Law Section Council (2011-present).