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Franks, Gerkin & McKenna is pleased to announce that Paula Rieghns has joined the firm.
Paula is an accomplished attorney with impressive experience. Before joining FGM, Paula practiced contract, property, and family law in Sycamore. She has conducted many trials, notably working on a month long precedent-setting trial involving pollutants caused by a factory farm. This trial generated extensive media attention.
Prior to working in Sycamore, Paula practiced insurance defense in Bloomington.
Besides trial work, Paula excels in writing. She has authored appellate briefs and co-authored a supplement to a chapter in the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s Federal Practice book.
Paula is a member of the Illinois and Indiana bar and is also admitted to the Federal General District Bar. She is currently a member of the DeKalb County, Kane County and Illinois State Bar Association. She attended Northern Illinois University College of Law for law school and undergraduate at Indiana University, where she graduated with honors.
Franks, Gerkin & McKenna, P.C. – Law firm of forty years, with practice areas including personal injury, workers’ compensation, litigation, real estate, estate planning, criminal defense, family law, land use and zoning, probate, commercial transactions, bankruptcy, and traffic violations.
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April 23, 2010 |
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April 21, 2010 |
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[caption id="attachment_10610" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Mitchell Edlund"][/caption] The Chicago-based law firm of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson (MBT) has named Mitchell Edlund as a new equity partner. Edlund focuses his practice in business and commercial litigation matters Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson, based in Chicago, is one of the city’s top law firms with 90 attorneys practicing in Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix. The firm specializes in insurance, labor and employment law, commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense and attorney fee disputes.
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April 20, 2010 |
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Keith A. Hebeisen and Kevin P. Durkin, partners at Clifford Law Offices, have been inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Active Academy members are limited to 500 in the U.S. A comprehensive screening process identifies the most distinguished members of the trial bar by means of both peer and judicial review. Hebeisen and Durkin, partners at Clifford Law Offices for more than 25 years, have made a mark in the courtroom through their trial work over the years. Hebeisen has achieved many multi-million verdicts and settlements, particularly in the area of medical malpractice. Durkin also has received numerous multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts, mainly in the area of aviation and transportation litigation.
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April 20, 2010 |
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ISBA member and Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki has been named bishop of Springfield's Catholic Diocese. Paprocki earned a bachelor's degree from Niles College of Loyola University and a law degree from DePaul University College of Law. He attended St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein and was ordained as a priest in 1978. Read more in the Springfield State Journal-Register
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April 19, 2010 |
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Hon. Michael A. Orenic, 85, passed away at his Joliet home last Friday. Orenic was an ISBA Laureate Award Winner in 2006. The Laureate Award, the supreme honor bestowed by the Academy of Illinois Lawyers, is awarded to those deemed to exemplify the highest ideals of the profession. A graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was an Army Air Corps officer during World War II. Elected to the bench in 1964, Orenic was presiding judge in Will County for 16 years while the circuit included Kankakee and Iroquois Counties. He served as chief judge from 1977 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1988, and he retired in 1990 to spend more time with his nine children and ailing wife, who died in 1996. Even before he retired in 1990, Orenic was "legendary" in the Will County courts, said Joliet attorney George Mahoney III, who had nominated Orenic for the laureate honors. "He was a fascinating guy -- a brilliant guy," Mahoney said. "He was a big guy with flowing white hair. He had this physical aura about him. He looked like a judge." The 2006 Laureate Award Winners Obituary: Will County loses a "brilliant" judge
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April 14, 2010 |
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Retired attorney Philip G. Feder, 80, passed away late last month at Memorial Care Center in Belleville. Mr. Feder received both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from St. Louis University. His education at St. Louis University Law School was interrupted in 1952, when he was called to active duty in the Army. Read the full obituary in the Belleville News-Democrat
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April 13, 2010 |
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[caption id="attachment_10273" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Wendell Clancy"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_10274" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Michael Clancy"][/caption] Partners at one of Kane County’s premier malpractice and personal injury law firms have been honored for excellence in their profession. Wendell Clancy of the Clancy Law Offices recently was inducted into Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Wendell and his son and partner, Michael Clancy, a 2009 inductee, are among a select few father-son duos nationwide who are ACTL Fellows. Also, Wendell Clancy and Michael Clancy again have been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list for 2010. Michael Clancy was one of the top 100 vote-getters.
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April 13, 2010 |
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Roger W. Barrett, 94, a partner for many years with Mayer Brown, died earlier this year in Rancho Mirage, Calif., of complications from pneumonia. Mr. Barrett had already started his law carer in Chicago when he joined the Army in 1943. Eventually a captain, he was enlisted for the team led by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson that would prosecute top Nazis in Nuremberg. He was assigned the task of assembling the government's evidence, which included everything from letters and diaries to lampshades made of human skin. He went over some of the evidence with Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering, who he remembered as highly intelligent, arrogant and amoral. "He said that Goering was completely immoral, there was no sense of right or wrong," said his son, Oliver. Click here to read the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune.
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April 9, 2010 |
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Stellato & Schwartz, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Kyle T. Geiger, a recent graduate of the University of Dayton Law School, and Kevin O'Neill, a recent graduate of DePaul University Law School, have joined the firm as associates.
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April 9, 2010 |
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Henry James Marquard, 88, of Glenview formerly of Northbrook, passed away on April 6. A graduate of DePaul University School of Law, he was one of the founders of Kralovec and Marquard. He was commissioned on the USS Heywood and served on the USS George Klymer during the Gaudalcanal Campaign in World War II. Visitation will be on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 3637 Golf Road, Evanston, where a funeral service will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. Interment private at Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the church. Funeral info: 847-998-1020. Click here for the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune.