In their January 2025 Illinois Bar Journal article, “Powerful or Powerless?,” Thomas Osran and Robert Held focus on amendments to the Illinois Power of Attorney Act that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. Osran and Held note the amendments will help when third parties refuse to honor validly drafted and executed POAs. But, unhelpfully (and perhaps fatally), they add, the law creates no new teeth to enforce unreasonable refusals to honor valid POAs and lists 14 new ways for banks and others to legally refuse to honor otherwise valid POAs.
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January 21, 2025 | Practice News
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January 17, 2025 |
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The Illinois Human Rights Commission is now accepting applications for the Edward Coles Summer Fellowship, which begins on June 2, 2025. Coles Fellows are student-interns who will work with Administrative Law Judges and attorneys in the Office of General Counsel to manage and adjudicate civil rights lawsuits that are brought before the Commission.To apply, law school students should submit a resume, a cover-letter, a transcript, and a writing sample to HRC.Internships@illinois.gov.
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January 13, 2025 | Practice News
“Perhaps no professional shortcoming is more widely resented than procrastination,” states Illinois Rule of Professional Conduct 1.3, Comment [3]. As explained in the Illinois Bar Journal January cover story, “The Procrastination Puzzle,” from a physiological standpoint, procrastination pits two sections of the brain against each other: the prefrontal cortex, which handles logic, reason, and organizational skills; and the limbic system, which triggers our gratification and fight-or-flight reflexes. The problem?
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January 10, 2025 | Practice News
Justice David K. Overstreet of the Supreme Court of Illinois has begun an application process for an at-large circuit judge vacancy in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
The vacancy was created by the upcoming retirement of Judge Douglas L. Jarman, effective January 29, 2025.
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January 10, 2025 | Practice News
The Illinois Supreme Court announced today the release of a newly redesigned Annual Report Administrative Summary for 2023.
The Illinois Courts Annual Report for 2023 contains a summary of the day-to-day operations of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit Court, and highlights judges, court managers, committees, the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, and other justice partners who carry out the work of the third branch of government.
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January 7, 2025 |
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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agence currently has the following open position:
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January 6, 2025 |
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Please join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for a ceremony to remember the Honorable Daniel A. Manion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. The ceremony will be held at the Dirksen Federal Building, Ceremonial Courtroom, Room 2525, 219 S. Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois.
Please RSVP here by Friday, January 24, 2025.
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January 6, 2025 | Practice News
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission), and the Access to Justice Division of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC) have launched the application process for a new grant initiative. Applications for the grant are open now through February 18, 2025.
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January 6, 2025 | Practice News
As of 8:00 am, the following courthouses will be closed on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025:
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January 2, 2025 |
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On June 18, 2024, this court [the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit] issued notice that it proposed modifications to Circuit Rules 46 and 51, and the creation of Circuit Rule 46.1. The court carefully considered the comments received. The court hereby provides notice of adoption of the aforementioned changes, effective immediately [Dec. 31, 2024].
/s/ Christopher Conway, Clerk