The Illinois State Bar Association invites Young Lawyers Division (YLD) attorney members to establish yourselves as experts in your practice area and compete for your share of $5,000 in prize money by entering the Annual Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest.

Submissions should be useful, practical articles on topics important to practicing lawyers. Submissions will be considered for publication in the Illinois Bar Journal.

Until recently, former trial judge and Illinois Appellate Court Justice Gino DiVito had served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Illinois Evidence since its inception. In his June Illinois Bar Journal article, “In Defense of Rejected Proposals,” the former justice documents rejected proposals from 2013, the source of certain evidence rules, and why some rules have been reserved or are otherwise absent.

Justice Elizabeth M. Rochford and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Associate Judge Kimberly DiGiovanni as an At-Large Circuit Judge in the 16th Circuit Kane County.  

Corporal—or physical—punishment or discipline of a minor remains legal in Illinois—at least when it comes to the infliction of corporal punishment by a parent or guardian, writes Katharine Pancewicz in her June Illinois Bar Journal article, “A Balancing Act.” Pancewicz focuses on corporal punishment inflicted by parents or guardians and briefly touches upon corporal punishment by professionals such as teachers.