The ISBA’s Rural Practice Initiative Committee created the Rural Practice Fellowship Program in 2020 to increase access to attorneys in rural areas of Illinois. The aim of the Program is to connect rural and small-town attorneys and law firms looking to hire summer law clerks and full-time associates with law students and attorneys interested in practicing law in rural communities in Illinois.
Southern Illinois
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November 17, 2023 | ISBA News
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November 6, 2023 | Practice News
Justice David K. Overstreet of the Illinois Supreme Court will administer the attorney’s oath to 50 new lawyers between two bar admission ceremonies on Thursday, November 9, in the Fifth Judicial District.
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November 6, 2023 | Practice News
The bar admission ceremonies for the 1,360 new attorneys who passed the July 2023 Bar Exam will be held on Thursday, November 9, in all five judicial districts of Illinois. These will be the first bar admission ceremonies held in-person since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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July 22, 2023 | People
George R. Ripplinger, Jr., of Belleville, IL, was born in East St. Louis, IL, on April 19, 1945.
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July 17, 2023 | People
Attorney Eric William Evans was born January 30, 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Gerald W. and Jane A. Evans.
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July 10, 2023 | People
Rebecca Whittington, 62, passed away at the University of Louisville Jewish Hospital on July 8, 2023.
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June 23, 2023 | People | ISBA News
Sarah E. Toney, of Chicago, and Wesley Gozia, of Carlyle, have been elected treasurer and secretary, respectively, of the Illinois State Bar Association. Their terms will last for one year until the Annual Meeting of 2024.
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June 1, 2023 | People
Hon. Larry Olen Baker, 81, of Elizabethtown, IL, passed away May 16, 2023, at Baptist Health Paducah. He was a retired Judge and Retired Lt. Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.
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April 19, 2023 |
Practice News
Chief Bankruptcy Judge Laura K. Grandy of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois will retire on March 11, 2024. The Judicial Council of the Seventh Circuit seeks applications from all qualified applicants to succeed Judge Grandy as bankruptcy judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois with a duty station in East St. Louis, IL.
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October 14, 2022 | People
Bernard G. Heiligenstein, 93 of Carlyle, IL, passed away on Monday, October 3, 2022, at Trenton Village in Trenton, Illinois.