Seeing huge health insurance cost increases again this year? The ISBA is working on a solution but we need your help! After a successful response to our initial member survey, the ISBA is moving on to the next phase of our project to explore the development of a group health insurance offering for members’ law firms. While the project is progressing, we remain in the early stages with much work yet to be done, and we need your help.  

Candidates for associate judge vacancies in the Seventh Judicial Circuit have been rated in an advisory poll of lawyers conducted by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).  Ballots were sent to all ISBA members who practice or reside in the 7th Judicial Circuit.  Licensed Illinois attorneys who are not members of the ISBA or are outside the circuit could request a ballot.  The results of this poll are being released to the public at the request of Chief Judge Ryan M. Cadigan.  Candidates are rated as “recommended” or “not recommended” based on whether respondents agree that the candidate “meets acceptable requirements for the office.”  Candidates must receive at least 60% “agree” responses to that question to be rated as “Recommended”. Percentage is based on "agree" responses to each question; "no opinion" responses are not included.

Justice David K. Overstreet of the Illinois Supreme Court will administer the attorney’s oath to 60 new lawyers across two ceremonies on Wednesday, November 4, in the Fifth Judicial District. The group is among 1,572 individuals who will be sworn in and admitted to the practice of law in Illinois during bar admission ceremonies held in the state’s five Supreme Court judicial districts. The first bar admission ceremony in the Fifth Judicial District will begin at 9 a.m. at the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law Auditorium in Carbondale.

Justice Mary K. O’Brien of the Illinois Supreme Court will administer the attorney’s oath to 94 new lawyers on Wednesday, November 4, in the Third Judicial District. The group is among 1,572 individuals who will be sworn in and admitted to the practice of law in Illinois during bar admission ceremonies held in the state’s five Supreme Court judicial districts. The bar admission ceremony in the Third Judicial District will begin at 11 a.m. at the Joliet Junior College Event Center, located at 1215 Houbolt Road.