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May 12, 2026 | ISBA News
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May 11, 2026 | Practice News | People
Aronberg Goldgehn is pleased to welcome Michael Lee Tinaglia as a Member of the firm’s Appellate Litigation, Banking and Finance, Business Litigation and Employment Law practice groups. In his practice, Tinaglia counsels clients on a broad range of business and commercial matters, including lender and debtor litigation, loan and financial litigation and workouts, disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty, corporation and partnership matters, director and officer liability, and liquidation and bankruptcy litigation. -
May 11, 2026 | Practice News
Alluding to the legend of the Gordian knot, in which Alexander the Great found it easier to slash apart a knot so complex it could not be untied, Jay E. Harker, in his May Illinois Bar Journal article, “Solving the Gordian Knot: Three Estate-Planning Conundrums for Blended Families,” notes that as many as one in every five children in the U.S. -
May 8, 2026 | CLE
Structuring Remote Patient Monitoring Strategies: Managing Compliance Challenges Live Webcast Tuesday, June 2, 2026 1:00 – 2:35 p.m. 1.25 hours MCLE credit -
May 8, 2026 | Practice News | People
Aronberg Goldgehn is pleased to welcome Christopher Niro back to the firm as a Member of the firm’s Intellectual Property, Business Litigation, Business Law and Transactions, and Privacy, Cybersecurity and Technology Law practice groups. -
May 6, 2026 | ISBA News
Access to justice in rural communities continues to be a challenge facing the legal profession. The ISBA Rural Practice Fellowship Program was created to help meet that need by connecting law students and attorneys with law firms in rural and small-town Illinois. -
May 6, 2026 | Practice News | People
QUINCY – [May 2026] – The International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) has announced that Jim Hansen, a partner at Schmiedeskamp Robertson Neu & Mitchell LLP, has accepted an invitation to join the IADC, the preeminent invitation-only global legal organization for attorneys who represent corporate and insurance interests. -
May 5, 2026 | Practice News
Justice David K. Overstreet of the Illinois Supreme Court will administer the attorney’s oath to 12 new lawyers on Wednesday, May 6, in the Fifth Judicial District. The group is among 279 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 Fifth Judicial District will begin at 2 p.m. at the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts located at 2600 Richview Road in Mt. Vernon. -
May 5, 2026 | CLE
Family Law Series: A View From the Bench – Criminal and Civil Contempt -
May 5, 2026 | Practice NewsJustice Lisa Holder White of the Illinois Supreme Court will administer the attorney’s oath to five new lawyers on Wednesday, May 6, in the Fourth Judicial District. The group is among 279 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.