The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois is seeking an assistant U.S. attorney in its criminal division. AUSAs assigned to the criminal division handle a wide variety of cases, including drug trafficking and money-laundering crimes, terrorism-related offenses, firearms, and other violent crime offenses, cyber-crimes, environmental crimes, and a variety of fraud, public corruption, and white-collar offenses. 

The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays. The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law. For the month of February 2021 there were more than 600 referrals given. Here are the results for February 2021:

Join ISBA President Elect Anna Krolikowska and her husband, Eric Hanis, to explore the renowned Sonoma Valley winemaking region. The wine country excursion is scheduled to take place May 12-16, 2022. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected each area of law in different ways, but common themes overlap all practices, including the signing and witnessing of documents, writes Daniel C. Katzman in his March 2020 Illinois Bar Journal article,"Are E-Signatures E-nough?" Court pleadings, settlement documents, purchase agreements, and estate-planning paperwork are a few examples of the countless legal draftings that require multiple signatures. With many lawyers being socially distanced from their offices, staff, and clients, electronic signatures have come to the forefront as a convenient and beneficial tool to the practice of law. Although many lawyers may cringe at the notion of e-anything, e-signatures have been utilized for years, Katzman asks whether e-signatures really can be as legally acceptable as pen-and-paper signatures.