ISBA Director of Legislative Affairs Jim Covington reviews legislation of interest to ISBA members in his weekly ISBA Statehouse Review. This week he looks at Adoption forms (PA 97-493), the Illinois Personal Information Act (PA 97-483), Insurers must arbitrate small subrogation damages (PA 97-513), Cook County landlord and tenants (PA 97-470) and Jurors removed PA (97-436).
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August 25, 2011 |
ISBA News
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August 25, 2011 |
Events
The Illinois Bar Foundation will honor former FCC Chair and longtime Sidley Austin managing partner Newton Minow as the 2011 Recipient of the Distinguished Award for Excellence.The 2011 Gala will be held on Friday, Oct. 14, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Raffle tickets are available now at www.illinoisbarfoundation.org for the following great prizes:First Prize: Barcelona's Paradise -- Trip for two to Barcelona, Spain, for 7 days and 6 nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Arts Barcelona with economy class air. $8,000 value.Second Prize: Broadway Bound -- Trip for two to New York, NY, for 4 days and 3 nights at the Plaza, including the Silver Entertainment Package (Broadway show of your choice), daily complimentary breakfast and economy class air. $5,100 value.Third Prize: $2,500 CashTo purchase tickets to this event or become an event sponsor, contact the IBF at (312) 726-6072 or visit www.illinoisbarfoundation.org.
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August 25, 2011 |
Practice News
The amended rule forbids non-interest bearing pooled accounts, imposes new recordkeeping requirements, and obliges banks to report IOLTA-account overdrafts. Read Helen Gunnarsson's summary of the changes in the September Illinois Bar Journal.
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August 25, 2011
The 2nd phase of the renovation of the ISBA's Chicago Renovation is underway. Demolition of old walls, celings and flooring is complete and new walls and wiring are under construction. This project is on schedule and will provide an improved member experience for CLE classes and a studio for enhanced online learning. -
August 24, 2011 |
Practice News
Asked and AnsweredBy John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMCQ. I am the chair of our three person management committee. Our firm, now entering second generation, is a 17 attorney firm in Kansas City, Missouri. We represent businesses and other institutional clients. We have several of our founding partners in their 70s and as they phase back and slow down we are discovering that the younger generation of partners have not developed client development skills. What should we be doing to get more business? We are not sure we even know how?A. Research conducted over the years by numerous research organizations has shown that on average it costs five times as much (dollars/time investment) to get new clients than it does to get more business from existing clients. It just makes good business sense to leverage existing relationships.Institutional clients are reducing the number of law firms that they use. According to BTI Consulting Group, corporations in the Fortune 1000 list are using 20% fewer core law firms than they did a year earlier. As a result fewer firms will be getting work from these companies and they will likely be the firms that successfully cross-sell their practices.Recommendation From a Fortune 500 ClientRecently I was doing a telephone interview with the general counsel of a Fortune 500 company for our law firm client and I asked him if there was an opportunity for the law firm to get additional work in a practice area in which the company had no experience with the law firm previously and if an opportunity existed what the firm needed to do to earn the business. Here is his response
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August 23, 2011 |
ISBA News
“Juvenile Incarceration: Alternatives/Placements/Visitation/Release,” a half-hour program produced by Illinois Law, will air on Chicago Access Network Television, Channel 21 in Chicago, on Tuesday, August 30 at 10 p.m. Illinois Law is a cable production of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).Appearing on the show are (from left) Raymond G. Stubner, deputy chief of Juvenile Probation Services for the Department of Probation & Court Services in DuPage County; program moderator Hon. Cheryl Cesario, a judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County; and Hon. Thomas J. Riggs, a judge in the 18th Judicial Circuit in DuPage County.
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August 19, 2011 |
Events
The Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago will be honoring former Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald and Kraft Foods at its 2011 Bill of Rights in Action Award Benefit on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The CRFC Board of Directors gives the Bill of Rights in Action Award to individuals and organizations who privde models of citizenship to our nation's young people.More information is available at www.crfc.org/programs/bria.php
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August 19, 2011 |
Events
A luncheon and VIP reception will be held with Lilly Ledbetter on Wednesday, Sept. 14 at the Renaissance Blackstone Hotel, 636 S. Michigan. Ledbetter is the namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 -- the first bill signed into law by President Barack Obama.Ms. Ledbetter joins a growing list of visionary, ground-breaking women recognized by The Network as “Women of Influence” - namely, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, Illinois Dept. of Family and Healthcare Services Director Julie Hamos, and Illinois Lt. Governor Sheila Simon.Find out more and register at www.batteredwomensnetwork.org/ledbetter.php
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August 18, 2011
ISBA Director of Legislative Affairs Jim Covington reviews legislation on DNA from registered sex offenders and some arrestees (PA 97-383), juvenile justice (PA 97-362), Open Meetings Act-audits (PA 97-318), FOIA and park districts (97-385), FOIA and "personally identifiable information" (PA-97-342) and Mortgage Foreclosure Article (97-329).
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August 18, 2011 |
ISBA News
SBA President John G. Locallo is excited to personally invite you, a guest, your family and friends to join him in South America for the Annual ISBA President’s trip May 5-12, 2012. Guests will spend a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.The trip will be extra special as President Locallo has intentionally left plenty of time for you to explore the two cities on your own or with his sister and brother-in-law -- who lived there. He has also arranged a local expert to be on hand in both cities to help you thoroughly enjoy your time. The hotels are centrally located to maximize walking and President Locallo has a special event planned in each city to show off the local culture and cuisine. There will also be a full-time escort from Carrousel Meetings & Incentives to help with anything you need while in South America.For more information and to register please visit the ISBA Argentina/Brazil President’s Trip website at www.regonline.com/ilstatebarassociation.