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The Illinois Bar Journal, our award-winning monthly magazine, is free online to ISBA members.
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1) If you have an Internet connection, the web version looks great, is a breeze to navigate, links to citations in Fastcase and other resources, and lets you browse articles back to November 1998 by subject, author, and title. You can even add the IBJ icon to your tablet's or phone's homescreen for this page and have handy access to the latest issue and other features.
2) If you're going to be offline, the PDF version preserves the look and layout of the magazine (use iBooks and you can even flip the pages).
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Annual Lincoln Award Writing Contest
The 2018 Lincoln Award Writing Contest is sponsored by and for members of the Young Lawyers Division. If you're an ISBA lawyer member and are under the age of 36 as of July 1, 2017 or admitted to the bar fewer than five years as of that date, you're eligible to complete for a share of the $3,500 in prize money. Past winning articles can be found in the February issues of the Illinois Bar Journal. Find out more...
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Copies of IBJ articles are available for $7.50 each by contacting Jean Fenski at jfenski@isba.org or calling 800-252-8908. Sorry, since the IBJ is a members-only benefit, we do not sell articles to nonmember Illinois lawyers.
