Illinois Bar Journal

The Illinois Bar Journal, our award-winning monthly magazine, is free online to ISBA members.

Current Issue

November 2019 Issue

ISBA health insurance, Illinois Judicial Conference’s strategic plan, client confidentiality, and more.

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Read IBJ on Your iPad

You have two great options.

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).

Talk Back

Send us a short (500-words or fewer) letter to the editor. ISBA members can also add their comments to specific articles in the online version of the Journal and view the comments of other members.

Write for the Journal

Annual Lincoln Award Writing Contest

The 2020 Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest is sponsored by and for members of the ISBA's Young Lawyers Division. If you're an ISBA lawyer member and are under the age of 36 as of July 1, 2019 or had been admitted to the bar fewer than five years as of that date, then 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 Journal articles are available free of charge for ISBA members. Copies of Journal articles are available for $7.50 each for non-lawyers and out-of-state lawyers. To order Journal articles, contact Member Services at orders@isba.org or by calling 800-252-8908. Sorry, since the Journal is a members-only benefit, we do not sell articles to nonmember Illinois lawyers.