Illinois Bar Journal

The Magazine of Illinois Lawyers

January 2008 • Volume 96 • Number 1 • Pages 1-52

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Practice News

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LawPulse | By Helen W. Gunnarsson
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Illinois Law Update

Employer’s handbook revisions did not make employee at-will; Nursing Home Care Act amended; new CDB procedures for selecting design-build firms; and more.

See cases, legislation, and administrative agencies.

Articles

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Law Office Management | By
G. M. Filisko
Law Firm Marketing 101
You didn’t go to law school to be a salesperson, but you still have to sell yourself to prospective clients. Here’s how.
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Civil Practice | By
Timothy J. Storm
Vision Point : A Course Correction on Requests to Admit
This important new opinion makes it easier for judges to allow extensions for responding to requests to admit.
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Employment/ Human Rights | By
Stephen E. Balogh
,
Randall D. Schmidt
, and
Lindsey Marcus
The New Illinois Right-to-Sue Law for Employment Discrimination
The Illinois Human Rights Act now provides for a right to a jury in the Illinois circuit court in employment discrimination cases.
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Death Penalty | By
Thomas P. Sullivan
Proposed Reforms to the Illinois Capital Punishment System: A Status Report
A look at the fate of commission proposals for death-penalty reform. Bottom line: the system is better but there’s room for improvement. 
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Dui / Search and Seizure | By
Bruce L. Carmen
Police Interrogation of Motorists at Traffic Stops
The Fourth Amendment prohibits police from turning routine traffic stops into investigations of other criminal activity.

Columns

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Letters
Correspondence from Our Readers
Labeling security retainers; order-of-protection abuse.
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President’s Page | By
Joseph G. Bisceglia
ADR and the Image of Lawyers
“Lawyer-peacemaker” is the right image for our profession.
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Family Law | By
H. Joseph Gitlin
Premarital Agreements Need Premeditation
Before you draft a premarital agreement, consider what’s at stake.
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For New Lawyers
Asked and Answered
Pushing the statute of limitations.
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Real Estate Law | By
James K. Weston
Predatory Lending Laws: The Next, Not Last, Step
New laws expand the prohibitions on predatory lending.
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Finding Illinois Law | By
Tom Gaylord
Ready Reference for the Occasional Question
Here’s a grab bag of miscellaneous and – mostly – free research sites.