Getting the Job Done

As the 150th president of the Illinois State Bar Association, Perry Browder, senior partner at Alton-based Simmons Hanly Conroy, envisions a robust agenda that will draw upon his impressive career as an attorney and bar leader. He’s previously served as president of the Illinois Bar Foundation (IBF) and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and he’s spent more than three decades representing victims in asbestos-related mesothelioma cases, once obtaining a $250 million verdict for a retired steelworker. As he looks to his year ahead, he sees himself as an ISBA bridge builder, ambassador, and chief cheerleader for the ISBA and its members. Those who know him best say he’s already been doing this his whole career.

Read, "Getting the Job Done," in the July Illinois Bar Journal.