Enter the ISBA’s 2024 Member Appreciation Month Facebook Contest
Enter the ISBA’s Member Appreciation Month Facebook contest for your chance to win a $100 Visa gift card.
Compelling the Unwilling
In Ira Helfgot’s May Illinois Bar Journal article, “Compelling the Unwilling,” Helfgot describes strategies for collecting from “unwilling debtors”—those who have the ability to pay a debt, but choose not to.
Rural Practice Fellowship Program Fellows Announced
The names of the 12 Fellows selected to participate in the 2024 Rural Practice Fellowship Program, which is designed to meet the critical need of providing access to justice for those living in rural areas with a declining lawyer population, have been announced.
So You Want to Practice Sports & Entertainment Law: The Rules of the Game
Join us during the ISBA Annual Meeting for a Combination Event: CLE and a Cardinals Baseball Game!
The sports and entertainment law landscape often confuses attorneys regarding what exactly it entails. This in-depth seminar is designed to guide legal professionals on the dynamic journey of becoming a sports and entertainment lawyer – from networking strategies and ethical considerations to relationship building and understanding the various ways you can help clients in the sports/music/film industry.
Where’s the Video?
Depending on the case, very little matches the power of video evidence. And, woe to anyone responsible for misplaced, destroyed, and inaccessible videos, for which discovery violations are possible. But what about video evidence that was never in the possession of law enforcement or the prosecution?
Illinois Supreme Court to Swear-In 300 New Attorneys at Bar Admission Ceremonies Across the State
The bar admission ceremonies for the new attorneys who passed the February 2024 Bar Exam will be held on Wednesday, May 8, in all five judicial districts of Illinois.
Supreme Court Justices to Administer Oath to New Attorneys in Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis, Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. and Justice Joy V. Cunningham will administer the attorney’s oath to 236 new lawyers over two bar admission ceremony sessions in Chicago on Wednesday, May 8, in the First Judicial District.
A Message From President Shawn Kasserman
I have had the great pleasure of congratulating the winners of the contested races in the 2024 ISBA Election. (A full list of election results is available on the ISBA website.) Today, I’d like to address those who finished in a slot other than the top one.