On January 1, 2024, Illinois’ new Paid Leave for All Workers Act will take effect, ensuring that all full- and part-time employees are provided up to 40 hours of paid leave for every 12-month period of employment. Get the information you need to advise your clients on this important change to labor and employment law with this online seminar.
The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays. The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law. For the month of November, 2023, ISBA helped 1,336 people in need of legal services find lawyers.
One part of the ISBA Presidential Initiative on Access to Legal Services is opening access to courts through the consistent, continued use of remote appearances. To improve remote proceedings, the ISBA Delivery of Legal Services Committee is conducting a survey on remote proceedings.
Forbes is seeking nominations for its first-ever list of the Top 200 Lawyers!
It's Cyber Monday! For this week only, we're offering all ISBA members 20% off books in the ISBA bookstore!*
Are you interested in powering up your legal practice? If so, join us as we dive into the video game industry, and explore how it uses intellectual property and navigates as a whole. Additional topics include the various privacy issues to consider when sharing information during online game play and whether video game providers offer any privacy protections.
In the November Illinois Bar Journal’s Judging Your Writing column, Illinois Appellate Court Justice Michael B. Hyman issues a salvo in the long-simmering debate over the continued use of Latin in the legal profession. His column title translates as “Say Goodbye to Latin,” which gives you more than a clue to his perspective.
