The ISBA offices will be closed for the holiday on Monday, July 5. They will reopen on Tuesday, July 6. During this time, members can expect the following:
All business and e-newsletter distribution will resume as usual on Tuesday, July 6.
The Illinois Supreme Court today issued two new orders which will resume statutory time restrictions for speedy trials on October 1 and relax social distancing requirements in courthouses. Both orders are effective immediately.
Congratulations to Becky Walters for winning a Visa gift card in the ISBA's 2021 Member Appreciation Month Instagram Contest!
As part of Member Appreciation Month, we asked members to post photographs of their home office setups on their Instagram accounts.
Becky's post included the caption, “The *new* Professor Walters."
This video explains how to listen to audio versions of ISBA CLE programs to earn MCLE credit.
The ISBA Assembly adopted the Association Code of Conduct during its regularly scheduled meeting on June 25.
“Ensuring the Association’s good reputation and public trust depends on its members’ personal integrity and adherence to the highest standards of conduct,” the Code of Conduct states. “To this end, the Association is committed to the fair and equitable treatment of all members, employees, and others with whom they maintain professional relationships. Therefore, in the conduct of all Association business, all members and employees are obligated to conduct themselves professionally and ethically and to treat each other with dignity and respect.”
2021-2022 ISBA President Anna Krolikowska’s journey to the legal world began at age 13 when her family came to the U.S. from Poland and she enrolled in Chicago Public Schools. “We were studying for a Constitution test. I got hooked on the idea of the rule of law, and how the Constitution works in the United States,” she says. “That interest stayed with me. I didn’t have anyone in my family who was a lawyer. We didn’t know any lawyers when I was in grammar school.” But that didn’t stop Krolikowska from becoming a lawyer and going on to achieve much more. Read about her remarkable path to the ISBA presidency, and her vision for her term, in July’s Illinois Bar Journal.
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism has announced that Kendra L. Abercrombie has joined the organization as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Manager.
In this role, Abercrombie will lead the Commission’s educational and advocacy initiatives aimed at promoting DEI in the legal and justice systems.
Your mind may not be the steel trap it needs to be. Learn about superior note taking applications, how to ensure your notes are searchable, and how to keep them organized for future reference with the ISBA's online program, "Steel Traps—Superior Note Taking and Organization Methods," which will be held from noon until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, July 27.
Congratulations to Theresa Beran Kulat for winning a Visa gift card in the ISBA's 2021 Member Appreciation Month Facebook Contest!
As part of Member Appreciation Month, we asked members to like and comment on our Facebook Contest graphic, telling us how they detox from the digital world. We then selected a winner at random.
Earlier this year, Terry Mueller, of the Law Office of Steven A Lihosit, represented the defense in Illinois’ first remote civil jury trial, Renata Raskin v. Alexander Mitchell in Lake County’s 19th Judicial Circuit Court. Mueller writes about the prep work, attention to detail, and lessons learned from the trial as he and the other attorneys in the case navigated new procedures created by the Illinois Supreme Court to strike a balance between the Seventh Amendment’s guaranteed right to a trial by jury and public health guidelines for preventing the spread of the contagious coronavirus in close quarters like court facilities. Mueller especially highlights the most impactful provisions of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 45 and shares how COVID-19 has changed the legal landscape of remote jury selection.