All candidates for Illinois judicial office outside of Cook county who are running in the June 28 primary election have been rated by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Judicial Evaluations Committee, or in a poll of lawyers conducted by the ISBA. The results were made available May 9 on ISBA's Judicial Elections page.
The bar admission ceremony for the 292 new attorneys who passed the February 2022 Bar Exam will be held online on Thursday, May 12, at 11:00 a.m. Chief Justice Anne M. Burke will preside over the ceremony and administer the oath to the new admittees. Justice P. Scott Neville will make the motion to admit the class and Justice Robert L. Carter will second the motion.
Bridget C. Duignan has been elected Third Vice-President of the Illinois State Bar Association. Michael G. Bergmann, Mark L. Karno, Emily N. Masalski, Mary L. Milano, and Sarah E. Toney won the Cook County seats on the Board of Governors and Mark C. Palmer won the Area 5 seat on the Board of Governors.
The Illinois State Bar Association invites you to subscribe to "Life and Practice" – a brand new ISBA-sponsored podcast hosted by ISBA member Natali Thomas and her cohost Jessica Sisler – premiering this Friday, May 6, 2022.
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 April, 2022, ISBA helped 967 people in need of legal services find lawyers.
Enter the ISBA Caption Contest for a chance to be published in the Illinois Bar Journal and win a $100 Visa gift card.
To enter, just write a clever caption for the image above and fill out our short online entry form. The winning entry will appear in the Illinois Bar Journal, and the winning author will receive a $100 Visa gift card.
Best of luck to all ISBA Caption Contest entrants!
The First District Appellate Court has adopted amended rules of procedure which will become effective today.
This May, we're celebrating you during Member Appreciation Month. We have a full calendar of prizes, discounts and giveaways, so stay tuned to ISBA communications for detailed announcements with instructions for how you can get in on the fun. You can look forward to a bookstore sale, free live CLE webcasts, member renewal incentives, social media contests, and more. View our Member Appreciation Month page for additional details.
Among the 44 sections ISBA members can join for networking, continuing legal education, advocating for or against legislation, and keeping up with the latest developments in their practice areas, it can still happen: A few members don’t quite feel at home in any of them. That’s why new ISBA sections emerge from time to time. In the past few years, ISBA members have launched the Food Law Section and the Privacy and Information Security Law Section, each of which gives the ISBA a gathering place for those immersed in these up-and-coming sectors.
