In this Quick Takes for Your Practice video, attorney Alen Takhsh discusses the importance of being healthy while serving clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Illinois Supreme Court announced today that the Illinois bar exam, originally scheduled for July 28-29, 2020, has been rescheduled to September 9-10, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The Illinois Supreme Court also entered an order to relax rules for administering the bar exam to allow the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar the flexibility to prepare for and administer a bar examination in a manner that maintains the health and well-being of all applicants and others involved with the administration of the bar examination.

For Member Appreciation Month, we're giving three lucky members $500 VISA gift cards. All you need to do to enter is renew your ISBA membership by May 31, 2020.

You can renew online or by phone at (800) 252-8908. All major credit cards accepted. 

This May, we're celebrating you during Member Appreciation Month. To help you meet your MCLE requirements, we're offering a free live CLE webinar for the first 600 member registrants on May 7 from 1 until 2 p.m.

This May, we're celebrating you during Member Appreciation Month. Today through Sunday, May 10, members can save 25 percent on ISBA books and Fastbooks from our store. To take advantage of this promotion, visit the ISBA store and use the coupon code MMAM20 at checkout. 

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!

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. 

The polls for the ISBA election closed on April 30 at 4:30 p.m. Results will be made available on May 4.

Only attorney members who paid their dues by March 1, 2020 were eligible to vote.

For additional information, view past posts on The Bar News covering this year's election.

Get fast-breaking new information to advise client employers and employees with the ISBA's informative hot-topic online seminar held from 1-2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12. 

Civil litigators, business counselors, human rights attorneys, and labor/employment practitioners with basic to intermediate practice experience who attend this seminar will better understand: pandemic preparedness in the workplace and the American Disabilities Act; coronavirus and the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act; new FMLA rules, including who is covered and what is available; concerted actions by angry employees; discrimination claims with selective stay-at-home orders and layoffs; employee healthcare privacy for workplace notices and statements; unemployment compensation benefits from a COVID-19 layoff or furlough; False Claims Act cases on the horizon; FLSA/IMWL wage issues; employer obligations to reimburse employees for necessary expenditures; First Amendment free speech rights under 42 USC §1983; workplace torts not covered by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation comparison of the Illinois and federal administrative processes; federal and state court venue options; federal court removal and arbitration considerations; and remedies available under the state and federal acts

The Illinois Supreme Court has entered an order temporarily amending Supreme Court Rule 206 to ease the requirements for remote depositions.

The amended Rule is effective immediately.