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How will you celebrate Law Day?
Hopefully, all your gifts are wrapped, all your cards are sent, and all your decorations hung. But, whether you're ready or not, next Wednesday, May 1, is Law Day. If you haven't yet finalized your...
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Hispanic bench and bar groups offer Road to the Robe program on May 14
The Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, the Puerto Rican Bar Association, Region IX of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and the Illinois Latino Judges Association are co-sponsoring a...
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Justinian Society Installation and Awards Dinner May 22; registration and...
The Justinian Society of Lawyers will hold its annual Installation and Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 22 at RPM Events Chicago, 317 N. Clark Street. Weather permitting, the event will start with a...
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CBA to hold Running for Office CLE on May 7
I suppose that, in recent weeks, I have posted more about CLE opportunities here than is perhaps usual. Various groups have asked me to plug one event or another, and I try to accommodate when I can....
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Trial of Socrates to be broadcast May 10 on Lakeshore PBS outlet
Quick question before we get to the plug: In this age of streaming, does the word "broadcast" still have meaning? Partial answer -- and this does start to ease us into the actual topic of this post --...
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Thursday: IBF Lawyers Care Reception at Ditka's Oak Brook
The Illinois Bar Foundation will hold a Lawyers Care Reception tomorrow, Thursday, May 2, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Ditka's Oakbrook, 2 Mid America Plaza, #100, Oakbrook Terrace. The event will honor...
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The Advocates will be marching Saturday
The Advocates Society will have a unit in Saturday's Polish Constitution Day Parade. The parade starts at 11:30 a.m. and moves north, up Columbus Drive, from Balbo to Monroe. Persons wishing to march...
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Tickets now available for ILJA Spring Social
The Illinois Latino Judges Association will hold its Spring Social on Wednesday, May 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at Chief O'Neill's, 3471 N. Elston. Tickets are available for $75 each at this link....
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Weeping Angels amend Election Code... but why?
In a rational polity, legislatures would not act on anything important without investigation (extensive committee hearings, for example) and deliberation. Important legislation would take time... to...
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CBA's 150th Anniversary celebrations conclude with May 10 event at Union...
If it seems like the Chicago Bar Association has been going on about its 150th Anniversary for some time now, that's because it actuallly has. Special website, special logo (at left)... it's been...
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Ticket sales for PRBA's 30th Anniversary Gala close tomorrow, May 10
The Puerto Rican Bar Association's 30th Anniversary Gala will be held Saturday, May 18, from 6:00 p.m. to midnight, at the Fountain Blue, 2300 Mannheim Road, Des Plaines. All the information you may...
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Sponsors sought for 2nd Annual Salute to Veterans; tickets now available for...
The Decalogue Society and at least 40 bar groups and judges' associations are co-hosting the Second Annual Salute to Veterans in the Legal Profession on Monday, June 3, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at...
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Matthew Taylor judicial campaign launches Facebook campaign page
Matt Taylor is the Republican nominee for the Schliefer vacancy in the 12th Subcircuit; he was unopposed in the March Republican primary. Licensed to practice law in Illinois since 2004, according to...
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Tonight: John Hock fundraiser in Niles
Most Cook County judicial elections are essentially over. But not all. Voters in two subcircuits still have judicial choices to make in November. One of these subcircuits is the 18th, where Democratic...
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For all you planners out there: A 'Save the Date' from the ILJA
Summer calendars fill up fast. The Illinois Latino Judges Assocation will install its new board at a gala on Thursday, July 25 at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, 3015 W. Division...
View Article79 Cook County jurists file for retention
Two Appellate Court justices and 77 Cook County Circuit Court judges filed for retention this year, according to records released by the Illinois Secretary of State and obtained by FWIW. Appellate...
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CBA Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to perfrom Saturday, June 1
Sure... you thought that the big shindig at the train station meant an end to all those 150th anniversary celebrations from the Chicago Bar Association, didn't you? Well... as they used to say in the...
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Taking time off for good(?) behavior....
No, I'm not dead. But I haven't posted here since May 30. I have -- had -- any number of excuses: I had to get my CLE done. I had to prepare for, and successfully complete, an all-family vacation (the...
View ArticleApplication process underway for five Cook County judicial vacancies
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis has announced that applications will be accepted until 4:00 p.m. on September 16 for temporary appointments to five Cook County judicial vacancies,...
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Retention candidates urged to seek support from Advocates Society
Received this morning from the Advocates Society: The Advocates Society, the Association of Polish-American Attorneys, is compiling requests for support for retention in the 2024 judicial elections. If...
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