The ISBA President-Elect will appoint a member to one of the under-represented seats of the Board of Governors at the May 17 meeting of the Board of Governors. The member appointed to this position will serve with full Board member privileges for a three-year term beginning the first day of the 2024 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.
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April 2, 2024 |
Member Services | ISBA News
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 March, 2024, ISBA helped 1,088 people in need of legal services find lawyers.
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Voting is now underway in the 2024 ISBA Election.
ISBA's election vendor, Election-America, emailed e-ballots to members with valid email addresses today, Wednesday, March 27. Members—without a valid email address or who prefer to vote by mail—may request a paper ballot by contacting Election-America at Help+isba@election-america.com or (866) 384-9978 Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT. The deadline to request a paper ballot is April 15, 2024.
All members of the Association (except non-lawyer members) with dues paid by March 1, 2024, are eligible to vote. The deadline for voting is Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. CT
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The 41st Annual Illinois State Bar Association High School Mock Trial Invitational took place on March 16-17, 2024, at the Public Affairs Center at the University of Illinois in Springfield. Fifty high schools throughout Illinois participated.
First place went to College Preparatory School of America from Lombard.
Second place went to Stevenson High School from Lincolnshire, and Maine South High School from Park Ridge received third place.
The Civility Award recipient was Niles West High School from Skokie.
The Donna E. Schechter Memorial Law Test Award recipient was York Community High School from Elmhurst.
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The 2024 first place winner of the Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest is Morgan Handwerker, an associate at Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, Chicago, who wrote “Practicing in a New World.” Morgan's article appeared in the February issue of the Illinois Bar Journal.
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March 3, 2024 |
Member Services | ISBA News
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 February, 2024, ISBA helped 1,236 people in need of legal services find lawyers.
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The deadline to nominate someone for an Illinois State Bar Association award is March 4, 2024.
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At the March 2024 meeting of the ISBA Board of Governors, the Board shall elect two Under 35 delegates to the ABA House of Delegates, one from Cook County and one from outside Cook County. The candidates for these positions must be members of the ISBA and ABA in good standing, from the appropriate geographical area, and under the age of 35 at the close of the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting, which is Tuesday, August 6.