CBA Record July-August 2015

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The Chicago
Bar Association
OFFICERS
President
Patricia Brown Holmes
Schiff Hardin LLP
First Vice President
Daniel M. Kotin
Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC
Second Vice President
Hon. Thomas R. Mulroy
Circuit Court of Cook County
Secretary
Jesse H. Ruiz
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Treasurer
Steven M. Elrod
Holland & Knight LLP
Executive Director
Terrence M. Murphy
Assistant Executive Director
Elizabeth A. McMeen
BOARD OF
MANAGERS
Karina Ayala-Bermejo
Ashly I. Boesche
Thomas F. Boleky
Chasity A. Boyce
Hon. Maureen E. Connors
Daniel A. Cotter
Mary K. Curry
James R. FortCamp
Matthew T. Jenkins
Natacha D. McClain
Eileen M. O’Connor
Matthew A. Passen
Meredith E. Ritchie
David J. Scriven-Young
Hon. Amy J. St. Eve
John T. Theis
Nigel F. Telman
Frank G. Tuzzolino
Allison L. Wood
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8 JULY/AUGUST 2015
department will be pleased to provide
you with the names of recently dropped
members to contact.
• I am asking every member to mentor
someone this year. Mentoring helps
others learn, grow and become more
effective in their career and life. Through
your wisdom and good will, you can
help share your knowledge with a less
experienced colleague. The CBA has
a variety of mentoring opportunities–
please take the time this year to coach,
inspire, and motivate someone who
needs guidance and assistance. They will
be better and you will be a better person
because of the mentoring gift you are
giving. For a list of CBA mentoring
programs, go to
mentoring.
• I am asking every member to con-
tribute in any amount to one of the
CBA’s many charitable arms such as
The Chicago Bar Foundation, which
provides essential financial support to
numerous legal service organizations
in Chicago and Cook County; support
The Chicago Bar Association’s Televi-
sion Committee, which provides needed
financial support for the work of the
Interfaith Committee in offering a vari-
ety of Restorative Justice Programs in
Chicago and suburban grammar schools
that help reduce teen youth violence
and to public education programming
about the law and our justice system;
support the “Lawyers Lend-A-Hand
to Youth” program, which helps fund
needed mentoring programs in Cook
County; and contribute to the “Institute
for Inclusion in the Legal Profession”
(IILP), which is being incubated by the
Association to help advance inclusive-
ness and diversity in the legal profession.
These are only a few of many options
members have to support worthy pro-
grams that help our community.
• I am asking every member to create a
“legacy” by giving your time and talent
in service to the Association and to the
legal profession. As lawyers we have a
duty and responsibility to serve and
advance the highest goals of the legal
profession. We can do this by volunteer-
ing to do one of the following: working
to improve the administration of our
courts, working to increase access to
justice programs for those who can’t
afford counsel, and by giving generously
of our time and talent to help make our
community a better place for all.
With your help we will succeed in keep-
ing the Chicago Bar Association a strong
and vital force within the legal profession
and in our community. Thank you and
please let me know your thoughts and sug-
gestions to improve our Association during
the coming bar year.