January 2015 • Volume 29, Number 1
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6 President’s Page
National Mentoring Month
10 CBANews
18 Chicago Bar Foundation
Report
20 Murphy’s Law
40 Legal Ethics
By John Levin
42 Ethics Extra
By Nicole M. Petrarca
44 LPMT Bits & Bytes
By Catherine Sanders Reach
46 A Person of Interest
Getting to Know…
Jack Rives
By Geoff Burkhart
48 Summary Judgments
Bonnie McGrath reviews
Lowell B. Komie’s
Balcon
andWalter Roth’s
Toni and
Markus, FromVillage Life to
Urban Streets
CBA
RECORD
CONTENTS
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
26 Loss of Society in Death Cases–The Paradox of the Rebuttable
Presumption
By Michael P. Cogan
YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION
30 Happy New Year
By Paul J. Ochmanek, Jr., YLS Chair
32 The Double-Edge Sword of Victim Survival–Imperfect
Self Defense
By Chrisopher Kopacz and Elena Penick
36 When the Government Mines “Big Data,” Does It Conduct a
Fourth Amendment Search?
By Mike Gentithes
On the Cover
This month’s cover contains a
photograph from
CBA Record
Editorial
Board Member Ruth Kaufman. Find out
more at
www.ruthkaufman.com.JANUARY2015
CBA
JANUARY IS
NATIONAL MENTORING
MONTH
Isolation,Quarantine
andYourClient
TheRebuttable
Presumption
DataMiningand
theFourthAmendment