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CBA RECORD
PRESIDENT’S
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BY PATRICIA BROWN HOLMES
Supercharge your Career and
Leadership Skills Through
Committee Service
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NOVEMBER 2015
O
ne of the most professionally ben-
eficial and personally rewarding
benefits of CBA membership is
the opportunity to supercharge your legal
career and leadership skills through com-
mittee service. More than 6,300 members
participate in the Association’s 92 general
bar committees and 27 Young Lawyer
Section committees. Many members
participate in more than one committee
bringing our total committee participation
up to more than 20,200.
CBA Practice Committees cover the
full range of substantive practice areas–
from Administrative Law and Appellate
Practice–to Worker’s Compensation.
Service Committees include Legal Aid,
Law Practice Management &Technology,
Solo/Small Firm and many more. Special
Committees include Administrative Hear-
ings Review, Entertainment, Interfaith, the
Joint Task Force on Women and Aging,
Legislative, Judicial Evaluation, Public
Affairs, Symphony Orchestra and others.
Most committees meet monthly at the
CBA but a few–such as the Municipal Law
Committee–meet at the Circuit Court and
at some of our larger law firms. Virtually
all of the Association’s Practice Committees
and Service Committees feature monthly
speakers who discuss various aspects of
the law including: court procedures,
legal developments, new legislation, new
rules, practice tips, etc. Speakers share
their knowledge, talent and considerable
expertise often in very specialized areas of
the law with committee members.
Most committee meetings are also
webcast live and available online via the
Association’s website,
www.chicagobar.org,
throughout the city, suburbs and just about
wherever members have internet access.
A very convenient feature for members
attending a committee meeting online
is the ability to email questions to the
speaker(s) following their presentations
which are answered while they are watch-
ing the meeting. Committee meetings
are always instructive and the speaker(s)
presentations qualify for MCLE Credit.
It’s important to remember that par-
ticipation in CBA Committee’s is free–yes
that’s correct, committee participation
is absolutely free–once you are a CBA
member you pay no additional fees to
participate in one or more of the Asso-