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The YLS Professional Responsbility
Committee meets on the first
Wednesdayof eachmonth. Formore
information, got
org/committees.
YLS PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY COMMITTEE HAPPENINGS
Keeping Current
By Emily Roschek, YLS Professional Responsibility Committeee Vice Chair
T he YLS Professional Responsibility
Committee makes it easier than ever
to keep up with ethical trends and
issues. We regularly communicate with
our members about upcoming committee
meetings, networking events, joint events,
and ethics seminars at the CBA and around
Chicago. We publish monthly articles in
the CBA Record covering our committee
meetings. We also have a LinkedIn page
where we frequently post ethics-related
articles and information on upcoming
meetings and events.
The YLS PR Committee makes PR
topics accessible, relevant, and enjoyable.
Illinois Professional Responsibility credit
isn’t just ethics anymore. It includes pro-
fessionalism, diversity, mental health and
wellness, and civility. To that end, the YLS
PR Committee meetings have extended
beyond traditional ethics issues and have
included such topics as “How the Practice
of Law Is Like Major League Baseball” and
“How to Get Your Case On the Front Page
(or Off of It).”
We also like to produce joint events.
Our committee meeting on February 4
was held jointly with the YLS’s newest
committee, Federal Taxation, on “Tax
and Ethics.” We’re also jointly sponsoring
a seminar with the YLS Health & Well-
ness Committee to bring in Andy Clark
on “Survey Says... How to Get What You
Want Most...”
The YLS PR Committee makes an
effort to be reachable above and beyond
CLE programming. We not only volunteer
regularly with YLS charitable events and
participate in YLS and CBA social events,
we also schedule quarterly happy hours
aptly named “PR at the Bar.” These are
social nights of networking with attorneys
who either practice in ethics or have an
interest in this area. The last few have been
done jointly with the YLS Fed Tax com-
mittee. Why not join us for one of these
events soon?
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