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A Judiciary and Bar in Peril
JudgeMartha A. Mill’s article The Nation of Turkey: a Judi-
ciary and Bar in Grave Peril (November CBA Record,
p. 28) presents a clear-eyed rendition of the fragility of
institutions we take for granted. As if to flesh out Judge
Mills’article, a December 10th Wall Street Journal article
entitled “Turkey’s Autocratic Turn” pointed out that Tur-
key’s president, Erdogan, wants the constitution changed
so he can stay in power until 2029.The article ends on the
gloomy quote by Osman Can, former constitutional court
justice:“the institutions have failed,”he said.
Gerry DeNotto
Mount Prospect, Illinois
12 JANUARY 2017
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Thank you to the following law firms, organizations, faculty and
the Leadership Development Planning Committee for their past
and continuing contributions to the success of the CBA’s Leader-
ship Institute!
–Ray J. Koenig III, Leadership Institute Chair, ClarkHill PLC
CBA’S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ENTERS SECOND YEAR
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Center for Disability and Elder Law
ChicagoLawyers’Committeefor Civil
Rights Under Law, Inc.
Clark Hill PLC
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Eimer Stahl LLP
Fraczek Radelet P.C.
Holland & Knight LLP
Locke Lord LLP
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
Mid-America Regional Bargaining
Association
Much Shelist P.C.
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Peter Latz & Associates, LLC
Pilgrim Christakis LLP
Polsinelli
ReedSmith LLP
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sedgwick Law LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
SmithAmundsen LLC
Thompson Colburn LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Sponsors:
Kimball Anderson, Winston &
Strawn
Cliff Berman, Senior Vice President
and General Counsel, Option Care
Richard Chapman, Clark Hill
Steve Elrod, Holland & Knight
Scott J. Fisher, Neal, Gerber &
Eisenberg LLP
Angel Gomez, AG Gomez
Consulting, LLC
Hon. Sophia Hall, Circuit Court of
Cook County
Sharon E. Jones, Jones Diversity
Beth Keno, Keno Consulting, LLC
Deb Knupp, Akina
Hon. Lisa M. Madigan, Attorney
General, State of Illinois
Christina Martini, DLA Piper
John Mitchell, KM Advisors
Sheila Nielsen, Esq., Nielsen Career
Consulting
Sally Olsen, Sidley & Austin
Stephen Patton, Corporation
Counsel, City of Chicago
Jane DiRenzo Pigott, R3 Group LLC
Diana Quinn, The Quinn Company
Meredith Ritchie, Vice President,
General Counsel and Chief Ethics
and Compliance Officer Alliant
Credit Union
Audrey Rubin, Chief Operating
Officer, Global Law Departments,
Aon Corporation
Jesse H. Ruiz, Drinker Biddle
Richard Shavzin, Chicago Litigation
Consultants
Deborah Telman, Vice President
and General Counsel, Corporate
Legal Services at Johnson Controls
William A. Von Hoene, Jr., Senior
Executive Vice President and Chief
Strategy Officer, Exelon Corporation
Faculty:
Chair:Ray J. Koenig, III, Clark Hill PLC
Karina Ayala-Bermejo, The Legal
Aid Society of Metropolitan Family
Services
Aurora Austriaco, Austriaco &
Bueschel P.C.
Daniel Cotter, Butler Rubin
Saltarelli & Boyd LLP
Steven Elrod, Holland &
Knight, LLP
E. Lynn Grayson, Jenner & Block
Matthew Jenkins, Corboy &
Demetrio
Jonathan Jennings, Pattishall
McAuliffe
Daniel A. Kotin, Tomasik Kotin
Kasserman, LLC
John Mitchell, KM Advisors
Meredith E. Ritchie, Alliant
Credit Union
David Scriven-Young, Peckar &
Abramson
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