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MURPHY’S LAW
BY TERRENCE M. MURPHY, CBA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
T he 2017 Vanguard Awards luncheon
will be held on Thursday, April 6 in
the Grand Ballroom at the Standard
Club. Fifteen Chicago-area bar associa-
tion presidents will present the Vanguard
Award to their honoree at the luncheon.
This year’s honorees include: Michael
C. Aguhar, Filipino American Lawyers
Association; Illinois Supreme Court Justice
Anne M. Burke, The Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation; Chicago Legal Clinic, Advocates
Society of Lawyers; Susana Darwin,
Lesbian & Gay Bar Association; Justice
Robert E. Gordon, Decalogue Society of
Lawyers; DavidHerrera, Puerto Rican Bar
Association; Sana’a Hussien, Arab-Amer-
ican Bar Association; Andrea S. Kramer,
Women’s Bar Association; Sang-yul Lee,
Asian American Bar Association; James
D. Montgomery Sr., Cook County Bar
Association; National Immigrant Justice
Center, Hispanic Lawyers Association of
Illinois; Tony Shu, Chinese American Bar
Association; Sufyan Sohel, South Asian
Bar Association of Chicago; and Adrian
Vuckovich, Serbian Bar Association. A
reception for the honorees begins at 11:30
a.m. followed by lunch. Brief video accep-
tance remarks (2 minutes) from each of the
honorees will be shown at the luncheon
which is expected to adjourn around 1:30
p.m. Tickets for the luncheon are $70
per person or $700 for a table of ten. For
more information or to make reservations
contact Tamra Drees 312/554-2057 or
Herman Kogan Media Awards
The 28th Annual Herman Kogan Media
Awards luncheon will be held on Tuesday,
May 9 in the Main Dining Room at the
Standard Club. This year’s luncheon will
feature two outstanding speakers, David
Kaplan, Sports Talk Live, and Scott
Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. In
addition, the Chicago Cubs World Series
(L-R) CBA President Daniel Kotin, 2017 Dickerson Award recipients Josie Gough, Robert F. Harris, Graham C. Grady; along
with PastCBAPresidentJudgeE.KennethWright,Jr. participatedintheCBA’sDickersonAwardLuncheonattheStandard
Club on February 22. The Chicago Bar Association established the Dickerson Award to honor Earl Burrus Dickerson, an
outstanding lawyer who was among the first African-American members of the Chicago Bar Association. The Dickerson
Award recognizes and honors minority lawyers and judges whose careers at the bar emulate the courage of Dickerson
in making the law the key to justice for all in our society. Photo by Bill Richert.
Trophy will be on hand for members/
guests viewing and photos. The Kogan
Awards are named after legendary Chicago
journalist Herman Kogan, whose career
spanned 50 years. Kogan was the author of
The Chicago Bar Association’s First Century
1874-1974, and authored or co-authored
ten other books, including Lords of the
Levee; Give the Lady What She Wants; Big
Bill of Chicago; and The Great Fire: Chicago
1871. The Kogan Awards will be presented
to journalists in the following categories:
print, broadcast and online. Tickets for
the luncheon are $70 per person and $700
for a table of ten. For more information
or to make reservations, contact Karen
Highley at 312/554-2013 or khighley@
.
16th Annual Barristers Big Band
Benefit Ball
This year’s Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball
(BBBBB) will be held on Friday, April 28 in
the Grand Ballroom at the Standard Club.
The reception and buffet dinner begins at
6:00 p.m. followed by music and dancing.
The CBA is the only bar association in the
U.S. that has a Symphony Orchestra, Big
Band and 100-member Chorus. Join your
colleagues from the bench and the bar at
this special evening which will also include
a silent auction.
Tickets for the Ball are still only $50
per person and come with a guarantee for
a “fun” evening. Information about the
silent auction items will be available online
at For
more information or to purchase tickets
contact Tamra Drees at tdrees@chicagobar.
org or 312/554-2057
Congratulations
Thomas A. Demetrio was honored as
one of the nation’s 50 most influential
trial lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers
Association...the Celtic Legal Society
of Chicago honored Judge Thomas V.
Lyons (Celt of the Year Award) and Judge
William J. Bauer, U.S. Court of Appeals,
Seventh Circuit (James J. Shields Medal
of Excellence) at the group’s annual St.
Patrick’s Day Luncheon…Metropolitan
Family Services is celebrating its 160
Anniversary–last year this outstanding
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