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January 2016 • Volume 30, Number 1
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6 President’s Page
The CBA’s New Leadership
Institute
10 CBANews
18 Chicago Bar Foundation
Report
22 Murphy’s Law
34 Legal Ethics
By John Levin
35 Ethics Extra
By Jeanette Conrad Ellis
36 LPMT Bits & Bytes
By Catherine Sanders Reach
38 Summary Judgment
Daniel A. Cotter reviews
Lawyer, Activist, Judge:
Fighting for Civil and Voting
Rights inMississippi and
Illinois
by Martha A. Mills.
John Levin reviews
Kafka’s
Law
by Robert P. Burns
CBA
RECORD
CONTENTS
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
26 A Practical Guide to Law Division Commercial Calendar Cases
By Richard Lee Stavins
YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION
30 Leadership Development
By Matthew A. Passen, YLS Chair
32 Amended Supreme Court Rule 341: Why One Seemingly Small
Change will Transform the Way we Write
By Jonathan B. Amarilio
On the Cover
Cover Art Courtesy of ThinkStock.
JANUARY2016
CBA
Are You Ready?
AMENDED SUPREME
COURT RULE 341
LawDivision
Commercial
CalendarCases
InformationSecurityand
theRulesofProfessional
Conduct
INeedLegal
Aid,Too