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EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Amy Cook
Amy Cook LLC
Features Editor
Justin Heather
The Quinlan Law Firm, LLC
Summary Judgments Editor
Pamela S. Menaker
Clifford Law Offices
YLS Journal Editors-in-Chief
Jonathan B. Amarilio
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Geoff Burkhart
American Bar Association
Carolyn D. Amadon
Shannon R. Burke
American Bar Association
Anne Ellis
Proactive Worldwide, Inc.
Clifford Gately
Heyl Royster
Angela Harkless
The Harkless Law Firm
Jasmine Villaflor Hernandez
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Michele M. Jochner
Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP
Ruth J. Kaufman
Stacey R. Laskin
Illinois Attorney General’s Office
John Levin
Bonnie McGrath
Law Office of Bonnie McGrath
Clare McMahon
Law Office of Clare McMahon
Peter V. Mierzwa
Law Bulletin Publishing Company
Kathleen Dillon Narko
Northwestern University School of Law
Adam J. Sheppard
Sheppard Law Firm, PC
Rosemary Simota Thompson
U.S. Department of Justice
William A. Zolla II
The ZOLLaw Group, Ltd.
THE CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION
David Beam
Director of Publications
Joe Tarin
Advertising Account Representative
CBA RECORD PRESIDENT’S PAGE
BY DANIEL A. COTTER
The Memories Will Last Forever
6 APRIL/MAY 2015
“We are the ones that keep this city moving,
We’ll be the ones that will send you off to
jail, We will dance and we will sing, For
the justice that our voice will bring.”
–6’10, “Da Boss”
“If I have seen further it is by stand-
ing on the shou l de r s o f g i ant s .”
–Sir Isaac Newton
“We keep moving forward, opening
new doors, and doing new things,
because we’re curious and curios-
ity keeps leading us down new paths.”
–Walt Disney
“And bad mistakes‒I’ve made a few.”
–Queen, “We Are The Champions”
This is my final column as your Presi-
dent. At the beginning of the bar
year, we talked about the year of the
young lawyer and a year of service to the
bar. We have tried to remain consistently
focused on those issues throughout the
year, and with various committees and the
YLS, we have done much. The problems of
the profession for young lawyers will con-
tinue, but the CBA and YLS are committed
to continuing to find relevant programs
and offerings to help tackle the issues we
as a profession face. Paul Ochmanek and
the incoming leadership of our YLS will
continue to address these issues and I com-
mend them for the work they do.
We truly are the ones that keep this city
moving and our leadership and influence is
felt throughout. From our TV Committee
taping its “You and the Law” program to
the WYCC interviews we film, from the
Traffic Court video JudgeTomMulroy shot
for the public this bar year to the Com-
mercial Calendar mandatory arbitration
program, from the JEC evaluations to the
work of the Legsislative Committee, we
are integral parts of the fabric of our com-
munity. To all of our members, I thank
you for committing time to not only the
betterment of our profession, but the bet-
terment of the community.
This year has been an extremely busy one
for me, but is one I will remember fondly for
the rest of my career and life. If one visits
the listing of Past CBA Presidents at http://
www.chicagobar.org or visits Presidents Hall
at the CBA Building, it is humbling to be
given stewardship of the best bar association
in the country for one year. The list of past
presidents is one of true giants fromChicago’s
legal history, and I am honored to soon join
this group. Each of the past presidents has
been a mentor and friend to me and I can
never expunge the “pay it forward” debt
I have incurred. I truly have stood on the
shoulders of giants. Thank you for your devo-
tion to the world’s greatest bar association.