CBA Record April-May 2018

will be held on Thursday, June 21, in the Grand Ballroom at the Standard Club. The reception for outgoing President Judge Thomas R. Mulroy and incoming President Steven M. Elrod will begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by the business meeting and luncheon at noon. The Asso- ciation’s incoming officers and new board members will be installed at the meeting. Tickets for the Annual Meeting are $70 per person or $700 for a table of ten. For more information or to make reservations, con- tact Events Coordinator Tamra Drees at 312/554-2057 or tdrees@chicagobar.org. CBA/Montreal Bar Association CLE Program on NAFTA–June 14 & 15 The Association is co-sponsoring with the Montreal Bar Association a Continuing Legal Education Program to discuss a variety of legal topics and issues involving NAFTA. Discussion topics for the June 14 and June 15 joint program will include: Updating NAFTA, environmental issues and NAFTA, maintenance of ADR within the NAFTA framework, access to U.S./ Canada markets, and more. The joint CBA/Montreal Bar Association Program will be held at the Association and will be webcast. We are expecting a delegation of approximately 20 lawyers from the Mon- treal Bar Association to attend the pro- gram. The Montreal Bar Association will host the CBA’s leadership and members for a CLE program in Montreal in early September. Look for more information about both the Chicago and Montreal CLE programs in the e-bulletin and on the CBA’s website. Justice John Paul Stevens Award Each year, the Association honors lawyers and judges whose legal careers best exem- plify Justice Stevens’ integrity and commit- ment to public service. Nominations for the 2018 Justice John Paul Stevens Award are being accepted and should be submit- ted to: Terrence M. Murphy, CBA Execu- tive Director, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chi- cago, IL 60604 or tmurphy@chicagobar. org on or before Friday, August 3. Justice Stevens served as Second Vice President of the CBA until his nomina- tion to the U.S. Court of Appeals by

MURPHY’S LAW BY TERRENCE M. MURPHY, CBA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke received the 2018 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Philanthropic Award from Lawyers-Lend-A-Hand to Youth at the group's Spring Awards Dinner. Presenting the Award to Justice Burke are: Illinois Appellate Court Justice Terrence J. Lavin and Peter J. Birnbaum, President and CEO of Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. Photo by Bill Richert.

T he 2018 Nominating Committee, chaired by Judge Patricia Brown Holmes, has completed its work and the following members have been nominated for officer and board service: Maryam Ahmad , Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Second Vice President; E. Lynn Grayson , Nijman Franzetti, Secretary; Timothy S. Tomasik , Toma- sik Kotin Kasserman, Treasurer; Board of Managers (two-year terms): Sharon L. Eiseman , Illinois Attorney General’s Office; Nina Fain , Janey Sugerman Schirn Family Trust; Judge LaShonda A. Hunt , U.S. Bankruptcy Court; Judge Diane J. Larsen , Circuit Court of Cook County; Lori E. Lightfoot , Mayer Brown LLP; Kathryn Carso Liss , DePaul University College of Law Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center; Frederico M . Rodri- guez , Rodriguez Legal Group; and Adam J. Sheppard , Sheppard Law Firm. Hold-

over board members include: Mark B. Epstein , Epstein&Epstein; Dean Michael J. Kaufman , Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Matthew A. Passen , Passen Law Group; Mary Robinson , Robinson LawGroup; John C. Sciaccotta , Aronberg Goldgehn; Helene M. Snyder ; Greta G. Weathersby , WEC Business Services, LLC; and Zeophus J. Williams , Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Incoming YLS Chair Brandon E. Peck , Peck Ritchey LLP, will be appointed to a one-year term on the Board. Pursuant to the Association’s Bylaws, Jesse H. Ruiz , Drinker Biddle & Reath, becomes First Vice President and Steven M. Elrod , Holland & Knight, having served as First Vice President, will succeed to the office of President at the Annual Meeting. CBA 145 th Annual Meeting T he Association’s 145 th Annual Meeting

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