2008 Annual
Luncheon - Reserve your tickets today!
Chicago
Appleseed and the Council are pleased to announce the details of the
upcoming 2008 Annual Luncheon. Please join us on Tuesday, October 7 at the
Palmer House Hilton. The reception begins at 11:30am, with the lunch and
program at noon.
The keynote speaker is Paula Wolff,
Ph.D., Senior Executive at Chicago Metropolis 2020. The
Commitment to Justice Honorees are
Richard A. Devine,
CookCountyState's Attorney, and
Edwin A. Burnette, Cook
County Public Defender.
The 2008 Annual Luncheon serves as the 39th Annual Meeting for the Chicago
Council of Lawyers, and the 11th Annual Meeting for Chicago Appleseed Fund
for Justice. Tickets for the event are on sale now. For information
about purchasing tickets or sponsoring a table, contact Amanda Grant at
312-988-6599, or
agrant@chicagoappleseed.org. Download the pledge form
here.
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Tickets Now on Sale—Reserve Your Seat at the
2007 Annual Luncheon by Tuesday, September 25th!
On October 2, 2007, Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers will host our Annual Luncheon. The program will mark the 38th Annual Meeting of the Council and the 10th Annual Meeting of Chicago Appleseed. The 2007 Annual Luncheon will be held at the Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois. The reception will begin at 11:30, with lunch and the program starting promptly at noon.
Our keynote speaker is Thomas Sullivan, senior partner at Jenner & Block LLP. We will be presenting the Commitment to Justice Award to Ada Skyles, Associate Director, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago; Thomas Geraghty, Professor, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University; and Diane Geraghty, Director, Civitas ChildLaw Center, Loyola University.
Download the pledge form and reserve your
seat today! For more information, or to purchase your ticket by credit card, contact Amanda Grant at 312-988-6599 or agrant@chicagoappleseed.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
Cook County State’s Attorney Candidates Forum
Sponsored by Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, Chicago Council of
Lawyers and Chicago-Kent College of Law on January 24, 2008
View the clip from CLTV below
October
17, 2006 2006
Annual Luncheon
The 2006
Annual Luncheon was held on Tuesday, October 17th. Our keynote
speaker was Lynn Sweet, D.C. Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times.
We presented the Commitment to Justice Award to the Honorable Paul Biebel,
Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division, for his exemplary accomplishments
in improving the Cook County criminal justice system. The program marked
the 37th Annual Meeting of the Council and the 9th Annual Meeting of
Chicago Appleseed.
The following
firms and companies were among those who sponsored tables for our 2006
Annual Luncheon:
Sponsoring
Benefactor:
Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd.
Sponsoring Contributors:
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Grippo & Elden LLC
Holland + Knight LLP
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Miner Barnhill & Galland PC
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Sponsoring Friends:
Robert T. Badesch, Badesch Abramovitch
The Boeing Company
Chicago Appleseed Board of Directors
Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Law Offices of Susan E. Cox,
Ltd.
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP
Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
The Law Offices of Susan Fortino-Brown
Jenner & Block LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Michael Kreloff
Law Offices of Susan Fortino-Brown
Meites Mulder Mollica & Glink
Metroplex, Inc.
Miller Shakman & Beem LLP
Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Novack & Macey LLP
Sachnoff & Weaver,
Ltd.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Torshen Slobig Genden Dragutinovich & Axel, Ltd.
September
15, 2006 -- 12:00pm The Future
of Judicial Selection in Illinois
The
Future of Judicial Selection in Illinois
September 15, 2006
12:00 to 1:30pm
Chicago-Kent College of Law
565 W. Adams Street
Sponsored
by The Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Chicago Lawyer Chapter of
the American Constitution Society
Moderator:
Robert Bennett - Professor and former Dean, Northwestern University
School of Law
Confirmed
panelists: Rachel Caufield - American Judicature Society/Drake University
Deborah
Goldberg
- Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, NY School
of Law
Shira
Goodman - Associate Director, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts
Hon.
Benjamin Miller - Former Chief Justice Illinois Supreme Court
Lonny
Ogus - Chicago attorney, Co-Chair Alliance of Bar Associations for
Judicial Screening
Zeophus
J. Williams - Chicago attorney, Co-Chair Alliance of Bar Associations
for Judicial Screening
Larry
Suffredin - Attorney, Shefsky & Froelich, Cook County Board Commissioner
July
28, 2006 -- 12:30pm Children
and Family Law Committee Meeting
Founded
and chaired by Joan S. Colen, the committee is focusing on two issues:
The first involves advocacy for improving Illinois' IV-D (child support
enforcement) program. A second project looks at the procedures used
by the Domestic Relations Division in approving, training, and overseeing
lawyers as child representatives in custody cases.
The issue
most pressing to the committee, however, is a response to proposed legislative
changes to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act's custody
provisions. Proposed legislation was introduced in the Illinois legislature
last year, and numerous parties are negotiating over various provisions.
Members of the Council's Children and Family Law Committee feel that
it is important that the legislature hear the voice of advocates for
lower- income people.
March
7, 2006 -- 5:30pm Soul of
Jusitice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey
The Council
is one of the co-sponsors of an upcoming American Constitution Society
For Law and Policy (ACS) event, a screening of:
Soul
of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey
Introduced by filmmaker Abby Ginzberg
Featured remarks by The Honorable Ann C. Williams
Tuesday,
March 7, 2006 5:30 - 7:30 pm Chicago Bar Association, Phillip H. Corboy Room
321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL
February
23, 2006 Chicago
Appleseed Information Series:
Voter Education in Judicial Elections
In 2004,
Chicago Appleseed initiated the www.voteforjudges.org
campaign in an attempt to improve non-partisan voter education in judicial
elections. The Chicago Council of Lawyers has worked with the political
action committee, The Committee to Elect Qualified Judges for decades
in an effort to distribute sample judicial ballots to voters. As part
of the Chicago Appleseed Information Series, Chicago Appleseed Board
member Chuck Smith, Partner at Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom, is hosting
a session on voter education in judicial elections on Thursday, February
23 at 4:30 p.m. Friends and members of the Chicago Council of Lawyers
and Chicago Appleseed are cordially invited to attend and to offer your
ideas.
September
30, 2005 Council
and Cook County Bar Association Forum on Racial Profiling
Speakers:
Alexander Weiss, the Director of Northwestern University's Center
for Public Safety, which analyzed data on traffic stops by governmental
police forces throughout Illinois
Randolph
Stone, Clinical Professor and Director, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic,
University of Chicago Law School and former Cook County Public Defender
September
28, 2005 Annual
Fundraising Luncheon
On September
28, 2005, Chicago Appleseed once again be joined with the Chicago Council
of Lawyers to host our Annual Fundraising Luncheon. The program marked
the 36th Annual Meeting of the Council and the eighth Annual Meeting
of Chicago Appleseed.
We will
be unveiled our new Criminal Justice Project with keynote speakers Randolph
Stone and Steve Bogira. Each presented their unique perspective on the
criminal justice system.
Randolph
Stone is the former Public Defender for Cook County and is a clinical
professor and Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University
of Chicago. Steve Bogira is the award-winning reporter for the Chicago
Reader and the author of Courtroom 302, which examines one year in one
courtroom of America’s busiest felony courthouse.
A Commitment
to Justice Award was presented to Patricia Logue, senior counsel at
Lamda Legal, for her commitment to the protection of civil rights and
dedication to family law.