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State Judicial Evaluations For the Chicago Council of Lawyers evaluation report of candidates running in the February 2008 primary, including ratings, biographies of the judicial candidates, and an evaluation report discussing the reasons for the judicial evaluation results, click a link below. For a sample ballot from the Committee to Elect Qualified Judges, using the judicial evaluations from the Chicago Council of Lawyers, click a link below.
The Chicago Council of Lawyers has released its results of judicial evaluations done for judges seeking retention on the November 7th ballot.
In the summer of 1969, Alexander Polikoff, founder of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, addressed a group of 300 attorneys in the basement of the People's Gas Building about the shortcomings of the justice system. In his speech. Mr. Polikoff asked the lawyers:
That group of attorneys would go on to found the Chicago Council of Lawyers and place the improvement of the judiciary in the forefront of their activities. In its mission to monitor and improve the state courts, the Council continues to issue the toughest judicial evaluations in town. Thanks for voting!
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