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The legal spending report: Which lawyers got paid by the state in 2020

The legal spending report: Which lawyers got paid by the state in 2020

The state of Illinois spent just over $24.1 million in legal fees during Fiscal Year 2020, according to records from the comptroller’s office.
By Marc Karlinsky
Legal community leans into philanthropy

Legal community leans into philanthropy

From packing school supplies and clothes for kids in need to backing Olympic athletes and high school students, Chicago-area lawyers find ways to give back in meaningful ways.
By Amanda Marrazzo
McMeen’s moment: The story behind the CBA’s newest director

McMeen’s moment: The story behind the CBA’s newest director

Elizabeth A. McMeen has more than 30 years of institutional knowledge at The Chicago Bar Association. It’s knowledge she expects will be her compass as she continues in her first year as executive director.
By John McNally
Ways forward from a watershed moment

Ways forward from a watershed moment

Officials at Chicago law firms last summer watched — alongside their colleagues, peers and fellow citizens — as demonstrators called for an end to systemic racism in the United States.
By Rebecca Anzel

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Women’s Bar Association of Illinois

As we make our way into 2021, we continue to face unprecedented challenges as a country and as a profession. These issues — a pandemic, global recession, the fight for racial justice — affect everyone in this country, but the impacts on women, and especially women of color, have proven particularly significant.
By Kathryn L. Conway

Cook County Bar Association

Shirley Chisholm once said that “service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living here on this earth.”
By Nyshana K. Sumner

Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago

Formed in 1986, the Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago is the first local bar association for attorneys of Asian descent in the Chicago area. Part of our mission is to advance the rule of law by educating the pan-Asian community on legal issues and referring volunteer attorneys and translators to pro bono clinics.
By Hsin-Hsin “Ivy” Lee
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Arab American Bar Association of Illinois

Last year provided no shortage of obstacles and challenges. However, the Arab American Bar Association of Illinois proved that it has and will continue to grow and show its strength in the face of adversity.
By Nura A. Yanaki
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Photo gallery with Top Stories

Robin DeGroot, a conservator for Third Coast Conservation in Elmhurst, explains the nuanced restoration work he did on cubby holes in the desk that Abraham Lincoln used to draft a presidential inaugural address in Springfield. He delivered the speech March 4, 1861, on the eve of the Civil War.
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Desk where Lincoln wrote of ‘better angels of our nature’ is restored
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves the federal courthouse in Chicago after his sentencing on federal banking charges in this 2016 file photo. Lawyers say Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Wednesday.
Sep
15
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Hastert settles hush money suit
John Wilson, second from left, holds his wife's hand as he leaves the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston after the first day of his trial in the college admissions scandal Monday.
Sep
14
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First ‘Varsity Blues’ trial kicks off
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks to an audience Sunday at the 30th anniversary of the University of Louisville McConnell Center in Louisville, Ky. Barrett said she is concerned that the Court will be seen as a hyper political institution and that justices must be “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too.”
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Barrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court
An April 28 file photo of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington. Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, after 20 years, not as much, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that builds on work conducted in 2011, one decade after the pivotal moment in U.S. history.
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20 years after 9/11, Americans poll less positive about state of civil liberties