CBA Record Feb-March 2018

was named a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP... John K. Theis is a new partner at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancilla LLP. O. Koplan Nwabuoku , Christopher A. Pellegrini and Aaron D.White, Jr . are new associates at Chuhak & Tecson PC... Lawrence A. Stein has opened a new firm onMichigan Avenue… Adam J. Diederich was elected an associate at Schiff Hardin LLP… Daniel P. Kramer was named a partner at Swanson Martin & Bell LLP... Bradley R. Ryba is a new associate at Goldberg Segalla... Craig D. Jeffrey was added as a partner at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancilla LLP... Matthew M. Patterson was promoted to partner at Beam Legal Team LLC... Maris J. Jager is of counsel at Rooney Rippie & Ratnaswamy LLP... Jennifer Dillon Kotz was promoted to senior partner at Schiller Ducanto & Fleck LLP... Elgie R. Sims Jr ., counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP, was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Pretrial Practices... Janet E. Boyle is a founding partner of Boyle Feinberg Sharma... Jason Patrick Stiehl was named as a partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP... Rita Ghose , Brigitte Schmidt Bell PC, was named President of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois... Laura B. Lefkow is a staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago... Peter J. Strand has been named chair-elect of the ABA’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries... Katherine A. O’Dell , a partner at Amari & Locallo, was selected as one of two vice presidents of the Harwood Heights-Norridge Chamber of Commerce... Patrick A. Salvi , Jeffrey J. Kroll , Tara R. Devine and Patrick A Salvi II were nominated by the National Trial Lawyers as Trial Team of the Year... Courtney E. Lindbert is a new associate at Cunningham Meyer & Verdine, P.C… Cinthia Granados Motley is a new member of Dykema Gossett PLLC… Adam P. Beckerink is a new partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Daniel L. Siegfried is a new partner at Heplerbroom LLC...Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has opened a Dallas office. Ricardo Lugo has joined the law office of Jeffrey M. Leving... AmyM. Rubenstein is a new partner at DLA Piper... Alexander L. Berg , Andrew P. Shelby and Richard

Law At The Library

The CBA is proud to partner with the Chicago and Evanston public library systems to offer a free monthly legal information series offering practical insight for the general public into a wide variety of everyday legal topics. CBA members will offer their legal expertise in free seminars that will be held each month at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library and the Evanston Public Library. The sessions are free and registration is not required. For a complete schedule of dates and topics for 2017-2018 go to www.chicagobar.org.

and CBA board member, Shelvin Louise Marie Hall, will receive the Cook County Bar Association’s 2018 Vanguard Award... Maryam Ahmad will receive The Chicago Bar Association’s 2018 Vanguard Award. Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson partners Brett A. August, Phillip Barengolts, Ashly Boesche, Thad Chaloemtiarana, Bradley L. Cohn, David C. Hilliard, Jonathan S. Jennings , Janet A. Marvel , Robert W . Sacoff , Belinda J. Scrimenti and Joseph N. Welch II have been named 2018 Illinois Super Lawyers... T. Markus Funk , a partner at Perkins Coie, has been selected by the Burton Awards as a recipient of the 2018 Law 360 Distinguished LegalWriting Award... Ashley S. Starks is a new associate at Grant Law LLC... Ashlee M. Knuckey was named a partner at Locke Lord LLP... Joseph J. Bogdan is a partner at Culhane Meadows PLLC... Stephanie Crigler was added to Dinsmore & Stohl LLP… Jeremy T.Waitzman is a partner at Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP… Travis W. Life , a partner at Leavens Strand & Glover LLC, was a speaker at Chicago’s International Movies and Music Festival... Jason M. Bradford , Brienne M . Letourneau and Sarah F. Weiss were elected partners at Jenner & Block LLP… Amanda M. Morris is an associate at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP... Ryan E. Larson is a new partner at Kopon Airdo LLC ...Erin Lynch Cordier was elected a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP... Joanne S. Wallace was named a partner at Jones Day... Colin H. Dunn has opened his own firm focusing on commercial litigation at the trial and appellate level… Steven R. Cade

President and CEO of the Chicago Public Library’s Foundation...Retired Judge Russell W. Hartigan , President of the ISBA, received the Decalogue Society of Lawyers’ Light of Truth Award... Trisha M. Rich has been named a partner at Holland & Knight. Kristen Kozlowski Lyons Is the new President of the Advocates Society... Thomas R. Mulroy III has joined Salvi Schostok & Pritchard PC... Ryan D. Strohmeier has become a principal at Eckhart Kolak LLC... Jennifer Burt Tee was named a partner at Lavelle Law, Ltd.... Ronald S. Cope has joined Schain Banks as a partner... Benjamin C. Hughes has joined Freeborn & Peters LLP as a partner...Hughes Socol Piers Resnick Dym partners John Hughes , Matthew J . Piers , Catherine Reiter , WilliamSchilles , Donna Kaner Socol were named as 2018 Illinois Super Lawyers and Kendra Scheuerlein was selected as a Rising Star... Jeremy Glenn , Cozen O’Connor, has been named 2018 “Client Choice” winner by Lexology... Salvador Carranza , a partner at Freeborn & Peters LLP, was named by the Hispanic National Bar Association as one of its 2018 Top Lawyers Under 40...U.S. District Court Judge VirginiaM. Kendall , Illinois Appellate Court Justice Terrence J. Lavin, and Circuit Court of Cook County Judge Clare Elizabeth McWilliams received the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois’ Mary Heftel Hooton Award... Mark Walsh has been appointed the managing partner of Eugene F. Collins... John M. Callahan is the new managing partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP....Illinois Appellate Court Justice

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