CBA Record January 2019

CONTENTS

CBA RECORD

January 2019 • Volume 33, Number 1

6 Editor's Briefcase The Art of Optimism 8 President’s Page

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

32 The Proper Use and Application of the Sole Proximate Cause Defense By Judge Janet Adams Brosnahan 36 Flash Fiction Winners of the CBA Record’s First Flash Fiction Creative Writing Contest

Collegiality andThe Bar

12 CBANews 24 Chicago Bar Foundation Report 26 Murphy’s Law 52 Legal Ethics Why Lawyers Practice Law By John Levin 54 Summary Judgments

YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION

44 Protecting Your Family By Brandon E. Peck 46 Defense Tools to Preclude Forum Shopping By Steven A. Montalto 48 The Voluntary Dismissal: Getting it Right By Neil P. Johnson

Reviews of Diane Redleaf’s They Took the Kids Last Night and the CBA’s 95th Annual Bar Show

JANUARY2019 CBA

On the Cover This month’s CBA Record cover artist, Caroline Eui-Kyung Kim, is a third-year law student at The John Marshall Law School, and a law student member of the CBA.

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