CBA Record July-August 2024

THE YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION

I: Inclusion. The YLS has further cemented its commitment to diver sity, equity, inclusion, and belonging by adding a Chief Diversity Officer. It intends to collaborate more frequently with the many affinity bar associations across the Chicagoland area. All are wel come within the YLS. C: Civility. Bullying has become so widespread in the legal profession that the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism launched a study on bully ing within the legal profession in 2023. In a world growing more tumultuous by the day, the YLS will emphasize the need to be kind and respect each other’s differences.

S: Service. I and my fellow YLS Offi cers and Executive Council members are here to serve you, our members. In addi tion to career and professional networking opportunities, we hope to have informal and casual opportunities for our members to socialize in-person, to discover new strategies for wellness (such as cooking healthy recipes or the art of trapeze), and to learn even more about the fantastic city we call home: Chicago. We also hope to serve as a resource during the upcoming presidential election by developing voting rights CLEs and hosting a voter registra tion’s drive. The sky is the limit with the YLS, and

I am fortunate to have found a second home here. Without the YLS, I never would have had the chance to play at the Chicago Symphony with the CBA’s Orchestra, to play at a jazz club with the Barristers Big Band, or to present pro gressive legislation and CLEs at national conferences. I have made friends, found an excellent real estate lawyer (a past YLS Chair) who represented me every step of the way when I bought my condo, and gained confidence in my legal skills and abilities. This year, I invite you into my home and to help build and expand the foundations that will allow the CBA and YLS to flourish for another 150 years.

Meet Kenneth Matuszewski, Your 2024-2025 YLS Chair By Nikki Marcotte

New Young Lawyers Section Chair Kenneth Matuszewski has been a patent litigation associate at Goldberg Segalla since 2021. He focuses primarily on litigating complex and high-value intel lectual property matters in federal courts and before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He also has experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications, including gaming technolo gies, cancer treatments, blockchain technology, medical devices, and pollution control technologies. Matuszewski has already received significant accolades in his seven-and-a-half-year legal career: the ABA recognized him as one of its “Top 40 Young Lawyers” in 2021; he has been named one of the Illinois Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars in Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Litigation each year since 2021; and he has received multiple significant honors for his longstanding, unyielding ser vice to the YLS. Matuszewski certainly has taken the road less traveled to get to where he is today. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2013 with a BS in Biological Sciences and Spanish. As an undergraduate, he was (and still is) an avid musician who played the tuba in the Marching Band of the Fighting Irish and other various low brass instruments in the university’s concert and varsity bands. From there, Matuszewski returned home to Chicago to attend law school at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he served as the school’s managing editor for the Journal of Intellectual Property and participated in moot court. After graduating from law school in 2016, Matuszewski began

his legal career at a small local patent and intellectual property litigation firm. While there, Matuszewski decided to go back to school for another bachelor’s degree—this time in Computer Science from Oregon State University. After graduating in 2019 with his second BS degree, Matuszewski practiced patent pros ecution at two large Chicagoland firms before finally landing at Goldberg Segalla to practice intellectual property litigation. A strong believer in serving his legal community, Matuszewski has devoted countless hours to the YLS and the CBA. He has worn several hats since becoming involved with the YLS in 2017: he is the former Chair of the YLS Intellectual Property Com mittee, he previously served as co-editor of the @theBar blog, he currently plays euphonium and tuba for the CBA’s Barristers Big Band and Orchestra, and he has served in almost every YLS Executive Officer position. He has also been a key organizer for some of the YLS’s largest fundraisers for community partners (e.g., the 2024 fundraiser for the Edward J. Lewis Lawyers in the Classroom program). As Chair this bar year, Matuszewski is excited to continue the work of immediate past YLS Chairs, Martin Gould and Daniel Berkowitz, to increase the YLS’s visibility and engagement, not just within the organization but also with the greater Chicago legal community. Under his C.I.V.I.C.S. framework, Matuszewski aims to do this by implementing more pro bono service projects and by building a robust, diverse career and professional network ing community with several local affinity bar organizations.

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