CBA Record July-August 2025

Leadership Institute Eighteen attorneys successfully completed the CBA’s 2025 Lead ership Institute. Congratulations to: Phillip Acevedo, Croke Fair child Duarte & Beres; Cassandra Burns, McGuireWoods; Carly Chocron, Taft; Garreth DeVoe, Harris Winick Harris; Matt Durkin, Winston & Strawn; Markey A. Fowler, Chuhak & Tecson; Melissa Garcia, Clark Hill; Kennedy Harris, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila; Marnie Holz, Greenspoon Marder; Hunter Howe, Jones Day; Madeline Huerta, Hinshaw & Culbertson; Andre A. Hunter, Jr., Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani; Taylor May, Aronberg Gold gehn Davis & Garmisa; Molly J. Piazzi, Jenner & Block; Tatyana Ruderman, InfoLawGroup; Jonathan Safron, Swanson Martin & Bell LLP; Graeme Saye Tanner Sua, Reed Smith; and Sara White cotton, City of Chicago Office of the Inspector General. If you are interested in being a part of the 2026 Leadership Institute next spring, email CLE Director Jennifer Byrne at jbyrne@chicagobar.org or call 312-554-2031. Congratulations Illinois Supreme Court Appointments to the Circuit Court of Cook County: Justice P. Scott Neville appointed Lester W. Finkle as a judge in the Eighth Subcircuit. Justice Joy V. Cunningham made the following appointments: Daniel Naranjo was appointed as a judge in the Thirteenth Subcircuit; Michael Cabonargi was appointed as an At-Large Judge; and Ginger Leigh Odom as a judge in the First Subcircuit. llinois Appellate Court Justice Jesse G. Reyes received the Trailblazing Award from the Northwest Suburban Bar Associa tion and the Pusong Pinoy Award from the Filipino American Lawyers Association… Judge Morton Denlow (ret.) was honored with the Harris H. Agnew Service to Community Award by the Resolution Systems Institute… New bar association presidents for 2025-2026: Kevin Kelly , Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chi cago; Antonio C. Lee , Cook County Bar Association; Illinois Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Rochford , Illinois Judges Asso ciation; Judge Bridget C. Duignan , Illinois State Bar Association; Catherine R. Caifano Locallo , Justinian Society of Lawyers; Judge Joanne Rosado , Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois; and Katie Twardak , Women’s Bar Association of Illinois… LaRose & Bosco Ltd. added Corinne Moran as an associate to its civil litigation team… Goodman Law Group | Chicago hired Joshua H. Burday as a senior litigator… Trust Administrator and Author Daniel P. Felix recently published The Way of the Trustee: A Holistic Guide to Enlightened Trust Administration in Service to Families through the James E. Hughes, Jr. Foundation… Thomp

son Coburn added Adam Toosley as a partner, focusing on busi ness litigation… Kenneth A. Goldstein joined Honigman LLP as a partner in its private practice group and corporate depart ment… Chuhak & Tecson P.C. added Stephanie M. Berardi as an associate to its litigation department. Clifford Law Offices: Robert A. Clifford was named to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers list, and Sarah F. King was named a 2025 Rising Star of the Plaintiff’s Bar by the National Law Journal; Kevin P. Durkin spoke at the Pan European Organization of Personal Injuries Lawyers and McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law Conference in Madrid, Spain; David F. Jasinski was named a partner to the firm, and associate Courtney A. Berlin was elected to serve as the Cook County Under 37 Board of Governors representative for the Illi nois State Bar Association. Louis G. Apostol , Public Administrator of Cook County, has been re-elected Vice President to the Hellenic Foundation of Chicago… Elizabeth Lazzara , Aronberg Goldgehn, was named a 2025 Top 10 Family Law Attorney in Illinois by Best of the Best Attorneys… Daniel J. Burns was named a partner at Burns Noland… Bill Goldberg joined Levin Ginsburg as an associate attorney… Robbins DiMonte added Sarah D. Jeong to the firm. Caroline Manley stepped down as Executive Director of the Center for Disability & Elder Law and Michael Ston e was elected as its new Executive Director.…RSI presented Judg e Morton Denlow (Ret.) with the Harris H. Agnew Service to Community Award… Adam Chilton was appointed the new dean of Univer sity of Chicago Law School…. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law appointed Zachary D. Clopton as its interim dean… Jessica T. Cooper is a real estate partner at Schoenberg Finkel Beeder man Bell Glazer LLC. Neal Gerber Eisenberg rehired David L. Theyssen as a partner in its real estate practice group… Blank Rome LLP added Paige F. Wahoff as an associate to the firm’s general litigation practice group… Parente & Norem, PC welcomed Trevor Granberg as a partner/head of its workers’ compensation group… Burr & Forman opened a Chicago office and added Joseph Cohen as a partner… Arnold & Porter hired David Sheikh as a counsel to the firm’s intellectual property practice and Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani added James R. Brandt, Bradley E. Faber and Scott R. Sinson to its Chicago office. Condolences To the family and friends of Thomas Grayson-Meritt Bowers, Arthur Raphae l, Morrie Much and Lee A. Gould .

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