CBA Record March-April 2020

Congratulations Aurora Austriaco has been named one of the Top 20 Global Women of Excellence and will be honored at the 8 th Annual Congressional International Women’s Day Gala. Steven M. Elrod and Peter M. Friedman are new partners at Elrod Friedman LLP concentrating in land use and government law… Illinois Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Thomas has retired from the Illinois Supreme Court and has joined Power Rogers LLP… Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox was appointed Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of lllinois by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer … Thomas A. Demetrio , Corboy & Demetrio, was ranked first by Illinois Super Lawyers in 2020… Clifford Law Offices was named Aviation Law Firm of the Year by the National Law Journal … Robert A. Clifford was selected to Illinois Super Lawyers Top 10 List and Kevin P. Durkin and Keith A. Hebeisen were selected to Illinois Super Lawyers Top 100 List… Sarah F. King was named a partner at Clifford Law Offices… Joshua A. Nesser was named a new shareholder at Lavelle Law… Jeremy Glenn , managing partner at the Chicago office of Cozen O’Connor, was named a Client Choice 2020 Award winner by Lexology in its Illinois employment and benefits law category… Seyfarth Shaw LLP , a premier Chicago global law firm, is celebrating its 75 th Anniversary… Illinois Appellate Court Justice Mathias W. Delort has received the Robert J. Mangler Distinguished Service Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association… Philip “Flip” Corboy was named to Illinois Super Lawyers Top 100 for 2020... Tony Romanucci , Romanucci and Blandin LLC, was named chair of the new Ethylene Oxide (EtO) Litigation Group at AAJ. David C. Hilliard , Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, has been named as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in 2020… Peter Coolsen has retired after 17 years of service as Court Administrator of the Circuit Court’s Criminal Division… Deane B. Brown , shareholder at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym Ltd., was named to the Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyers and to the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers list… John L. Litchfield was elected a partner at Foley & Lardner’s Chicago office… Jessica Ekhoff has become a partner at Pattishall and was also appointed Co-Chair for 2020/2021 of the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in the Law Programming Committee… Phillip Barengolts , Pattishall partner, was re-elected vice president of the board of directors of the Lawyers for the Creative Arts… Jonathan Clark Green was installed as president of the Advocates Society…U.S. Congressman Mike Quigley received the Advocates Society’s 2020 Award of Merit at the group’s Annual Installation Dinner… Kevin M. Forde and Michael K. Forde announced their new firm, Forde & O’Meara LLP… CBA Past President Kerry R. Peck was featured in an ABA Journal article entitled: “Why Elder Law is a Growing, Anything- Can-Happen Practice”… Diana Bowman has joined Perkins Coie’s Construction and Real Estate Litigation Practice…The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation is celebrating its 20 th anniversary… Margaret A. Bentley is a new associate at Kelley Kronenberg… WilliamR. Coulson has a featured article in the April 2020 edition of World War II Magazine about the battle of Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Kirkland & Ellis LLP received the Center for Disability & Elder Law’s (CDEL) Partner of the Year Award; Illinois Representative Barbara Flynn Currie (retired Majority Leader), Illinois Representative Will

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