CBA Record March-April 2023

• Try and zip the lip from slips. • Set short- and long-term professional goals and regularly review your progress. • Get it in writing. • Laugh at yourself. • Show gratitude and humility. • Take responsibility for your actions. • Every person, no matter their circumstances, deserves respect and dignity. • Don’t stand by idly when you recognize an injustice. • Transform insights into ideas, ideas into action, and action into change. • Be diligent. Be disciplined. Be determined. • Facts are not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings. • Acknowledge your prejudices and then be vigilant about them. • Self-development presupposes going beyond your comfort zone, and taking risks. • Opponents need not become friends, but neither should they become enemies. • And finally, never, never lose sight of your humanity.

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Rehearing “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?”

— Poet Mary Oliver

The CBA Board of Managers gathered for their January meeting. Seated: CBA Executive Director Beth McMeen; CBA First Vice President Ray Koenig III, Clark Hill PLC; CBA President Timothy Tomasik, Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC; CBA Second Vice President John Sciaccotta, Aronberg Goldgehn; and Immediate Past President E. Lynn Grayson, Nijman Franzetti LLP. Standing from Left: Judge Allen Walker, Circuit Court of Cook County; Judge Mary Rowland, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Michael Alkaraki, Leahy Hoste Alkaraki; Risa Lanier, Cook County State's Attorney's Office; Anthony Fata, Kirby McInerney LLP; Naderh Elrabadi, Elrabadi Law; YLS Chair Daniel Berkowitz, Aronberg Goldgehn; Patty McCarthy; Louis Apostol, Public Administrator for Cook County; Cynthia Grandfield, Del Galdo Law Group LLC; Robert Fioretti, Fioretti Campbell LLC; Eirene Salvi, Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.; Judge James McGing (ret.), Miller & McGing Law Firm; Kevin Thompson, Levin Ginsburg; and Malcom Harsh, American Bar Association. Not pictured: CBA Secretary Kathryn C. Liss, DePaul University; CBA Treasurer Nina Fain, JSS Family Trust; Octavio Duran, Duran Law Offices; Jeffrey Moskowitz, Moskowitz Law; Matthew P. Walsh II, Hinshaw & Culbertson; and Sandra Yamate, IILP.

Mechanics Liens and Construction Claims

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