CBA Record November-December 2024

and Dan Lynch in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America … To the Chicago Lawyer & Chicago Daily Law Bulle tin’s 40 Under Forty to Watch 2024: Christine Barone , Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.; Jennifer Enloe , Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck, LLP; John Giokaris, Rock Fusco & Connelly, LLC; Kathryne Hayes , Collins Bargione & Vuckovich; Kellie Maggie Mazzarella, Hin shaw & Culbertson, LLP; Maggie Mendenhall Casey , City of Chicago Department of Law; Michael Sciaccotta , Kirkland & Ellis LLP; and Thomas Tomasik , Clifford Law Offices… and Romanucci & Blandin LLC added Senior Attorney Joshua M. Levin as a member of the firm’s civil rights group. News on former CBA Board Members: Allen P. Walker was installed as president of the Illinois Judicial Council; and Greta G. Weathersby was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court as a member of the Committee on Character & Fit ness, First District… The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice was honored with the Justice Innovation Award by the Law Center for Better Housing… Erin McAdams Franzblau was installed as president of the Federal Bar Associa tion… Katten promoted Benjamin Lavin to partner in its Chi cago office… Cooper Trachtenberg Law Group partner Helena L. Trachtenberg was named a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers… Sidley Austin LLP elected partner

Brian J. Fahrney as Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee… and The Center for Disability & Elder Law, initially proposed by the CBA Young Lawyers Section in 1982, celebrated its 40th anniversary; Eva Adams was added to CDEL and will lead the organization’s Housing Preservation. Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP celebrated its 40th anniversary in Chicago… Corboy & Demetrio welcomed their newest partners, Conrad C. Nowak and Chad D. Kasdin … Clif ford Law Offices partner Bradley M. Cosgrove will speak at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s annual Medical Malpractice Seminar on December 13, 2024… Quarles & Brady LLP elected John Aramanda to partner in the firm’s Chicago office… Han dler Law, LLP partner Thomas J. Handler was honored with the Family Wealth Alliance Thought Leadership Award and recog nized in the FamCap 50 list of the top 50 family enterprise advi sors globally… Evergreen Park-based Scannell & Associates hired Karissa L. Frazier as a litigation attorney… and Kogut & Wilson hired Darby A. Groberman and Nike Roman as associates. Condolences To the family and friends of Justice Themis N. Karnezis (ret.), Tyrone C. Fahner, John J. Conroy, Jr., Michael R. Fayhee , and Circuit Court Judge William E. Gomolinski (ret.).

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