CBA Record September-October 2024

PRO BONO IN MOTION – 2024

At the 2006 Pro Bono Week Kick-Off: Pro Bono Week Co-Chairs Mary Meg McCarthy, National Immigrant Justice Center, and Pam Menaker, Clifford Law Offices, at far left and far right respectively, with Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, and 2006-2007 CBA President Kevin Durkin, Clifford Law Offices.

Attending the 2012 Pro Bono & Community Service Fair, left to right: Margaret Benson, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services; 2012-2013 CBA President Aurora Austriaco, Valentine Austriaco & Bueschel, P.C.; CBA Executive Director Beth McMeen; and then-CBF Assistant Director Dina Merrell.

Judge Virginia Kendall (second from right) presented at the 2017 CLE Program “Effective Representation of Individuals with Mental Health Conditions.”

Justice Michael B. Hyman was joined by Cook County judges at the 2009 Breakfast with Judges seminar. From left: Justice Hyman, Judge Lewis M. Nixon, Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., Justice Jesse Reyes, and Judge Joseph Panarese.

Attendees at the 2019 Pro Bono & Public Service Fair.

The 2013 Movies on Trial program featured To Kill a Mockingbird at the Music Box Theater. A panel discussion followed with Judge Sharon Johnson Cole man, Steve Patton, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, and Paula Litt.

Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights attorneys speak to potential volunteers at the 2016 Pro Bono & Public Service Fair.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ruben Castillo spoke to over 100 attendees at the 2014 Breakfast with Judges program.

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