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PRESIDENT’S PAGE BY DANIEL A. COTTER The Memories Will Last Forever

EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Amy Cook CBA RECORD

Amy Cook LLC Features Editor Justin Heather

The Quinlan Law Firm, LLC Summary Judgments Editor Pamela S. Menaker Clifford Law Offices YLS Journal Editors-in-Chief Jonathan B. Amarilio Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Geoff Burkhart American Bar Association

YLS, we have done much. The problems of the profession for young lawyers will con- tinue, but the CBA and YLS are committed to continuing to find relevant programs and offerings to help tackle the issues we as a profession face. Paul Ochmanek and the incoming leadership of our YLS will continue to address these issues and I com- mend them for the work they do. We truly are the ones that keep this city moving and our leadership and influence is felt throughout. From our TV Committee taping its “You and the Law” program to the WYCC interviews we film, from the Traffic Court video JudgeTomMulroy shot for the public this bar year to the Com- mercial Calendar mandatory arbitration program, from the JEC evaluations to the work of the Legsislative Committee, we are integral parts of the fabric of our com- munity. To all of our members, I thank you for committing time to not only the betterment of our profession, but the bet- terment of the community. This year has been an extremely busy one for me, but is one I will remember fondly for the rest of my career and life. If one visits the listing of Past CBA Presidents at http:// www.chicagobar.org or visits Presidents Hall at the CBA Building, it is humbling to be given stewardship of the best bar association in the country for one year. The list of past presidents is one of true giants fromChicago’s legal history, and I am honored to soon join this group. Each of the past presidents has been a mentor and friend to me and I can never expunge the “pay it forward” debt I have incurred. I truly have stood on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your devo- tion to the world’s greatest bar association.

Carolyn D. Amadon Shannon R. Burke American Bar Association Anne Ellis Proactive Worldwide, Inc. Clifford Gately Heyl Royster Angela Harkless The Harkless Law Firm Jasmine Villaflor Hernandez Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Michele M. Jochner Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP Ruth J. Kaufman Stacey R. Laskin Illinois Attorney General’s Office John Levin Bonnie McGrath Law Office of Bonnie McGrath Clare McMahon Law Office of Clare McMahon Peter V. Mierzwa Law Bulletin Publishing Company Kathleen Dillon Narko Northwestern University School of Law Adam J. Sheppard Sheppard Law Firm, PC

“We are the ones that keep this city moving, We’ll be the ones that will send you off to jail, We will dance and we will sing, For the justice that our voice will bring.” –6’10, “Da Boss” “If I have seen further it is by stand- ing on the shou l de r s o f g i ant s .” –Sir Isaac Newton “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curios- ity keeps leading us down new paths.” –Walt Disney “And bad mistakes‒I’ve made a few.” –Queen, “We Are The Champions” T his is my final column as your Presi- dent. At the beginning of the bar year, we talked about the year of the young lawyer and a year of service to the bar. We have tried to remain consistently focused on those issues throughout the year, and with various committees and the

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