CBA Record

CBA’S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ENTERS SECOND YEAR

Thank you to the following law firms, organizations, faculty and the Leadership Development Planning Committee for their past and continuing contributions to the success of the CBA’s Leader- ship Institute! –Ray J. Koenig III, Leadership Institute Chair, ClarkHill PLC

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Holland & Knight LLP Locke Lord LLP Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP Mid-America Regional Bargaining Association Much Shelist P.C.

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A Judiciary and Bar in Peril

Center for Disability and Elder Law ChicagoLawyers’Committeefor Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. Clark Hill PLC Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Eimer Stahl LLP Fraczek Radelet P.C. Kimball Anderson, Winston & Strawn Cliff Berman, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Option Care Richard Chapman, Clark Hill Steve Elrod, Holland & Knight Scott J. Fisher, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Angel Gomez, AG Gomez Consulting, LLC Hon. Sophia Hall, Circuit Court of Cook County Sharon E. Jones, Jones Diversity Beth Keno, Keno Consulting, LLC Chair: Ray J. Koenig, III, Clark Hill PLC Karina Ayala-Bermejo, The Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services Aurora Austriaco, Austriaco & Bueschel P.C. Daniel Cotter, Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP Steering Committee: Faculty:

Schiff Hardin LLP Sedgwick Law LLP Seyfarth Shaw LLP SmithAmundsen LLC Thompson Colburn LLP Winston & Strawn LLP

JudgeMartha A. Mill’s article The Nation of Turkey: a Judi- ciary and Bar in Grave Peril (November CBA Record, p. 28) presents a clear-eyed rendition of the fragility of institutions we take for granted. As if to flesh out Judge Mills’article, a December 10th Wall Street Journal article entitled “Turkey’s Autocratic Turn” pointed out that Tur- key’s president, Erdogan, wants the constitution changed so he can stay in power until 2029.The article ends on the gloomy quote by Osman Can, former constitutional court justice:“the institutions have failed,”he said. Gerry DeNotto Mount Prospect, Illinois

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Peter Latz & Associates, LLC Pilgrim Christakis LLP

Deb Knupp, Akina Hon. Lisa M. Madigan, Attorney General, State of Illinois Christina Martini, DLA Piper John Mitchell, KM Advisors Sheila Nielsen, Esq., Nielsen Career Consulting

and Compliance Officer Alliant Credit Union Audrey Rubin, Chief Operating Officer, Global Law Departments, Aon Corporation Jesse H. Ruiz, Drinker Biddle Richard Shavzin, Chicago Litigation Consultants Deborah Telman, Vice President and General Counsel, Corporate Legal Services at Johnson Controls William A. Von Hoene, Jr., Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Exelon Corporation

Sally Olsen, Sidley & Austin Stephen Patton, Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago

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Steven Elrod, Holland & Knight, LLP E. Lynn Grayson, Jenner & Block Matthew Jenkins, Corboy & Demetrio Jonathan Jennings, Pattishall McAuliffe

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