CBA Record

CONTENTS

CBA RECORD

January 2016 • Volume 30, Number 1

6 President’s Page

The CBA’s New Leadership Institute

INSIDE THIS ISSUE 26 A Practical Guide to Law Division Commercial Calendar Cases By Richard Lee Stavins

10 CBANews 18 Chicago Bar Foundation Report 22 Murphy’s Law 34 Legal Ethics By John Levin 35 Ethics Extra By Jeanette Conrad Ellis 36 LPMT Bits & Bytes By Catherine Sanders Reach 38 Summary Judgment

YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION

30 Leadership Development

By Matthew A. Passen, YLS Chair

32 Amended Supreme Court Rule 341: Why One Seemingly Small Change will Transform the Way we Write By Jonathan B. Amarilio

Daniel A. Cotter reviews Lawyer, Activist, Judge: Fighting for Civil and Voting Rights inMississippi and Illinois by Martha A. Mills. John Levin reviews Kafka’s Law by Robert P. Burns

On the Cover Cover Art Courtesy of ThinkStock.

JANUARY2016 CBA

Are You Ready? AMENDED SUPREME COURT RULE 341

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LawDivision Commercial CalendarCases

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