CBA Record May-June 2025

be one of the most prestigious and award-winning metropoli tan bar associations in the country. To become more involved in CBA and YLS volunteer opportunities, email membership@ chicagobar.org with your interest areas. Negotiation and Mediation Skills Training The CBA will host its “Advanced Workshop for Improved Nego tiation and Mediation Skills” on May 29 and 30 at the CBA Building. The workshop provides attendees with cutting-edge strategies for successful negotiation and advocacy and will pro vide insight on how to mediate difficult disputes. Presenters will discuss methods to resolve issues on their merits rather than through a haggling process and will highlight strategies that will ensure fairness while negotiating but will prevent you from being taken advantage of. Past CBA President Judge Thomas R. Mulroy (ret.), Resolute Systems, is serving as Workshop Chair. See details and registration at Learn.ChicagoBar.org. Justice John Paul Stevens 2025 Award Nominations Each year, the Association honors lawyers and judges whose careers best exemplify the integrity, commitment to public ser vice, and distinguished career of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Justice Stevens served as Second Vice President of the CBA until his appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 1970. In December 1975, he was nominated to fill the vacancy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and was sworn in several weeks later. He retired in 2010 after 34 years – making him the third-longest serving justice in the Court’s history. In 2000, the Chicago Bar Association Board of Managers and Justice Stevens’ law clerks established the award that bears his name, the highest award pre sented by the CBA. Nominations for the 2025 Justice John Paul Stevens Award should be submitted by August 11, 2025. Please email them to Beth McMeen at bmcmeen@chicagobar.org. The presentation date will be announced in early fall. Hit the Links with the CBA The CBA’s Annual Golf Outing will be held on September 16 at The Glen Club in Glenview, Illinois. Stay tuned for details at www.chicagobar.org/golf. Congratulations To the 2025 Vanguard Award recipients: Advocates Society, L. Steven Rakowski ; Arab American Bar Association of Illinois, Nura Yanaki ; Asian American Bar Association, Theodore Y i; Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc., Judge Jacqueline P. Cox ; Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago, Judge Thomas More Donnelly ; Chicago Bar Association, Ray J. Koenig III ; Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago, Alan K. Tse ; Cook County Bar Association, Larry R. Rogers, Jr. ; Decalogue Society of Lawyers, Howard H. Ankin ; Filipino American Lawyers Association, Judge Aileen Bhandari ;

Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois, Thomas G. Massouras ; Hispanic Lawyers Association of Lawyers of Illinois, Homero Tristan ; Justinian Society of Lawyers, Frank A. Sommario ; LAGBAC -Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association, Judge Linda J. Pauel ; Muslim Bar Association of Chicago, Leena Odeh ; Puerto Rican Bar Association, Hilda Frontan y; South Asian Bar Associa tion of Chicago, Amrith Kaur Aakre; and Women’s Bar Associa tion of Illinois, Judge Mary Colleen Roberts (ret.). The CBA’s Alliance for Women honored Mary Smith (Vice Chair, VENG Group and ABA Immediate Past President, 2024 2025) with its Founder’s Award; and Gail Eisenberg (Partner, Loftus & Eisenberg) with its Alta May Hulett Award… Sandra S. Yamate , Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Inclu sion in the Legal Profession, is the new President-Elect of the National Association of Women Lawyers… Chief Judge Diane S. Sykes of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 7th Cir cuit will assume senior status on October 1, 2025… former Illi nois Supreme Court Judge Chief Justice Rita A. Garman joined the Champaign-based firm of Webber & Theis P.C. Justice Garman served on the Court from 2001-2022 and was Chief Justice from 2013-2016… Circuit Cook of Cook County Judge Clare E. McWilliams (Ret.) joined Resolute Systems… Aurora Austriaco was elected Secretary of the Board of Chicago United and received Chicago United CEO Council Champion Award… Tabet DiVito & Rothstein added CBA Board Member Brian C. Haussmann as an equity partner… Loretto Kennedy was hon ored by Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth with its annual “My Hero Award”….former Board Member Scott Henry began a new position as Managing Shareholder at Maron Marvel… Regina P. Etherton was elected President of the Lake Forest Caucus by the registered voters of Lake Forest… Karen Munoz , Co-Chair of the CBA Well-Being & Mindfulness Committee, is dedicating her self to lawyer mental health, well-being, and mentoring through Roaring Grace, a space for supporting healthier, happier legal professionals. Chicago Bar Foundation news: Kristian (Krist) Werling , McDermott Will & Emery, is chairing the CBF’s 2025 Investing in Justice Campaign. The CBF Legal Aid Academy has a new name and a new and expanded mission—thanks to Steve and Linda Patton and their gift of more than $1 million. The acad emy will now be known as the CBF Patton Legal Aid Train ing Academy ... CBF Chief Grants Officer & COO Melaine McBride , and Roya Samarghandi , Chief Advocacy & Innova tion Officer for the CBF, were named to the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) Rising List. Sharon E. Jones (Partner and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Hayes and Boone LLP), Eileen M. Letts (Partner at Zuber Lawler, LLP), and Kathleen Dillon Narko (Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and member, CBA Record Editorial Board), were named to NAWL’s inaugural Impact List… Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP partner William J. Rogers received the Jury Verdict Reporter’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Plaintiff Award and Bruce R. Pfaff

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