CBA Record Nov-Dec 2019

Celebrating 50 Years of Membership – The CBA was proud to recognize 80 members who are marking 50 years of association membership this year. CBA President Jesse Ruiz hosted a luncheon at the Standard Club October 11 for some of those members and their families to thank them for their steadfast commitment and dedication to the legal profession and the CBA. Front Row (left to right): Earl J. Barnes, Gerald J. Smoller, Judge Haskell M. Pitluck, Judge RolandW. Burris, Judge Timothy C. Evans, Keith L. Davidson, Hugh C. Griffin and Michael E. Reed. Middle Row (left to right): Michael Daley, Charles A. Marvin, Richard L. Stavins, Dennis M. Feinberg, Edwin I. Josephson, Steven P. Bloomberg, Jeffrey G. Liss, John Levin and CBA Second Vice President E. Lynn Grayson. Back Row (left to right): Richard F. Friedman, Christopher B. Cohen, Jay A. Frank, Edward B. Mehlman, CBA President Jesse Ruiz, E. Garnet Fay, Charles M. Steinberg, David L. Ader, Richard E. Zulkey, Wilbur H. Boies, CBA Assistant Executive Director Beth McMeen, CBA First Vice President Maryam Ahmad and CBA Executive Director Terry Murphy.

50-Year CBA Members Honored

Managers is working on making the CBA even more relevant to younger lawyers. The program concluded with a distribu- tion of service awards and a group photo- graph. The luncheon, which has become a CBA tradition, was appreciated by all.

person U.S. Supreme Court justices he had known only through their opinions. Levin commented on how the CBA currently provides a comfortable place for lawyers to meet in an increasingly impersonal world. President Ruiz noted that the Board of

On October 11, the CBA honored mem- bers celebrating their fiftieth year of membership at a luncheon at the Standard Club. Eighty CBA members reached that milestone this year. Thirty of them and their guests attended the program, which was hosted by Jesse H. Ruiz, President of the Chicago Bar Association. Before the formal program, the attendees had the opportunity to socialize and renew old friendships. After a brief musical interlude by cast members of the 2019 Bar Show, Presi- dent Ruiz introduced Timothy C. Evans, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and John Levin, longtime Legal Ethics columnist of the CBA Record , who each gave brief remarks. In addition to reminiscing about the past, the speakers discussed the ways the CBA had been important to them, and its continuing importance to lawyers and the legal profession in Chicago. Notable to each was the opportunity the CBA pro- vided them to meet and work with other Chicago lawyers in a friendly and neutral environment. Judge Evans recalled how the CBA gave him the opportunity to meet in

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