CBA Record September-October 2022

CBA RECORD

P ro bono representation empowers people and communities by • Affording someone the ability to take charge of their life, • Asserting access to essential services for the poor, • Combating corporate and governmental wrongdoing, • Creating solutions to the injustice of poverty, EDITOR’S BRIEFCASE BY JUSTICE MICHAEL B. HYMAN, EDITOR - IN - CHIEF Empowering People, Empowering Communities • Elevating issues of concern to people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community and individuals, immigrants, refugees, students, the elderly, people with disabilities, and veterans, to name a few, • Enabling knowing choices by the uninformed, • Enforcing laws that protect individuals, families, and communities, • Ensuring an inclusive society, • Promoting equity and fairness in the administration of justice, • Giving voice to the disfranchised, • Helping underserved individuals address a legal problem confronting them, • Improving the lives of the mistreated, underserved, and marginalized, • ^0t(U0WO0Q L/WsL VUWO*O/0f2sMO0Qg • Informing people of their rights and how to claim them, • Invalidating and repudiating systems of injustice in our society, • Leading efforts to address employment, environmental, and social challenges in communities, • Overcoming cultural, language, economic, and other barriers to justice, • @+/'OVO0Q )PU 2Us0* S/+ -/*O)O'U */L()O/0* )/ W/0tOW)g • Safeguarding access to justice, • Securing the ability of people in dire straits to exercise their legal rights, and • Tackling injustices in its many forms that would otherwise go unexamined.

EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR - IN - CHIEF

Justice Michael B. Hyman Illinois Appellate Court

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Anne Ellis Proactive Worldwide, Inc.

SUMMARY JUDGMENTS EDITOR Daniel A. Cotter Howard and Howard A tt orneys PLLC YLS JOURNAL EDITORS Jacob B. Berger Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC Theodore Kontopoulos FORVIS Nikki Marcotte Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC Carolyn Amadon Samuel, Son & Co. Daniel J. Berkowitz Illinois A tt orney General’s O ff ice Amy Cook Amy Cook Law LLC Nina Fain Janet Sugerman Schirn Family Trust Anthony F. Fata Kirby McInerney LLP Cli ff ord Gately Judge Jasmine Villa fl or Hernandez Circuit Court of Cook County Kaitlin King Hart David Carson LLP Lynn Semptimphelter Kopon Kopon LLC John Levin Kathryn C. Liss DePaul University College of Law Bonnie McGrath Law O ff ice of Bonnie McGrath Clare McMahon Ho ff enberg & Block LLC Pamela S. Menaker Cli ff ord Law O ff ices Kathleen Dillon Narko Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Alexander Passo Latimer LeVay Fyock LLC Adam J. Sheppard Sheppard Law Firm, PC Richard Lee Stavins Robbins DiMonte, Ltd. Rosemary Simota Thompson

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Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr. Circuit Court of Cook County

THE CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION Sharon Nolan Director of Marketing

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