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Results from 1st Circuit judicial elections and retentions for the General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. All judges facing retention were retained.
View results for all judicial elections and retentions outside of Cook.
Winners in Bold (ISBA ratings at right).
Mary Jane Theis (D)
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James G. Riley (R)
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The Illinois State Bar Association has judicial evaluations for every county in Illinois. Check them out at www.isba.org/judicialevaluations
Visit Illinois Lawyer Now on Wednesday for results from around the state.
ISBA President John E. Thies urges everyone to use ISBA judicial evaluations when they vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Judicial evaluations are available at www.isba.org/judicialevaluations
Our panel of leading appellate attorneys review Thursday's Illinois Supreme Court opinions in the Civil case Downtown Disposal Services, Inc., v. The City of Chicago and the Criminal case People v. Murdock.
By Karen Kies DeGrand, Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC
A corporation must be represented by counsel in legal proceedings. In a four to three split opinion, with Justice Burke writing for the majority, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a corporation's complaint, filed by its lay president rather than by an attorney, was not automatically a nullity. Rather, circuit courts should consider the circumstances of the case to determine whether the filing defect requires dismissal or may be cured.
More than 2,100 new attorneys will be admitted to practice in Illinois on Thursday, November 1 with Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court presiding and administering the attorney’s oath at five separate locations.
Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas M. Lynch to a 14-year term as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He will take office on January 3, 2013.
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recently issued regulations to take effect on January 2, 2013 that will regulate debt collection by lawyers. The press release announcing these rules may be found here, which also includes links to other information about it such as a copy of the regulations, a factsheet explaining them, and the Bureau's examination procedures for debt collections.
Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride and the Illinois Supreme Court announced on Wednesday new statewide standards and new and amended Supreme Court rules that will allow all courts in Illinois to begin electronic filing of court documents in civil cases.
Asked and Answered
By John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC
Q. We are an 8 attorney law firm in Evansville, Indiana. We have five members and three associates. We started our firm four years ago. Each member has an equal share for both ownership and compensation purposes. We cut the pie equally. After four years some of the members feel that the equal sharing approach is no longer working and we need to consider a different approach to compensation. I would appreciate your thoughts on how we might get started on modifying our approach.