The Illinois Lawyers' Assistance Program (LAP) is seeking a bookkeeper/administrative assistant position.  This part-time position reports to the executive director and provides support to the organization and staff in an effort to advance the organization’s mission of providing assistance to the Illinois legal community in the areas of substance use and mental health impairment.  

The State Bar of California is considering a proposal that would allow legal technicians to offer legal advice and nonlawyers to share fees with attorneys. Similar proposals have drawn criticism from Illinois State Bar Association leaders, who claim they would fundamentally shift the legal landscape.  “It has been the consistent position of the Illinois State Bar Association that the practice of law is a privilege reserved for licensed lawyers,” said ISBA President David B. Sosin. “The sharing of fees with hedge funds, multi-national corporations, and nonlawyers has been a disaster in other countries. Most importantly, nothing in the California proposal, or similar proposals and plans, address the preeminent issue, which is the protection of the public.”

Join us online from 1 until 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17 for an intermediate to advanced look at how to use technology to find electronic discovery and produce electronically stored information for your next case.

Unclear Seventh Circuit precedent and conflicting district court opinions have left unresolved whether corporate financial information is discoverable in relation to a punitive-damages claim in federal court. In his August 2019 Illinois Bar Journal article, “Cracking Open the Corporate Coffers,” Thomas A. Drysdale, a chambers law clerk to the Hon. Eric I. Long of the Central District of Illinois, argues that corporate wealth is discoverable, analyzes its admissibility, and proposes a solution to resolve the tension between the relevancy and admissibility questions.