Whether you are thinking about changing practice areas, sectors, size of workplace, or your legal career altogether, during this hour you’ll hear from attorneys who have done just that. Make it a happy new year with the work and work life you want. Kathy Morris of Under Advisement, Ltd., the featured career counselor of the CBA Career Advancement Program, will moderate a panel composed of Chicago attorney reinventors who will focus on the why/when/what/where/how of changing your career to better suit you in 2024 and beyond.   

 Speakers TBA   

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Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is a popular term in the legal world, but what some may not know is that ADR is a proven mechanism to achieve social justice results because people learn how to peacefully solve problems as well as new processes and skills to manage conflict. The American Arbitration Association – International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR), in support of and as part of the CBA D.I.C.E. Initiative (Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, Equity & Engagement), would like to help CBA members learn about social justice focused organizations and how they use ADR to effect change in this second annual program. The AAA-ICDR Foundation was established in 2015 to fund projects that promote conflict resolution and prevention in communities across the world. Since then, the AAA-ICDR Foundation has donated millions of dollars to projects that have fostered change through alternative dispute resolution. CBA members often serve on boards or represent not for profit organizations in their communities and this program will offer information about how ADR can be used to meet the needs of those organizations. 

The event will be co-sponsored by the CBA D.I.C.E Committee and the YLS Racial Justice Coalition. 

Introductions: 
Nina Fain, Esq., Co- Chair, DICE Committee  
Svetlana Gitman, Esq., Vice President, AAA-ICDR 

Moderators: 
Tracey Frisch, Esq., Senior Counsel, AAA-ICDR & Corporate Secretary of AAA-ICDR Foundation
Karen Layng, Board Member, AAA-ICDR and AAA-ICDR Foundation and CEO of M.A.I.T. Co.

Participants
Dave Batchelor, Co-Director of Rewire4, Roca Impact Institute, Chelsea, Massachusetts
Daniel Kos, Assistant Statewide ADR Coordinator, NYS Office of Court Administration, Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs, Carleton-on-Hudson, NY
Yolanda Lewis, Executive Vice President for Justice and Health, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Washington, DC.

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Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

Starting Your Solo Practice: Subscription Models for Legal Services

The billable hour is going extinct - learn how implementing a subscription model can increase revenue and align incentives between your firm and clients. This presentation will provide actionable steps to make the transition, along with how firms have already successfully embraced subscription billing to improve client retention and loyalty while maintaining profitability and improving work-life balance.

Speaker: 
Matthew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney 

Panelists TBA

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Sharlyn Grace, Senior Policy Advisor for the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender has been at the forefront of the SAFE-T Act, which has brought sweeping reform to Illinois’ justice system, most prominently affecting pretrial detention and bail.  At the seminar Sharlyn will give a broad overview of the detention and bail provision of the Act, discuss how the law has been implemented in courts throughout Cook County and its collar counties, and examine recent appellate decisions in their interpretation of various provisions of the Act.  The SAFE-T Act made Illinois the first state to abolish cash bail.  The goal of this seminar will be to help practitioners navigate their clients through this new detention and bail system.

MODERATORS:
Ashley N. Rodriguez, Second Chance Law LLC
Vadim A. Glozman, Law Offices of Vadim A. Glozman
Chairs, YLS Criminal Law Committee

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This seminar will be an overview of tax deeds, assessments and assessment appeals by industry leaders. 

TAX DEEDS 101
Gregory M. Reiter, Reiter Law Offices, Ltd. 
John W. Stanko Jr., Stanko McCarthy Law Group Ltd.  
Terry J. Carter, Carter Legal Group, P.C.

ASSESSMENT AND APPEALS 101
The Tax Bill, Tax Calculations and A Brief Overview Of The Tax Appeal Process
Michael O’Malley, KSN 

The Assessor’s Office Process
Dora Cornelio, Schmidt, Salzman & Moran, Ltd. 

The Board of Review’s Process
Cristin Duffy, General Counsel, Cook County Board of Review 

Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) and Specific Objections (SPO)
Jerry Brown, Siegel & Callahan, P.C. 

Moderator:
Lauren Elliott, Elliott & Associates Attorneys, P.C., Chair, CBA Real Estate Taxation Committee

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Recognizing and Responding to Mental Health Crises in the Workplace

Studies have consistently revealed concerning statistics about lawyers’ mental health. Lawyers have the highest rates of depression among occupational groups in the United States and the fifth highest rate of suicide. An individual’s odds of encountering a fellow lawyer who is experiencing suicidal ideation are not insignificant. There are many myths about suicidality that complicate how people feel equipped to handle interactions with people they suspect might be suicidal. In this seminar, we’ll learn how to recognize some signs of a mental health crisis in the workplace. We’ll dispel myths and stigma surrounding mental health crises and discuss how you can react in this situation to attempt to help the individual in crisis. 

Speaker: 
Anne Haag is a Practice Management Advisor at the Chicago Bar Association. Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. She is also a certified crisis counselor and volunteers as a patient advocate in the ER. She is currently working towards her Masters in Social Work through the University of Illinois Chicago to become a licensed mental health professional.

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TOPIC: Systemic Failures in Health

Ms. Campbell will be presenting her forthcoming article in the Georgia Law Review. She will be highlighting an extremely important issue with monitoring and disclosing practitioner incompetence. 

SPEAKER/ORGANIZATION: Julie L. Campbell, DePaul College of Law

(IL MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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This is a hybrid program with a webcast and in-person option at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). Please indicate if you will attend in-person when registering where indicated. 

TOPIC: Chicago Real Estate: A Discussion with the Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner for the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development.

SPEAKER/ORGANIZATION:  Kathy Dickhut, Deputy Commissioner for the City of Chicago and Noah Szafraniec, Assistant Commissioner for the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development.

(IL MCLE credit for live program only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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This is a hybrid program with a webcast and in-person option at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). Please indicate if you will attend in-person when registering where indicated.

TOPIC: Discussion of Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby

SPEAKER/ORGANIZATION:  David Fisher, Coauthor of Discussion of Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.

(IL MCLE credit for live program only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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This is an in-person only meeting at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). 

TOPIC: Merry and Bright: Unwrapping AI for the Chicago Legal Community.  The speakers will discuss legal developments and risks associated with artificial intelligence.  The presentation will be followed by a networking reception, generously sponsored by LexisNexis.

SPEAKER(S)/ORGANIZATION:  Former CBA President Daniel A. Cotter, Howard & Howard and Cyber/AI attorney Carrie E. Cope, Cope Ehlers

(IL MCLE credit for live program only)

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