Need to brush up on your brief drafting skills?  Looking for some quick tips and techniques to make your brief writing more effective? Join us as Howard Suskin, partner in Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice and its Class Action Practice, will give a master class in effective brief writing for attorneys of all skill levels.

Speaker: 
Howard S. Suskin, Jenner & Block LLP

Howard S. Suskin is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice and its Class Action Practice.   Mr. Suskin has substantial first-chair experience representing individuals and business entities in civil and criminal securities matters, including class actions alleging securities fraud and misrepresentation claims, derivative actions claiming breach of fiduciary duty, contests for corporate control, insider trading investigations and broker-dealer issues.  He serves as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, and for self-regulatory organizations including the Chicago Board Options Exchange, FINRA and the National Futures Association.  Mr. Suskin is an active member of the ABA Securities Law Committee, including serving as Co-Chair of the Class and Derivative Actions Subcommittee.  Mr. Suskin currently serves as General Counsel for the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), and served previously as a member of the CBA’s Board of Managers and as Chairman of the CBA’s Class Action Committee, Bench & Bar Committee, Financial & Investment Services Committee and Securities Law Committee.   

Mr. Suskin is a member of the Advisory Board of Board IQ, a Financial Times publication, and the faculty of Practising Law Institute, and has served as a member of the Advisory Boards of The Deal and Law360.  He has lectured extensively and has published numerous treatises and articles on issues relating to arbitrations, class actions and securities law, including serving as editor and co-author of the West Publishing Illinois Civil Litigation Guide, the Lexis/Nexis Class Action Deskbook, Moore’s Federal Civil Motion Practice and Pretrial Civil Litigation, the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education Treatise on Class Actions, and the ABA’s Annual Survey of State Class Action Litigation.  Members of the Leading Lawyers Network have consistently recognized Mr. Suskin’s work in several areas including class actions, commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and securities and venture financing law.  He has been recognized by Chambers for his work in securities litigation, named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for commercial litigation, and listed eight times as a “Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer.”  Mr. Suskin graduated from Northwestern University with distinction, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and obtained his J.D. degree with honors from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of the Michigan Law Review.

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This course is for New Lawyers only. This is a hybrid event with an in-person and a webinar option. Please select the appropriate button when registering if you plan to attend in-person. Event will take place at Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604.

The CBA's Basic Skills Course for Newly Admitted Attorneys will satisfy the Supreme Court of Illinois' MCLE Rule 793 Requirement for Newly Admitted Attorneys 6.00 hours of basic skills course requirement which includes Professional Responsibility, 1.00 Diversity / Inclusion & 1.00 Mental Health / Substance Abuse PR-MCLE Credits.

8:40 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Marty Gould, Chair of the CBA YLS 
                                                                                          
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
MCLE Requirements
Karen Johnson, Director, Illinois MCLE Board        

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Basic Skills and Strategies to Practice Self-Care and Make your Mental and Physical Wellbeing a Priority
Erin Clifford, J.D., M.A., Certified Holistic Health Coach     
                                                                                          
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 
Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Sandra Yamate, Chief Executive Offer, Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession                                                                   

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 
BREAK                                                               
                                                                                          
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 
Pro Bono:  Supreme Court Rules and Opportunities
Elise Tincher, Associate Director of Programs & Advocacy, The Chicago Bar Foundation       

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 
Taking and Defending Depositions
Eirene Salvi, Salvi Schostok & Pritchard
                                                                                          
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
LUNCH BREAK                   

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Business Law Transactions for Beginners
Speaker TBD 

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Cybersecurity Overview for New Attorneys
Anne Haag, Practice Management Advisor, The Chicago Bar Association
                                                                                          
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Legal Research: Mining the Web for Information
Catherine Sanders Reach, Director of the Center for Practice Management, North Carolina Bar Association 

2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
BREAK                                                               

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Ethics for New Attorneys
Mary Andreoni, Ethics Education Counsel, Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC)                  

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Civility in the Profession . . . How to Play Nice 
Panelists:
Margaret Mendenhall Casey, Supervising Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago   
Peter McNamara, Chief Attorney, Labor and Employment, Chicago Transit Authority
Tanvi Patel, Partner, Neal Gerber Eisenberg           
Additional Panelist TBD
Moderator:  Hon. Nichole C. Patton, Circuit Court of Cook County  

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An Overview of Election Auditing: Restoring Trust in U.S. Election Administration 

This is a hybrid event with an in-person and a webinar option. Please select the appropriate button when registering if you plan to attend in-person. Event will be held at Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604.

Polls indicate that confidence in America's elections are at historic lows. By verifying the accuracy and integrity of our elections, election audits can improve trust in election administration. This seminar will provide an overview of election auditing, with special attention given to risk-limiting audits. This program is co-sponsored by the CBA Election Law Committee and the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law. 

Panelists:
Bill Kresse, Esq., CPA, CFE, Commissioner, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners & Associate Professor, Governors State University
Noah Praetz, President & Co-Founder, The Elections Group

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The topic of soft skills has gotten a lot of bandwidth recently in the wake of the increasingly widespread use of ChatGPT in professional settings. Soft skills are a significant factor that sets people apart from artificial intelligence. AI might be able to help automate some of the more rote elements of your law practice, but it will never be able to interact with clients in the way that you can. In this seminar, we’ll discuss how to sharpen several key soft skills that will help you better interact with clients, reminding them of the value of that human touch. We’ll pay special attention to active listening and empathic communication.

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 in hopes of becoming a licensed mental health professional.

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This is an in-person event to be held at The Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL, 60604

Learn about the current state of the new arriving migrants nationally and in Chicago. Hear stories of people who have come to the U.S., learn about their available legal avenues for relief, and learn how you can get involved to help. This CLE will cover the basics of asylum law; participants wishing to represent pro bono clients in asylum cases will be given information about how to obtain additional training.  

Speakers: 
Stephanie Spiro, Supervising Attorney, Asylum Project, National Immigrant Justice Center
Alix Strunk, Supervisory Attorney, Immigrant and Workers’ Rights Practice Group, Legal Aid Chicago 
Jacqueline Garcia, Staff Attorney, Immigration Project, Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services 

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This is a hybrid event with an in-person and a webinar option. Please select the appropriate button when registering if you plan to attend in-person. The event will take place at Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL, 60604.

The seminar will be focused on how attorneys can market and develop books of business. The topic is not an item that is ever really discussed in law school; however, the importance of business development is well-understood and bringing in new business sustains a firm. The speakers will discuss how they have developed their books of business in differing fields and types of law firms. 

Speakers: 
Martin Gould, Romanucci & Blandin  
Alexander Passo, Latimer LeVay Fyock LLC  
Parker Stinar, Stinar Law PLLC  

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Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

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. 

Web browsers and search engines store and track large amounts of user data. The erosion of online privacy has been gradual and subtle over the years, but it has significant implications for lawyers whose search histories and web activity likely reveal much information about their work and clients. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that has long promised greater privacy. The company recently launched a web browser that offers the same promise. How seriously should you take this promise, and is it worth abandoning your current web browser and preferred search engine to use DuckDuckGo? In this seminar, we’ll break down what the platform actually offers and how much benefit it might provide to lawyers looking to increase their online privacy so that they might better protect their sensitive data (and that of their clients). 

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 in hopes of becoming a licensed mental health professional. 

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Today, our society has become more aware of the need to understand gender differences. Thanks to the community of LGBTQ+ activists, gender-neutral pronouns have cemented their position in daily life. For example, some social media platforms now allow users to choose “custom” in the field for gender. Social media platforms use scores of options for this purpose. This innovative class will be offered as part of our continuing legal education series on legal writing. 

As part of our DICE initiative, CBA Editorial Board Member and the CBA Record’s Senior Editor Anne Ellis will discuss effective legal writing with an eye on the importance of mastery of inclusive and gender-neutral writing. The class will be moderated by Illinois Appellate Justice Michael B. Hyman, Editor-in-Chief of the CBA Record. Attendees will learn about common errors and misuse of terms, grammatical issues, and organizational challenges that can impede communicating with the reader or be considered inappropriate or unprofessional. 

This program is brought to you by the CBA's D.I.C.E Committee in partnership with the CBA Record, and the Young Lawyers Section.

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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. 

No matter your experience level or practice sector, there are unwritten expectations in progressing from a newer lawyer to a mid-level manager and ultimately to a leader.  But all these stages are important for your developing career. Join us to learn to identify and overcome the challenges, hearing from experts who run and lawyers who help shape and take their leadership workshops.  

Featuring:

John Mitchell, JD/MBA, Leadership Coach at KM Advisors; Chair of the CBA Leadership Institute and Core Faculty for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams, President of Legal Talent Advisors, LLC; Executive Director of the Young Partners Accelerator for senior associates and newly promoted partners

Panelists:
Marissa Downs, Partner, Laurie & Brennan, LLP
Andrew Gilbert, Partner, Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres
Elizabeth Lopez, Senior Managing Counsel, United Airlines
Marlon Lutfiyya, Director of Talent and Diversity, Neal Gerber Eisenberg

Moderator: 
Kathy Morris, Founder of Under Advisement, Ltd.; Featured Career Counselor, CBA Career Advancement Program and Member Leader Emerita, Forbes Coaches Council

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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. 

All CBA members and their guests (nonmembers welcome) are invited to join the CBA LGBTQ+ Committee for a fun night of games and mini golf as we kick off the bar year! The social is free to attend, and attendees are free to purchase their own food, drinks, and mini golf. 

Time: 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Location: Big Mini Putt Club in Lakeview, 3655 N. Halsted St., Chicago

RSVP at tinyurl.com/CBASocialOct12.

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