News
CASA Annual Conference Advocates for Youth Mental Illness
Health and wellness isn’t just an issue tied to the legal profession. It’s also a rising epidemic impacting children across the country. That’s why CASA, the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kane County, a nonprofit volunteer organization that advocates for children in the juvenile court system, is hosting its annual fall…
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ARDC Offers Diversity Course Fulfilling New IL CLE Requirement
This July, Illinois made changes to its professional responsibility CLE requirement. From here on out, Illinois attorneys must take one hour of diversity and inclusion CLE and one hour of mental health and substance abuse CLE as part of the six hours of…
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Should Employment Be Considered in Law School Accreditation?
You’ve seen the headlines in your news-feed. “Bar passage rates are dropping.” “Law graduate employment is down, while law school debt continues to climb.” There is a crisis in legal education, and one member of the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education believes he has a…
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Press
Ed Walsh To Retire From Commission on Professionalism
Long-time Commissioner and current Vice Chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, Edward J. Walsh, is retiring from the Commission. Although Ed, the founding partner of Walsh, Knippen & Cetina, Chartered, continues to selectively represent clients who have…
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Lawyer Spotlight
Audra Wilson: United States House of Representatives
Currently, I am the Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly, but my primary area of concentration as an attorney has been public benefits with a concentration in SNAP and food security issues. How has your practice evolved…
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History Project
James Montgomery Inspiring Lawyers To Serve
I was so honored to have had the opportunity to interview Chicago attorney James Montgomery. In this video of our conversation, he reflects on what drew him to the law as a career, his work in both the public and…
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