Early bird registration is open for the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism’s 10th annual Future Is Now: Legal Services conference. The conference will be held virtually from 12 – 4:30 p.m. CDT on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
Over the past 10 years, the Future Is Now has become one of the country’s premier legal professionalism conferences, helping lawyers navigate the evolving cultural, technological, and client environment while advancing legal excellence and adhering to ethical rules.
Early bird tickets are available for $49 through March 1. The price will increase on March 2.
Attendees are eligible for 4.0 hours of professional responsibility CLE credit in Illinois, including 1.0 hour of diversity and inclusion credit and 1.0 hour of mental health and substance abuse credit.
Lawyers across all practice areas, judges, law students, law school faculty and staff, court professionals, paralegals, law librarians, other legal professionals, and anyone interested in the legal and judicial systems are invited to attend. Space is limited.
Understanding ‘The Lawyer Brain’
This year, the Commission’s featured speaker on building lawyer resilience and well-being will be Dr. Larry Richard, Founder and Principle of LawyerBrain LLC, a former litigator, and leading expert on the psychology of lawyer behavior.
Dr. Richard has collected personality data from thousands of lawyers and advised hundreds of premier law firms and corporate legal departments on resilience, change management, leadership, well-being, and talent management.
Using applied behavioral science, his session will explore the personality traits common in lawyers, and provide practical guidance that can help lawyers mitigate or leverage these traits to improve their professional success and personal health.
Additional speakers will be announced soon. Click here to sign up for Future Is Now updates.
About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
The Illinois Supreme Court established the Commission on Professionalism under Supreme Court Rule 799 to promote integrity, professionalism, and civility among the lawyers and judges of Illinois, to foster a commitment to the elimination of bias and divisiveness within the legal and judicial systems, and to ensure those systems provide equitable, effective, and efficient resolution of problems for the people of Illinois.
The Commission achieves this mission through professional responsibility CLE, lawyer-to-lawyer mentoring, legal professionalism programming, educational resources, robust communications platforms, and more. To learn more, visit 2Civility.org and follow us on LinkedIn.
Press Contact
Laura Bagby, Communications Director
312-363-6209
laura.bagby@2civility.org
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