The association also will present its first law student scholarship to Junaid A. Zubairi of the Loyola University School of Law. Call (708) 366-1122.
Real Estate Lawyers
A panel discussion about the Cook County real estate tax appeal process will take place Wednesday, Nov. 14, during an 8 a.m. breakfast meeting of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association at the Holiday Inn, Rolling Meadows. Call (847) 593-5750.
Panelists are Commissioner Maureen Murphy of the Board of Review, deputy director Thomas Battista of the Property Tax Appeal Board, and John G. Locallo of the Chicago firm of Amari & Locallo.
Phi Alpha Delta
The Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity will hold its annual judicial reception, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 in the seventh floor student lounge of the DePaul University College of Law. Call John K. Norris, (312) 321-9898.
Peoria County Bar
The Young Lawyers Committee of the Peoria County Bar Association will sponsor a Halloween blood drive Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the Hazen Room of the Associated Bank Building. Call (309) 674-6049 for appointments.
Northwest Suburban Bar
New Cook County judges in the 2nd and 3rd Municipal Districts will be welcomed by the Northwest Suburban Bar Association during a 6 p.m. buffet reception Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Arlington Trackside Restaurant. Call (847) 259-7908.
Special guests are Judge Donna Felton Phelps of the 3rd District, and Judges Claudia G. Conlon, Eddie A. Stephens and Mary Maxwell Thomas of the 2nd District.
North Suburban Bar
Members of the North Suburban Bar Association will meet for dinner and program Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the Terrace Restaurant at the Wilmette Golf Club. Call President Mary A. Long, (847) 272-0800.
Nordic Law Club
Presiding Judge Henry A. Budzinski and other jurists in the Cook County Circuit Court Probate Division will be guests of the Nordic Law Club at its annual Probate Night dinner Monday, Nov. 5, at the Chicago Yacht Club on Monroe Harbor (see photo on this page).
A 5 p.m. reception will be followed by a 6:30 p.m. smorgasbord and remarks by Judge Budzinski. Call Lynne R. Ostfeld, (312) 645-1066.
Matrimonial Lawyers
The annual meeting of the 1,600-member American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers will be conducted Nov. 8 to 11 at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago. Call (312) 263-6477.
Madison County Bar
Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday next month, the Madison County Bar Association will meet a week early on Thursday, Nov. 15, for dinner and program at Rusty's in Edwardsville. Call Kay Pile, (618) 296-5921.
Intellectual Property
The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago will hold its annual judicial dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, in the Fairmont Hotel. Call Timothy Delaney, (312) 321-4251. The dinner will follow a 4:30 p.m. panel discussion on patent litigation co-sponsored by IPLAC and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
DuPage Women Lawyers
Mary Robinson, administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, and Anne E. Thar of Winston & Strawn will speak to the DuPage Association of Women Lawyers during a dinner meeting Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Lisle Hilton Hotel. Call (630) 221-0802.
The program topic is "Marketing in 2001: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Attorneys." Robinson will review marketing over various media and related U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and Thar will discuss legal malpractice issues.
Conflict Resolution
Andy G. Miller, senior mediator of the Center for Conflict Resolution, is the new president of the Chicago chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution, formerly known as the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
Other officers are President-elect Anita M. Rowe, a mediator and arbitrator of labor and employment disputes; Secretary Richard Shewfelt, a retired Federal Aviation Administration mediator, and Treasurer Norman Matson, a mediator, arbitrator snd certified public accountant.
Chicago Bar
The Chicago Bar Association will honor its 50-year members during a luncheon Tuesday, Oct. 30. Call Karen Stanton, (312) 554-2131.
Black Women Lawyers
The Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago will conduct the Midwest Summit, "Bound by History, United in the Present, Defining the Future," Thursday to Saturday, Oct. 25-27, at the Swissotel. Call (312) 554-2088.
Advocates Society
The Advocates Society will hold a brief business meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, before the 6 to 9 p.m. Judges' Night reception and dinner at the Polish Museum of America at 984 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. Call Vice President Robert Zelek, (312) 346-7710.
ISBA to convene bar leaders Nov. 9
Officials of bar associations across the state have been invited to attend an ISBA Conference of Bar Officers that President Tim Eaton will convene at 12 noon Friday, Nov. 9, at Maggiano's Restaurant in the Oakbrook Center.
The conference will provide a forum for bar leaders to convey and discuss their views on such significant professional issues as legislation, multijurisdictional practice and mandatory continuing legal education, Eaton said in his letter of invitation.
After lunch, the program will begin at 12:30 p.m. with welcomes from Donald W. Ward of St. Louis, chair of the ISBA Committee on Membership and Bar Activities, and conference chair Bernard Z. Paul of DeKalb.
Eaton will follow with updates on ISBA initiatives that include special committees on appellate practice and legal assistance to military personnel, a Future of the Courts Conference in April, and the ongoing legal battle against the unauthorized practice of law.
James R. Covington III, ISBA director of legal affairs, will review the past session of the Illinois General Assembly, preview the coming spring session, and discuss legislation involving filing fees.
Specific issues will be discussed during a series of presentations, as follows.
1:15 p.m. Recommendations of the Special Committee on Attorney Financial Responsibility, with Tim Eaton.
1:30 p.m. Multijurisdictional Practice, with Christopher C. Kendall of Chicago, chair of the ISBA Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence.
1:45 p.m. Mandatory Continuing Legal Education, and the Trusts and Estates Section proposal for certification, with ISBA general counsel Dennis A. Rendleman.
Breakout discussion groups then will develop recommendations that the full conference will act on during a wrap-up session from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m.
Bar association officials who have received invitations to the conference are reminded that confirmations must be made by Monday, Oct. 29, to Janet M. Paul, ISBA director of bar services.
She may be contacted in the Chicago Regional Office by telephone at (312) 726-8775, by facsimile to (312) 726-9071, or by e-mail at jpaul@isba.org.
Robert Clifford to head ABA study of terrorism
Chicago attorney Robert A. Clifford has been named chair of a new American Bar Association Task Force on Terrorism and the Law. He will join experts in diverse areas of the law to offer advise government leaders on legislation in the wake of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"We need to make sure the mechanisms exist that will permit prompt and effective investigation and prosecution of those responsible for these heinous acts, while at the same time ensuring we preserve the fundamental principles of our system of Constitutional law," said ABA president Robert E. Hirshon.
"We need to address quickly as a nation difficult and complex issues involving electronic surveillance and wiretapping, computer encryption, immigration procedures," Hirshon said.
"As a country, we need to be ready for inconveniences, restrictions and possibly a loss of some liberties, experiences to which we are unaccustomed," he added. There are sacrifices we will need to make because we must find and deal with the terrorists."
The task force will examine all law-related policy issues implicated in the terrorist attacks, assess existing ABA policy on these issues, determine what revisions are needed or additional areas should be addressed, and bring policy recommendations to the ABA board of governors for its consideration.
"We will have a thoughtful basis for all policy recommendations we make to federal leaders on these critical matters," Hirshon said.
In addition to Clifford, who also chairs the ABA Section of Litigation, task force members include Prof. Barry Kellman of the DePaul University School of Law, representing the Section of International Law and Practice.
Among others are Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, general counsel of the University of Wisconsin, from the Standing Committee on Law and National Security; Prof. Steve Saltzburg of the George Washington School of Law, from the Section of Criminal Justice; John S. Cooke, chair of the of the Committee on Armed Forces Law; Richard P. Campbell, chair of the ABA Section of Tort and Insurance Practice; Esther Lardent of the Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law and the Pro Bono Institute, and Michael S. Greco, from the Section of Human Rights.
Clifford will speak on the panel discussion, "Foreign Plaintiffs: Issues and Problems," during an ABA Aviation and Space Law Committee seminar Oct. 18-19 in Washington, D.C.
Richard James Stevens was brother of Justice Stevens
Chicago attorney Robert James Stevens died Sept. 29 at age 86 of cancer in his Hyde Park home. He was the brothers of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
A 1938 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Stevens served in the Army during World War II and resumed law practice in Chicago in 1945. He practiced with Askow & Stevens, Tenney & Bentley, and DeWolfe, Poynton & Stevens.
The son of the builder of the Stevens Hotel (now the Hilton Hotel and Towers), Mr. Stevens was a model for some of its statuary as a boy. In later life, he wrote a play, "J.W.'s Pride," about the family's loss of the hotel during the Depression.
Also author of the plays, "The Banana Man" and "The Unitarian Fling," Mr. Stevens sang in the choir of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago. He was a Golden Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League and a founder of the Chicago Memorial Association, which provides inexpensive funeral services for members.
Mr. Stevens chaired the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness in 1978 and was vice chair of the Chicago Bar Association Younger Members Committee in 1946.
Walter Bellatti
Jacksonville attorney Walter R. Bellatti died Sept. 14 at age 86. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a 1939 graduate of the Harvard Law School, he was a partner in Bellatti, Fay, Bellatti & Beard, which was founded by his grandfather.
During World War II, Mr. Bellatti was a counter-intelligence officer on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Australia, New Guinea, Manila and Tokyo, earning a Bronze Star. He retired from the Army Reserve in 1964 as a lieutenant colonel after assignments at the Pentagon.
A past president of the Morgan County Bar Association, Mr. Bellatti was Jacksonville city attorney from 1953 to 1957. He was past president of the Passavant Area Hospital board, a member of the Morgan County Board of Health from 1970 to 1990, and a director of Elliott State Bank for 25 years.
A past president of the Illinois College Alumni Association, past vice chair of the college board and chair of its Committee on Business Affairs, Mr. Bellatti received an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1988.
Survivors include a brother, John E. Bellatti, a partner in the law firm, and a son, Robert M. Bellatti of Bellatti & Barton, Springfield, formerly of counsel to the Jacksonville firm.
Ardin Buell
Chicago attorney Ardin P. "Tim" Buell died Sept. 30 at age 51. He was senior vice president and lead counsel for ABN Amro North America, and counsel to the executive officers and commercial lending division of LaSalle Bank.
A 1976 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law who received a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University in 1982, Mr. Buell was associate general counsel for the Chicago Board of Trade before joining ABN Amro in 1989.
A varsity swimmer in college, Mr. Buell competed regularly in the annual Chicago Marathon. He had an extensive collection of underwater photographs made during scuba diving trips.
William Casteel
Retired Arlington Heights attorney William I. Casteel died Oct. 1 at age 74. After serving in the Army in Germany during World War II, he graduated in 1953 from the Northwestern University School of Law.
Kirsten Christophe
New York City attorney Kirsten Christophe, a former Peoria resident, reportedly died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.