The ethics opinions do not have the weight of law and should not be relied on as substitutes for individual legal advice. For more information, call the ISBA Legal Department at (800) 252-8908.
Governor wins hot contest for village trustee
Flexing political instincts he honed as president of the 1975 class at The John Marshall Law School and its chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Chicago attorney Russell W. Hartigan won a campaign last month for trustee of the Village of Western Springs.
The slated caucus candidate, Hartigan was challenged by another attorney, Micheal A. DeBartolo, and a doctor, Paul Thomas. It was the village's first contested election in 25 years.
Elected to the ISBA Board of Governors in 1998 and re-elected in 2001, Hartigan served three terms on the ISBA Assembly. He is a commissioner of the Western Springs Zoning Board of Appeals, an elected trustee of the Lyons Township School Board and president of the Lyons Township Mental Health Board.
Hartigan has gained further political insights as municipal attorney for Berwyn and Evanston. He is a Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation and an adjunct professor at the DePaul University College of Law and Northwestern University School of Law.
Paul G. Foran, vice president of regulatory programs for the American Water Works Service Co., will speak on "Globalization and the Utility Industry" on Monday, May 5, in the Chicago Regional Office.
The open meeting of the ISBA Public Utilities and Transportation Law Section will begin at 12 noon. Interested ISBA members may bring lunches or purchase box lunches in advance.
Foran, a former partner in an Illinois law firm where he represented telecommunications companies, municipalities, and industrial energy and water users, joined American Water Works in 1999.
A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and former commissioner of the Illinois Commerce Commission, he served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Drinking Water Advisory Council, and the Public Council on Water Supply Research.
Please call Ann Boucher at (800) 252-8908 for reservations.
Past presidents Bone, Pusateri are 50-year honorees
The names of 143 ISBA members in good standing for 50 years were approved for distinction as 2003 Senior Counsellors by the Board of Governors on April 4.
The list includes two ISBA past presidents Maurice E. Bone of Belleville and Lawrence X. Pusateri of Chicago as well as Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow of the Illinois Supreme Court and retired appellate justice William Cousins Jr.
Absent from the list due to their recent deaths are past president Ralph A. Gabric of Wheaton, who died Nov. 21, and Cook County Judge Lester D. Foreman, who died March 28.
The Senior Counsellors will be honored Thursday, July 17, during a luncheon at the Standard Club in Chicago. The complete roster follows.
Cook County
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Cyril Farwell, Ross Miller, Marshall Rowley
CHICAGO Aaron P. Brill, Robert Brody, John Burke, Norman M. Chase, Edward X. Clinton, William Cousins Jr., George Dvorak, Martin Faier, Norman Finkel, Herbert Fisher, Mitchell Goldgehn, Hollis Green, Calvin Hall, Glen R. Heyman, John W. Hupp, Loward Lidov, Charles E. Lindell, Richard M. Lyon, Ralph A. Mantynband, Siva Martin, Mary Ann G. McMorrow, Marvin Metge, Paul J. Miller, Robert Milnikel, William Myers, Earl Neal, Lawrence X. Pusateri, Maurice P. Raizes, James Regas, Eugene L. Resnick, John Richman, Herbert I. Rothbart, James Silliman, Walter Soroka, Paul Vishny, William Vonderheide, Herman S. Werner, James N. Zartman, Lloyd L. Zickert
CHICAGO HEIGHTS S. A. Wilczynski
EVANSTON Leila Foster, James P. McCourt
GLENCOE Spencer H. Raymond
GLENVIEW Selwyn Blum, Thomas P. Cernek, Arthur O'Brien, Paul M. Olsen
HOFFMAN ESTATES Stanley A. C. Perry
LAGRANGE Louis H. Mieux
LAGRANGE PARK John C. Brezina
LINCOLNWOOD Charles Greenstein
MORTON GROVE Gabriel Berrafato
MOUNT PROSPECT Robert W. Singer, Joseph L. Zummo
NORTHBROOK Melvin R. Bramson, Fred Carman
NORTHFIELD Paul Gelfman
PARK RIDGE Albert Rubin
SKOKIE Robert Kersch, Jerome S. Levin
SUMMIT Joseph C. Balish
TINLEY PARK Marvin Shore
WESTERN SPRINGS James P. Morgan
WILMETTE Ernest E. Necheles
Collar Counties
AURORA John E. Dreyer
CLARENDON HILLS John Mann
DEERFIELD William Phillips
DOWNERS GROVE Eugene Becker
ELGIN Kenneth Miles, Richard Scheflow
ELMHURST Romolo Maione
HIGHLAND PARK Martin Ashman
HINSDALE Bernard Echlin, Joseph Librizzi
LAKE FOREST Joseph S. Balsamo, Murray R. Conzelman,
NAPERVILLE Vincent J. Biskupic, Donald J. Hennessy
Downstate
ALTON Robert Ryan
BELLEVILLE Maurice E. Bone, David B. Stutsman
BLOOMINGTON Charles Messman
CARMI Henry Lewis
CHAMPAIGN Anita Crawford, Leonard T. Flynn, Richard W. Paterson
DECATUR Daniel Moore
FREEPORT Shirl Laughlin
GALENA James B. Vincent
GRANITE CITY Leo H. Konzen
GREENVILLE Carl Stowe
LEWISTON Oral C. Kost
LINCOLN Darrell E. Klink
MARION William Novick
MATTOON Ralph Glenn
MOLINE N. Vincent Harsha, Durward J. Long
MORRIS James L. Peacock
MOUNT CARMEL Leonard Koger
MOUNT STERLING Robert Utter
MOUNT VERNON William Hanagan
O'FALLON Delmar Koebel
OTTAWA Peter F. Ferracuti
PARIS Ralph S. Pearman
PEORIA Frederick D. Johnson
PEORIA HEIGHTS Randall A. West
PONTIAC Kenneth L. Strong
ROCHELLE David K. Guest
ROCKFORD Jason Gesmer
ROCK ISLAND Marvin Andich, Franklin S. Wallace
SPRINGFIELD Robert Dehen, Robert L. Mueller
SYCAMORE Robert Jenkins
TAYLORVILLE William J. Meyer
Out of State
ARIZONA William Jacobs
COLORADO Doyle M. Weathers
CONNECTICUT John Gorecki
FLORIDA Joseph Bonner, Ralph L. Levin, Donald Martin, Peter J. McGrath, Kenneth Arthur Swartz
INDIANA Sidney Eskenazi
MARYLAND Jean Bauer Fisler
MASSACHUSETTS Vance Kirby
MICHIGAN Charles J. Pentis
MISSOURI Ronald B. Sladon
NEBRASKA Oliver J. Neibel
NEVADA Richard E. Bex
NEW YORK David Fromkin
OKLAHOMA William H. Pruett
PENNSYLVANIA Samuel VonKummer
WASHINGTON Eugene Broton
WISCONSIN Theodore Anderson, Paul A. Beckman, Milton Hansen
The ISBA Board of Governors will meet at 9 a.m. Friday, May 16, in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office.
The 127th Annual Meeting, at which Terrence J. Lavin of Chicago will succeed Loren S. Golden of Elgin as president, will be conducted June 19 to 22 at The Abbey on Lake Geneva.
The first meeting of the new Board of Governors will be held Friday, July 18, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Chicago, followed by the 29th annual board alumni dinner.
Proprietary rights among business client's concerns
The ISBA Corporation, Securities and Business Law Section seminar, "Advising Your Growing Business Client: How Do You Take It to the Next Level?" will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, in the Chicago Regional Office.
The program coordinator is section council member John T. Doyle of Chicago, and the moderator is vice chair Brent H. Gwillim of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria.
David E. Doyle of Chicago, chair of the section council, will open the program at 9 a.m. for morning speakers on Practical and Legal Issues Affecting Your Client at the Formation Stage. The schedule follows.
9:05 a.m. Organize the Legal Affairs of Your Client's Business Correctly, with Gwillim and David R. Sinn of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria.
9:35 a.m. What Are the Key Issues and Documents in Organizing Your Client's Business? with section council member William A. Price, an adjunct professor of high technology entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Wheaton.
10:30 a.m. How Do You Protect a Client's Proprietary Rights, Trade Secrets and Other Intellectual Property? with William L. Schaller of Baker & McKenzie, Chicago.
11:20 a.m. What Are Your Client's Alternatives with Respect to Financing Future Growth? with section council member Gene A. Petersen of Husch & Eppenberger, Peoria.
After the 11:50 a.m. luncheon break, the seminar will resume with afternoon sessions on Practical and Legal Issues Affecting Your Client as It Grows and Expands. The schedule follows.
12:45 p.m. What Issues Are Triggered by Raising Private Equity for Growth Capital? with section council member Nancy Fallon-Houle of Downers Grove.
1:20 p.m. Raising Private Equity: Venture Capital Financing, with section council past chair Zane M. Cohn of Chicago.
1:45 p.m. Negotiating the Sale of Your Client's Company for Shares of a Publicly Held Acquirer, with section council member Robert J. Wild of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago.
2:15 p.m. Your Client Wants to Go Public and Conduct an IPO, with section council member Robert C. Knuepfer Jr. of Baker & McKenzie, Chicago.
3:20 p.m. Advising Your Growing Business Client: How Do You Provide the Critical Legal Services Your Client Needs? The panel discussion, moderated by Gwillim, includes Cohn, David Doyle, John Doyle, Fallon-Houle, Knuepfer, Petersen, Price and Wild.
The program will conclude with a question-and-answer session from 4 to 5 p.m.
Real estate transactions involve variety of issues
A Commercial Real Estate Law Seminar will be conducted by the ISBA Real Estate Law Section from 9 a.m. to 4:35 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at The Carlisle in Lombard.
Program coordinators are section council past chair Myles L. Jacobs of Brumund & Jacobs, Joliet; vice chair Samuel H. Levine of Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago, and council member Ted M. Niemann of Schmiedeskamp, Robertson, Neu & Mitchell, Quincy.
9:10 a.m. - Regarding Commercial Real Estate Contracts, a panel discussion conducted by Jacobs. Panelists are Niemann and section council member Andrew C. Dystrup of David, Dystrup, Hoster, Osterberger & Jarot, Joliet.
10:30 a.m. - Questions and answers, followed by continuation of Commercial Real Estate Contracts panel.
11:50 a.m. Questions and answers, followed by luncheon break.
1:15 p.m. Financing Regarding Commercial Real Estate Transactions, with section council member Sandra J. Birdsall of Hasselberg, Williams, Grebe & Snodgrass, Peoria.
1:45 p.m. Environmental Law in Commercial Real Estate Transactions, with section council member William J. Anaya of Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago.
2:15 p.m. Surveys in Commercial Real Estate Transactions, with Richard F. Bales of Chicago Title Insurance Co., Wheaton.
3 p.m. Title Insurance in Commercial Real Estate Transactions, speaker to be announced.
3:30 p.m. Closing, a panel discussion by attorneys for buyers and sellers and escrow agent title company representatives.
4 p.m. Zoning, with section council member Brian P. Liston of Liston & Lafakis, Chicago.
4:15 p.m. Questions and answers.
Avoid landmines lurking amid distribution plans
The morning Law Ed Series seminar, "Planning Strategies for Receiving Distributions from Qualified Plans and IRAs, and Avoiding Potential Landmines," on Thursday, May 8, in the Chicago Regional Office is sponsored jointly by the Employee Benefits, Trusts and Estates, and Business Advice and Financial Planning Sections.
The program will begin at 8:30 a.m. with an introductory presentation by coordinator and moderator Kathryn J. Kennedy of Chicago, associate professor at The John Marshall Law School and vice chair of the Employee Benefits Section Council. The schedule follows.
8:40 a.m. Kennedy will review New Minimum Distribution Rules Under the 2002 IRS Regulations.
9:30 a.m. David A. Berek of Rooks Pitts, Chicago, a member of the Trusts and Estates Section Council, will discuss Estate Planning Considerations in Beneficiary Designations Made Under Qualified Plans.
10:45 a.m. James H. Schultz of Rock Island, chair of the Employee Benefits Section Council, will explore Effective Use of QDROS and QILDROS.