may constitute an omission on the organization's part."
Judge Shadur finds that "this seems to embrace not only the control group, but a much broader category of people whose statements are admissible against the employer as an evidentiary matter."
Law schools to honor grads in names of pioneer women
Six Chicago law schools have announced the names of recipients of awards that will be given in memory of pioneer women graduates during a ceremony from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 2, at the DePaul Music Mart on the concourse level at 1 E. Jackson.
A seminar on restorative justice, sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women, will precede the event from 4 to 5 p.m. in conference room 8005.
Seminar speakers are Martha A. Mills of Transforming Communities, deputy Cook County treasurer; assistant state's attorney Catherine M. Ryan, chief of the Juvenile Justice Bureau, and Cheryl Graves of the Northwestern University Children and Family Justice Center.
The 5 p.m. reception, "Juvenile Justice Pioneers: A Centennial Tribute to the Women in the Juvenile Justice System," is part of the 100th anniversary commemoration of founding of the Cook County Juvenile Court.
The keynote speaker is Sandra Gardebring, vice president for institutional relations at the University of Minnesota and a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The award recipients and the pioneer women lawyers in whose names they are given are:
Diane Geraghty, the Mary Margaret Bartelme Award from the Northwestern University School of Law 1895. A professor at the Loyola University School of Law, Geraghty the child and family law program.
Appellate Justice Anne Burke, the Nellie Carlin Award from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Margaret Rosenheim, the Sophinisba Breckenridge Award from the University of Chicago Law School. A professor emeritus, Rosenheim was dean of the School of Social Service Administration.
Cheryl Cesario, the Pearl Hart Award from The John Marshall Law School. General counsel for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Cesario serves on the ISBA Child Law Section Council.
Anita Weinberg, the Edith S. Sampson Award from the Loyola University School of Law. Weinberg is a nationally recognized authority on child welfare policy.
Judge Nancy Sidote Salyers, the Margaret O'Malley Award from the DePaul University College of Law. The presiding judge of the 2nd Municipal District, Salyers was the first presiding judge of the Child Protection Division in Juvenile Court.
For more information about the reception, call (312) 362-6229. For details of the seminar, call Cheryl Cesario at (312) 814-4114 or Martha Mills at (773) 769-0393.
Corinne Wood to address WBAI candidates' forum
Today's Chicago Woman calls Corinne G. Wood of Lake Forest potentially this state's first female governor. Now serving as the first woman lieutenant governor, she's also the first lawyer on the gubernatorial team in several years.
Wood will be the keynote speaker for a candidates' reception and forum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in the Union League Club, Chicago. The sponsor is WILPOWER (The Power of Women in Law), the political action committee of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois.
"So who is this woman who could be governor," Today's Chicago Woman asks, "and does she have the stuff governors are made of? Men call her pushy. Feminists call her assertive. Either way, Corinne is good news for advancing causes that concern women," the author concludes.
A former state representative, Wood is a graduate of the Loyola University School of Law and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development and received a Legislative Leadership Award in 1997.
Reservations for the WILPOWER reception are $40. Call the WBAI office, (312) 341-8530.
70 years in practice, Samuel Lanoff recalls young Arthur Goldberg
Samuel M. Lanoff is one of the few Illinois attorneys who has remained in practice for 70 years. He graduated from The John Marshall Law School in 1930, which he says "was not a good year to become a lawyer."
At age 22, Lanoff obtained a position with the Chicago firm of Kamfner & Halligan at a salary of $25 per week. One of his associates for a two-year period was a young lawyer named Arthur J. Goldberg.
Lanoff recalls that Goldberg "would almost extemporaneously dictate an entire brief for an upper court. He once asked me to write a brief in a matter he was handling. I gave it to him and he thanked me.
"When I saw a copy of the brief he submitted to the court, it did not contain any of my language," Lanoff said. "Naturally I was disappointed, but he did have a mind that started where others ended."
A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law with almost perfect grades, Goldberg was a major in military intelligence during World War II, under William Donovan in the Office of Strategic Services.
"In Chicago, Goldberg was associated with Carl Devoe, Abner Mikva, Abe Brussels and Milton Shadur," Lanoff said, and he became the chief negotiator for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). "He was an adviser to Philip Murray, George Meany, William Green and Walter Reuther."
Lanoff itemizes among Goldberg's major achievements with the union that: "He ousted the communists, made pensions a part of collective bargaining, attacked labor corruption, brought labor support in the election of John F. Kennedy, instituted 'no raiding' between the CIO and AFL, and was a key factor in their merger."
Goldberg was named Secretary of Labor in 1961, and was a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 until 1965, when Lyndon Johnson appointed him as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
"He was a brilliant jurist," Lanoff remembers. "People ask me why Goldberg would give up a lifetime job on the Supreme Court. I believe it was partly because President Johnson asked him to do so, and partly because he believed he was uniquely qualified for the job.
"In truth, he was a very skillful person, but the period in time was against him. There were too many controversies which were not subject to mediation."
Another talented trial lawyer at Kamfner & Halligan was Edwin A. Halligan. Lanoff later formed a partnership with Halligan and Charles J. Morgan, both of whom have died.
"Halligan carried his wry sense of humor into the courtroom," Lanoff said. "He chewed tobacco, and in those days there was a spittoon in every courtroom.
"Once during a jury trial, and while his opponent was making a closing argument, Halligan exhibited a mouthful of tobacco, looking for the spittoon. The jury was visibly distracted until he was able to spit it out. The verdict was favorable."
Lanoff recalled another Halligan case, during which a fist fight over the seating arrangements broke out between two members of a synagogue.
"The synagogue supplied six rabbis to stand in the hallway, praying for victory as though it was the Wailing Wall," Lanoff said. "Whether the jury saw them or not, I do not know, but there was a favorable verdict for the synagogue and the defendant."
The firm was involved in several prominent federal wage and hour cases during the 1940s. "One was of particular interest," Lanoff said. "We filed suit in the U.S. District Court in behalf of 53 fireman who were employed in the ordnance plant at Elwood.
"The U.S. government owned and maintained the plant for the manufacture and processing of shells, bombs, explosives and munitions for the armed forces," he said. "The plant was extensive, and there was a fire department consisting of three stations."
The fireman would clock out for eight hours during each 24-hour shift and sleep in beds in the firehouse. "Judge John Barnes held that since they were subject to call at any time, they were entitled to overtime beyond 40 hours" (Bell v. Porter, 66 Fed Supp 49).
The judgment was reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals (Bell v. Porter 1946, 7 Cir. 159 Fed (2d) 117), and the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari.
"I was elated," Lanoff said, "since it would be my first opportunity to argue a matter in the highest court. One week later, however, the court on its own motion vacated its order and denied our appeal on the ground that a prior case involving a similar issue was pending."
Lanoff considers trial work and appellate practice "the most rewarding aspects of my life as a lawyer," but during recent years with Morgan, Lanoff, Denniston & Jackson, he has "lived a more placid life as a real estate and probate lawyer."
A past chair of the Chicago Bar Association Probate Practice Committee and a Fellow of the American College of Probate Counsel, Lanoff has been a director of two Chicago-area banks.
The third in a series of statewide public hearings of the Guardianship Reform Project will be conducted from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, at Equip for Equality, suite 500, 11 E. Adams, Chicago.
Participation is encouraged among service providers, professionals, individuals under guardianship, individuals facing the possible loss of self-determination, and family members uncertain about the future for loved ones who are elderly or disabled.
Written and oral testimony may be provided, with a five-minute limit. Sign language interpreters will be available. Call E. G. Enbar, (800) 537-3632, ext. 312, for more information.
Equip for Equality, a not-for-profit organization, has been designated by the governor to implement the federal protection and advocacy system with broad statutory power to safeguard the rights of people with physical and mental disabilities.
Business advice collegiums set in Chicago, Springfield
Legal representation for a partner who becomes a client when a law firm faces dissolution will be the subject of the 10th annual ISBA Business Advice and Financial Planning Collegium next month in Chicago and Springfield.
The Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Council will conduct the programs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 4, at the ISBA Chicago Regional Office, and Saturday, March 18, at the Illinois Bar Center in Springfield.
The hypothetical, which involves a lawyer whose partnership was converted to a law firm that is in danger of dissolving, also will interest practitioners who are considering moves and firms that face economic problems.
The lawyer wants to form a new firm, so he can protect himself from liability for debts of the dissolving firm, handle retirement plan funds properly, and protect his estate as he enters a second marriage.
The hypothetical will be distributed to ISBA members who register in advance for one of the collegiums. Related ethics opinions, case articles and copies of pertinent agreements will be provided.
Details of the situation, and questions that arise, will be reviewed during a morning plenary session, after which solutions will be developed by registrants in four small groups. After lunch, solutions will be discussed in a concluding session.
Attendance at each collegium is limited to available space at the site. The registration fee of $30 includes expanded course materials, coffee, doughnuts, lunch and soft drinks.
Registration forms, which can be obtained by calling (800) 252-8908, and checks payable to the ISBA should be submitted by Feb. 25 to Brenda Todt at the Illinois Bar Center in Springfield.
Board to convene March 10, May 19
The ISBA Board of Governors has scheduled meetings at 9 a.m. Friday, March 10, in the Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, and on Friday, May 19, in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office.
The previously scheduled May 17 board meeting and legislative reception in Springfield were canceled because of the anticipated early adjournment of the General Assembly in April.
The 124th ISBA Annual Meeting will be conducted at The Abbey on Lake Geneva in Fontana, Wis., from June 22 to 25. Herbert H. Franks of Marengo will succeed Cheryl I. Niro of Chicago as president.
Young Lawyer of Year award program adopted
The ISBA Board of Governors has approved the establishment of a Young Lawyer of the Year Award program. Two plaques will be presented annually one each to a Cook County lawyer and a downstate lawyer.
The recipients will be selected by a committee of the Young Lawyers Division from nominations made by individuals, bar associations and civic organizations.
Among the criteria are contributions that enhance the standing of young lawyers in the profession and community activities in public service, volunteer work and pro bono representation of the indigent.
The first awards are expected to be presented during the YLD Law Day program on April 29. Complete details will be announced when the nomination form is completed.
Law student award deadline March 31
Nominations for the annual ISBA Law Student Division Public Service Award may be made through Friday, March 31. The award will be presented at a luncheon during the ISBA Annual Meeting in June at The Abbey on Lake Geneva.
A finalist will be selected from each law school affiliated with the ISBA, and each will receive a plaque. The Public Service Award recipient also will receive transportation to the meeting, one night's lodging, and a charitable donation of $250 to the organization of choice.
Nominees must be members of ISBA law school chapters. To obtain a nomination form and complete information, write to the ISBA Law Student Division, Illinois Bar Center, 424 S. Second St., Springfield, Ill. 62701, or call (800) 252-8908.