Annual Meeting - Exhibitors and Sponsors

June 6 – 7, 2024
Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch
St. Louis, Missouri
(map and directions)

Exhibitors

Actionbrand Marketing

We help attorneys stand out and attract loyal clients who refer by blending innovative branding with dynamic marketing. This allows you to grow effortlessly and dominate your areas of specialty. Stop by our booth and get a FREE copy of our Amazon #1 Best-Selling book, "This is ActionBrand Marketing."

Amata

Amata has created the back-office operations of an AM100 law firm, for solo and small law firms. Paralegals, paralegal assistants, as well as on-site and virtual assistants all act as an extension of your law firm.  Leveraging Amata's experienced resources allows you to elevate your law firm operations and get you back to spending time with your clients.

AMBA

Did you know your Illinois State Bar Association membership could help protect your income, family and business by providing you with dependable coverage at exclusive member rates? ISBA Insurance Plans include: Personalized service, with Insurance professionals who understand the unique needs of attorneys. AMBA ensures that each product meets the strictest standards, including affordability and stability.

The Bar Plan

The Bar Plan is proud to provide solo, small and mid-sized firms with lawyers’ professional liability insurance, business coverage, risk management, award-winning CLE and other essential insurance products and management services.

Caret

At CARET, our goal is to help legal and accounting businesses create space for what matters. And we know that what matters will be different from practice to practice and from firm to firm. By giving you the tools to work smarter, you can spend more time focusing your energy on what’s important to your business, and less time on the work that feels like, well, work.

Churchill Reporting

Churchill Reporting is the premier court reporting and legal video deposition firm in Illinois. We are a local team of court reporters and videographers who live in places like in Indiana, Illinois, and New York. Our goal is to provide attorneys in Illinois with video and trial presentation technology that is as good or better than any jurisdiction in the United States. We are here to ensure the Illinois is on the cutting edge of discovery and trial technology.

Clio

Everything your law firm needs. All in one place. Simplify every aspect of your law firm, from billing to communication and document management. Learn more at www.clio.com.

ISBA Membership

Have all your ISBA membership questions answered, pick up valuable information about ISBA member benefits including our online career center, research and networking tools and much more!

ISBA Mutual Insurance

Exclusively focused on providing Illinois Attorneys and Law Firms with unparalleled professional liability insurance. Since our founding in 1988 as a mutual insurance company, ISBA Mutual has provided attorney malpractice insurance exclusively to the Illinois legal community. Our strength, commitment and dedication is recognized by the endorsement of the Illinois State Bar Association and our "A Excellent" rating by AM Best.

Law Offices of Anne Schmidt

As an ERISA attorney with an LLM in Employee Benefits, Anne Prenner Schmidt uses her acute business acumen to guide individuals through the complex division of retirement plans, executive compensation and employer sponsored benefits during dissolution proceedings. Anne understands the importance of employee benefits in association with divorce and helps clients navigate the multifaceted issues involved. Anne works with clients to design and implement a strategy that best fits their needs. She is a skilled mediator and uses alternative dispute resolution competences in order to protect client’s assets subject to division orders (DROs) incident to Divorce.

Lawyers’ Assistance Program

Lawyers’ Assistance Program is a not-for-profit organization that helps Illinois judges, lawyers, law students, and their families concerned about alcohol use, drug dependency, or stress related issues like anxiety, burnout, depression, and many others. Our services include Expert Mental Health and Substance Use Assessments, Referrals to Specialized Treatment, Individual Consultations, Ongoing Support Groups for Men, Women, and Law Students, Interventions, Wellbeing Techniques.

Lexitas

Legal & corporate support services you can trust.  For legal, insurance, and corporate leaders responsible for vital outcomes, Lexitas delivers highly responsive professional services paired with powerful technology to help move your practice, and your business, forward. 

Mako Networks

Mako Networks develops technology to deliver secure, PCI-certified networks to distributed enterprises, such as gas stations, convenience stores, retail chains, quick serve restaurants, health clinics and more. The All-in-One Mako System provides effortless nonstop secure networking using proprietary cloud-managed plug-and-play devices that offer speed to deployment and instant scale with no onsite IT required. The Mako System also supports a range of in-demand services, such as SASE, SD-WAN, Cellular Failover, Next-Gen Firewall, Cloud VPN, Wi-Fi and Voice services. For more information, visit makonetworks.com.

MDD Forensic Accountants

MDD is a leading forensic accounting firm. Our experts in Illinois regularly deliver expert, consulting and fact witness testimony in courts, arbitrations and mediations both locally and around the world.

M. E. Legal Nurse Consulting

M.E. Legal Nurse Consulting works in tandem with lawyers on medical malpractice cases to help you solidify your case.  Merit reviews, preparing chronologies, or more often, serving as a testifying expert, are just a few of the services I offer. With over a decade of clinical experience and multiple certifications within my specialty, I can ensure you no stone is unturned as we prepare your case for litigation. OB/L&D is one of the most litigious areas of medical malpractice today. A knowledgeable, strong expert on your team can make the difference in the outcome of your case.

Midwest Special Needs Trust

Midwest Special Needs Trust was created by statute (RSMo 402.199 – 402.208) in 1989 for the primary purpose of administering special needs trusts as a financial tool for persons with disabilities protecting important public benefits such as Medicaid and SSI. As authorized and specified by statute, MSNT was incorporated as a non-profit and received IRS 501(c)(3) charitable designation.  Trusts are administered for individuals with disabilities who reside in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.

Probate Cash

ProbateCash provides non-recourse advances to beneficiaries of an estate or trust who are waiting on their inheritances that are tied up in Probate. Most advances are paid within 1-2 business days.  Beneficiaries use advances to prepare the estate home for sale, to pay attorney fees and costs or simply for life necessities while waiting for the estate assets to be distributed.

ISBA Rural Practice Fellowship Program

As the only general statewide general bar association in Illinois, the ISBA is working to address the problem of the shortage of attorneys in rural areas of Illinois. The ISBA’s Rural Practice Fellowship Program is designed to connect rural and small town law firms looking for law clerks and associates with law students and newer attorneys interested in practicing law in rural parts of Illinois.

Smokeball

As the industry’s leading cloud-based legal practice management software, Smokeball empowers you to run your firm specific to your area of law.  From first client conversation to case closed, Smokeball’s platform gives you the resources you need to succeed, no matter how you bill or where you work.

Town and Country Crossing Orthopedics

Dr. Brett Taylor is an orthopedic spine surgeon certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery.  He has over 20 years of specialized experience in workers compensation, MVAs, and personal injury cases.  Since founding Town & Country Crossing Orthopedics in 2014, we have provided evidence-based spine care, emphasizing personalized treatment plans tailored to each patient’s needs.

WealthCounsel

WealthCounsel has been helping estate planning and elder law attorneys practice efficiently and confidently for over twenty-five years. As a company created and run by attorneys, for attorneys, we intimately understand the unique challenges that many legal practitioners face. From creating intelligent documents to staying on top of changing laws, increasing your skill set, and growing your law practice, WealthCounsel provides world-class resources for all of your professional needs.

Young and Associates Legal Nurse Consultants

Young and Associates is a consulting firm comprised of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. A legal nurse consultant is a registered nurse who uses existing expertise as a healthcare professional plus specialized legal nurse consultant training to consult on medical-related cases. While the attorney is the expert on legal issues, the legal nurse consultant is the expert on nursing, the healthcare system and its inner workings.