trans-Atlantic airfare on SAS Scandinavian Airlines, accommodations in first-class hotels with private baths, guided sightseeing via deluxe motorcoach and fjord cruiser, nine breakfasts and three dinners.
The itinerary calls for two nights in Oslo, one night in Lillehammer, two nights in Stockholm, one night on the ferry to Helsinki, one night in Helsinki and two nights in St. Petersburg.
London, England
Departures for the two travel programs in London and surroundings are scheduled from St. Louis on Aug. 4, 2000, with return flight Aug. 12, and from Chicago on Aug. 11, with return Aug. 19. Global Holidays is coordinating the tour. Call (800) 842-9023 for complete details.
Highlights include round-trip flights on American Trans Air, seven nights in first class hotels, daily continental breakfasts, ground transfers and escorts. The price is $1,149 per person, double occupancy.
Optional escorted excursions during the tour include West End and the City of London, Canterbury and Leeds Castle, a pub crawl, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford, Paris by Eurostar, Bath and Stonehenge, Greenwich, a London dinner and theatre, Windsor Castle and Runnymede, and a medieval banquet.
Southern France
Two Chicago departures for the travel program in the south of France are scheduled Sept. 1, 2000, with return flight Sept. 9, and Sept. 15, with return Sept. 23. Departure from St. Louis is Sept. 29, with return Oct. 7.
Global Holidays is coordinating the tour. Call (800) 842-9023 for complete details. The price is $1,199 per person, double occupancy.
The three tours of Provence and the French Riviera feature round-trip flights to Nice on American Trans Air, seven nights in first class hotels, daily buffet breakfasts, ground transfers and escorts.
Optional excursions in Provence include Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles and Cassis; Avignon, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Les Baux-de-Provence and St. Remy-de-Provence; and Arles, Les Saintes. Maries/Sauvage riverboat cruise and The Carmargue.
Options on the French Riviera are Monaco and Monte Carlo; Nice, St. Paul de Vence and Grasse; Cannes by night, and Monte Carlo by night.
Vietnam, Thailand
An ISBA contingent will leave Chicago Thursday, Nov. 8, for a 10-day tour of Vietnam and Thailand that will include visits to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Angkor Wat and Bangkok before returning Sunday, Nov. 18, to Chicago.
Complete details and prices will be available soon from Carrousel Travel. Call (800) 800-6508 to be placed on a mailing list for brochures.
Mediterranean Cruise
A Windstar Mediterranean cruise is scheduled in May 2001, departing May 12 from Chicago to Lisbon, Portugal, and embarking May 13 through the Straits of Gibraltar to Barcelona for a return on May 21. A pre-cruise Lisbon tour option is offered from May 10 to 12, and an optional extension will take place to Sicily from May 22 to 27.
Complete details and prices will be available soon from Carrousel Travel. Call (800) 800-6508 to be placed on a mailing list for brochures.
Bates Meckler Bulgar & Tilson, Chicago, has added J. Robert Hall, S. William Grimes, Karen M. Dixon, Adam H. Fleischer, Eric E. Newman and Jason R. Schulze as associates. Hall, a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, comes from Stellato & Schwartz, Chicago; Grimes, a graduate of DePaul University College of Law, and Fleischer, a cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois, come from Blatt Hammesfahr & Eaton; Dixon, a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, comes from Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess; Newman, a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law, comes from Tenney & Bently; Schulze, a graduate of DePaul University College of Law, comes from Daniel G. Suber & Associates.
Blatt, Hammesfahr & Eaton, Chicago, has moved its London office to Lloyd's at One Lime Street; telephone (0207) 327-8000.
Katy C. Fain, Erin E. Wisner and John F. Watson have been named associates at Craig & Craig. Fain, a Southern Illinois University School of Law graduate, is in the firm's Mt. Vernon office. Wisner, an SIU law graduate, and Watson, a graduate of The John Marshall Law School, are in the Mattoon office. Watson was an assistant Coles County state's attorney and was with the State's Attorney Appellate Prosecutor's Office in Springfield.
Duane, Morris & Heckscher, headquartered in Philadelphia, has opened an office on the 34th floor of the AT&T Corporate Center, 227 W. Monroe Street, Chicago 60606. The office is comprised of 11 former partners in Holleb & Coff: Eric M. Fogel (partner in charge), Lawrence I. Davidson, Cheryl Blackwell Bryson, Paul A. Gilman, Howard M. Hoffmann, Brian P. Kerwin, Daniel Kohn, Kenneth A. Latimer, Nicholas J. Lynn, Michael A. Reiter and Michael J. Silverman.
Jeffrey D. Greenspan, formerly of Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Cope & Bush, Chicago, has become a member of Fioretti & Des Jardins, Chicago. Tiffany A. Boye, formerly of the Office of State Appellate Defender, has joined the firm as an associate.
Jeffrey M. Cross has joined Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, as a partner. Previously a partner at Kelley, Drye & Warren, Chicago, Cross is a law graduate of Syracuse University.
Gordon & Glickson, Chicago, has added Benjamin D. Kern, Alexandra N. Wipert and Derek A. Roach as associates. Kern, a graduate of the Cornell University Law School who also has an M.B.A. degree and studied law in Paris, was with Winston & Strawn. Wipert graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law and studied international legal issues in Africa. Roach, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, was an intern for U.S. Robotics in Skokie.
Jacalyn Birnbaum has joined Greenburg & Hermann, Chicago, as a partner.
Patricia M. Sack has joined Harris, Kessler & Goldstein, Chicago. A graduate of the Loyola University of School of Law with a master of laws degree in taxation from DePaul University, she was with Levin & Funkhouser, Chicago.
Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, has added five partners: Lisa M. Burman, who has a juris doctorate and a master of laws in taxation from the Chicago-Kent College of Law; Julie A. Harms, a Tulane University law graduate; Mary J. Hess, a graduate of the DePaul University College of Law; Charles A. Pierce, a magna cum laude graduate of the Southern Illinois University School of Law, in the firm's Belleville office; Gregory T. Snyder, a DePaul law graduate, in the Crystal Lake office.
Katten Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, elected eight lawyers to capital partnerships: Denise Burn, finance and reorganization, Northwestern University School of Law; Renee Friedman, public finance, Washington University Law School; Ted Helwig, litigation, Loyola University School of Law; Kenneth Jacobson, real estate, Stanford University Law School; Marla Kreindler, employee benefits, University of Michigan Law School; Antony McShane, intellectual property, DePaul University College of Law; Jeffrey Patt, corporate law, Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Fran R. Boris has joined Katten, Muchin & Zavis as staff attorney in the real estate department. She is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Law. Jonathan S. Feld joined the firm as a partner in complex civil and criminal defense. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a graduate of the Boston University School of Law, he was a partner in Brand, Lowell & Ryan, Washington, D.C.
Gabrielle M. Buckley, who recently relocated her immigration practice to Kelley, Drye & Warren, Chicago, has been appointed vice chair of the Immigration and Nationality Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice. She also is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School.
Melvin S. Adess has been appointed a partner in the federal tax practice of KPMG, Chicago. Formerly a partner in Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Adess is a cum laude graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. Errol G. Golub has joined KPMG as a partner. Previously a partner with Ernst & Young and Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, he graduated from the DePaul University College of Law and has a master's degree in taxation from the New York University School of Law.
Marks, Marks and Kaplan, Chicago, has added Marilynn J. Dye, Ralph T. Wutscher, Ivy D. Israel and Tracey L. Caveness as associates.
Former Chicago attorney Margo Lynn Hablutzel has been appointed trademark attorney in the Global Legal Resources Department of Mary Kay Inc.
Matuszewich, Kaminski, Zou & Avramovich, Chicago, has entered into a cooperation agreement with the Filippos Koteas Law Office in Pireaus, Greece.
John J. Foley of John J. Foley & Associates, Chicago, has joined with George D. Maurides & Associates to form Maurides & Foley at 2 N. LaSalle St., Suite 1900, Chicago 60602; telephone (312) 332-6500. Foley is past chair of the ISBA Insurance Law Section Council.
Rachel N. Lokken and Todd J. Schneider are new associates at McBride Baker & Coles, Chicago. Lokken, who received her degree from the University of Michigan Law School, was with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. Schneider, a graduate of the Marquette University Law School, was with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon.
Steven Stender has returned to Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Rubinstein, Chicago, as a partner. Formerly general counsel at Infinity Group, a national real estate investment company, he graduated with honors from the Chicago Kent College of Law.
Also named partners at Much, Shelist are Leslee M. Cohen, a graduate of the New York University School of Law, and Susan Mendelsohn, a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Marc S. Brenner, Ellen B. Friedler, Douglas J. Lubelchek, John S. Santa Lucia and Jonathan D. Wasserman have joined Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, as partners. They were with the in-house law firm of financier Sam Zell.
Randolph E. Ruff has joined Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Chicago, as a shareholder. A graduate of the Valparaiso University School of Law, he was a principal with DeHaan & Richter, Chicago.
Matthew D. Kuehl has joined Quarles & Brady, Chicago, as an associate in the litigation practice group. A graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, he previously worked at the U.S. attorney's office in Miami and the Homicide Department of the state's attorney's office in Fort Lauderdale.
Mary J. Berger, a graduate of The John Marshall Law School, has been promoted from senior attorney to assistant general counsel at Rayonier, a global supplier of timber, pulp and wood products in Fernandina Beach, Fla.
Sheila M. Murphy, retired presiding judge of Cook County's 6th Municipal District, is of counsel to Rothschild, Barry and Myers, Chicago. She serves on the ISBA Board of Governors.
Steven E. Erlich, Mark C. Furse, Ruth Pinkham Haring, William C. Hermann, James M. Phipps, John P. Starkweather and Kelly L. Stonebraker all formerly with Rosenberg & Liebentritt, Chicago have joined Rudnick & Wolfe, Chicago. Daniel Acosta and Janet A. Lindeman, also from Rosenberg & Liebentritt, join as associates.
Martin H. Redish has joined Rudmick & Wolfe as of counsel. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he is the Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Northwestern University School of Law.
Schopf & Weiss has relocated to 312 W. Randolph St., Suite 300, Chicago 60606; telephone (312) 701-9300.
Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson, which has offices in Chicago and Indianapolis, has open another in Washington, D.C. Daniel R. Barney and Laurie T. Baulig, former senior vice presidents of the American Trucking Association, are partners in the new office.
Steven J. Costello, formerly of O'Connor, Schiff & Meyers, Chicago, and Anne M. Riegle, previously with the Pennsylvania firm of Tucker, Arensberg & Swartz and with John J. Foley & Associates, Chicago, have joined Stellato & Schwartz, Chicago, as associates.
Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago, has named Suzanne J. Massel and Deanne E. Clarke as associates. Massel was with Merlo, Kanofksky & Brinkmeier, and Clark, was with Marks, Marks and Kaplan.
Women's Bar of Illinois
Illinois Lieutenant Governor Corinne G. Wood of Lake Forest 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 political action committee of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois. For reservations, call (312) 341-8530.
Winnebago County Bar
The Young Lawyers Division of the Winnebago County Bar Association plans hold an "At the Bar" social reception each month. The dates and locations are Tuesday, March 7, Irish Rose; Thursday, April 6, Tom's Tap; Thursday, May 4, Alvarez. They start at 5:30 p.m. Call Ron Fiet, (815) 963-4454, for details.
West Suburban Bar
The first monthly dinner meeting of the West Suburban Bar Association after the March 4 installation of Patrick Moran as president will be held Thursday, March 16, at D's Little Italy, LaGrange Park. Call (708) 366-1122.
State's Attorneys
Morgan County State's Attorney Charles Coburn has been elected president of the Illinois State's Attorneys Association. Montgomery County State's Attorney Kathryn Dobrinic is first vice president.
Phi Alpha Delta
The annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity will take place Thursday, March 16, at the Beef 'n' Brandy on State Street, Chicago. Call Treasurer James A. Erwin, (773) 525-0153, for reservations.
New alumni chapter officers include Rosemary G. Milew, justice; Edward B. Meyer Jr., first vice justice; Shari L. Erwin, second vice justice; Benjamin P. Hyink, clerk, and Gene K. Edlin, advocate.
Northwest Suburban Bar
Cook County Judge Francis Barth, who was appointed recently to the Illinois Appellate Court, will be guest speaker for a dinner meeting of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association on Wednesday, March 15, at The Wellington of Arlington Heights. New Presiding Judge Nancy Sidote Salyers of the 2nd Municipal District will be introduced. Call (847) 290-8071.
NWSBA members donated toys, food and money during a holiday charity drive for Kidz Café in Palatine and the Park Ridge Youth Campus.