A new set of Alliance retention grids was released this morning

The retention evaluations of the Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago are now complete -- and readers will notice that the BWLA, like the Democratic Party and the Judicial Accountability PAC, has decided not to recommend retention for Judge Michael P. Toomin.

Only one retention evaluation remainst to be released by the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago. Since the prior update, the AABA has opted to recommend retention for Judge Toomin. While the AABA has recommended that Judge Jackie Marie Portman-Brown be retained, it has joined the BWLA in opposing the retention of Judge Daniel J. Kubasiak. After the AABA's favorable rating, Portman-Brown has received five positive ratings from Alliance groups and seven negative ratings from Alliance bar groups. Portman-Brown has also been found qualified for retention by the Chicago Bar Association. Kubasiak is also rated qualified for retention by the CBA. He has also been recommended for retention by nine of the other 10 Alliance bar groups (the rating of the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois is still pending).

With no further preface, then, herewith the latest set of Alliance retention grids (click on any image to enlarge or clarify):

In addition to the BWLA, AABA, and PRBA, the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening is comprised of the Arab American Bar Association (AABAR) (the newest Alliance member), the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), the Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), the Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), the Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois (HBA), the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC), and the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.

The Alliance does not include the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), which maintains its own evaluation process. (Click here for a post on the CBA's retention evaluations.)