For What It's Worth

The calendar says that, this year, Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian penitential season of Lent, begins on February 22, the same d...

The Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois will hold its 7th Annual Judicial Reception on Wednesday, February 15, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m...

The DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies and the Decalogue Society are co-sponsoring an online CL...

The Advocates Society , the association of Polish-American attorneys, is holding its annual Installation and Award of Merit Dinner on Thur...

The Chicago Bar Association is soliciting nominations for available Officer and Board of Manager positions. If your CBA dues are paid up,...

The Illinois Supreme Court today appointed Naperville attorney Jennifer L. Barron to an at-large vacancy on the Circuit Court of DuPage Cou...

I heard about this story at yesterday's Appellate Lawyers Association meeting. With the permission of the author and the permission of ...

Anyone who's lived in Chicago for more than a few years knows that some members of Chicago's City Council will likely be in need of ...

An update to this January 9 post : The six organizations jointly sponsoring the February 5 "Green Book" program -- the Black W...

An email from the District Court that may be of interest to some FWIW readers: The CCC Learning Center is now enrolling new students at t...

A year ago, here on FWIW, I was wondering about P.A. 102-0693's apparent elimination of 55 countywide judicial slots in Cook County --...

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will open an exhibit on February 2 entitled " The Negro Motorist Green Book ....

The Women's Bar Association of Illinois , the Asian American Bar Association , the Korean American Bar Association , and the Chinese A...

The Haitian American Lawyers Association will host a welcome reception for new Loyola Law Dean Michèle Alexandre on Friday, January 20, ...

I have to do another post about an upcoming event at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center , and I will, of course, but thi...

For many years Clarence Darrow was comfortably ensconced as the second-most famous lawyer to come out of the State of Illinois. Then Bara...

The Asian American Bar Association will hold its 35th Annual Installation Gala on Wednesday, February 1, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the U...

The Chicago Bar Association will host a CLE event for Tuesday, January 17, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., featuring Illinois Appellate Court Just...

The forecast for the next day or so keeps changing but, at its worst, the forthcoming winter storm will not equal, much less eclipse, the Bl...

I am certain that a great many FWIW readers would agree with the proposition that we here in the Great State of Illinois are uncommonly obse...

I'll bet you never heard it put that way. I certainly never did. But a recent ABA Journal article by Debra Cassens Weiss provides th...

Illinois Appellate Court Justice Maureen E. Connors has announced her retirement, and the Illinois Supreme Court has wasted no time in filli...

Fred Korematsu in 1998 The Chicago Bar Association D.I.C.E Committee, the Young Lawyers Section of the CBA, and the Japanese American Bar As...

Sure, Schroeder might say that a Beethoven-only program would more than suffice. But the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and ...

The South Asian Bar Association of Chicago will have its Holiday Party this coming Monday, December 12, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at City S...

The Cook County Bar Association will hold its Winter Ball & Holiday Toy Drive on Thursday, December 15, from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m., at t...

A holiday party sponsored by the Asian American Bar Association Chicago and the AABA Chicago Law Foundation will take place this Thursday...

I just know this will be triggering to some small percentage of FWIW readers, but it is a fact and I refuse to shrink from my responsibilit...

The HLAI (and HLAI Charities) Holiday Party is set for this Friday, December 2, from 5:30 to 7:30p.m., in the Cava Room , above Moe'...

I wouldn't wish a Blue Christmas on anyone... but this is America, doggone it, and, if that's what he wants to do, the Speaker is ...

And Judge Lyle will assume Justice Cunningham's case load when she arrives (Justice Joy V. Cunningham, you will recall, having been appo...