Category: 2019 Issues
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – May 2019
AALL Headquarters, 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 (enter on Clark St.) May 7, 2019 9:00 a.m. Board Members Present: Joe Mitzenmacher, Jessie LeMar, Clare Willis, Julie Swanson, and Annie Mentkowski Board Members Absent: Scott Vanderlin and Jesse Bowman Significant Actions: The Board approved the strategic plan submitted by Strategic Planning Chair Jean Wenger. Guests:…
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Chapman & Cutler wins In-House Publication Award
The winner of this year’s award for outstanding in-house publication is the Chapman & Cutler Research Services team. They used a graphic of a book flipping open into a computer that was created by the firm’s marketing department and adapted it to make promotional logos for their events and newsletters. They made attractive, professional-looking…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – June 2019
AALL Headquarters 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 (enter on Clark St.) June 11, 2019 9:00 a.m. Board Members Present: Jessie LeMar, Lindsey Carpino, Joe Mitzenmacher, Julie Swanson, Jessie Bowman, Megan Butman, and Philip Johnson. Board Members Absent: None Significant Actions: The board voted to adopt NeonCRM as the platform to manage the website, directory,…
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Another Successful AALL Lobby Day and Rewarding CALL Participation – July 12, 2019
“…[A] government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Whenever I think I’m quite impossibly too busy to add another conference or professional development item to my “to do” task list, I am pleasantly reminded of how rewarding it is to…
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May 2019 Business Meeting with Marlon Lutifiyya
On May 9, 2019, CALL hosted our Business Meeting at Petterino’s with Marlon Lutifiyya, Director of Talent and Diversity at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, who spoke about diversity and inclusion in the legal community. Sponsors Alan Fanger of Empower Legal and John Wiora of ktMINE, both sponsored this meeting and shared information about the unique…
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Margaret Schilt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Chicago Association of Law Libraries honors Margaret Schilt with the 2019 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award. Margaret Schilt is retiring this June after 19 years as a librarian at the D’ Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago. The Lifetime Achievement Award is a fitting tribute to her career of active…
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September 2019 Business Meeting with Jayne Reardon
We held our September 2019 business meeting at Wildfire with Jayne Reardon, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Ms. Reardon shared concerns about changes in the legal profession, both for lawyers and access to legal services. She also discussed proposed rule updates for professional conduct around fee sharing and finding clients.
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President’s Letter
Hello CALL members! It seems like we were just at the May Business Meeting, but we blinked and here we are in September already! For CALL and the legal community, September is always a period of new starts — new students, new attorneys, new committees, and me, the new President of CALL! As we start…
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Julie Pabarja Receives Agnes and Harvey Reid Award
The Chicago Association of Law Libraries honors Julie Pabarja with the 2019 Agnes and Harvey Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship. This year, CALL gives our award for outstanding contribution to law librarianship to Julie Pabarja. We are recognizing her dedication and the passion she exudes for the profession, as well as the…
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