CALL Bulletin

Category: 2022 Issues

  • May Business Meeting – Kristen Sonday & Devshi Mehrotra

    May Business Meeting – Kristen Sonday & Devshi Mehrotra

    The May 12, 2022 meeting was attended by about 60 people via Zoom.  Incoming President Scott Vanderlin welcomed everyone as outgoing President Jamie Sommer was ill.  There were a couple of guests to celebrate Nancy Henry’s retirement.  Scott thanked Lexis for providing the door prizes.  Also thanks to Eugene Giudice for donating copies of his…

  • New Members of Executive Board – 2022-2023

    New Members of Executive Board – 2022-2023

    Thank you to the Nominations and Elections Committee for putting together the wonderful slate of candidates and for verifying the election results.  Additional thank you to all the candidates – we appreciate your willingness to serve CALL. Please join me in welcoming our newest CALL Board members:

  • CALL Bulletin Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

    The CALL Bulletin has published the four 2021-22 issues up to the writing of this report (Issues 260-263); the Summer 2022 issue will be published in August 2022.  The committee included Emily Barney (co-editor), Emily Byrne (co-editor), Matt Timko (co-editor), and Kelsey Shaw.

  • MLDC Recent Webinar on Adaptive Leadership

    MLDC Recent Webinar on Adaptive Leadership

    On April 7, The Mentorship & Leadership Development and the Continue Education Committees hosted a virtual panel discussion on adaptive leadership. Panelists included Eugene Giudice (Dentons US LLP). Joanne Kiley (HBR Consulting) and Mandy Lee (Chicago-Kent College of Law Library). Heidi Kuehl (NIU College of Law) moderated the panel.

  • CALL Bylaws Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

    The Bylaws Committee consisted of Chair Eric Parker, and members Simone Stone, Brandy Ellis, Clare Willis, and Lindsey Carpino.  The Committee had a quiet year in 2021-22, as no proposed changes to the chapter bylaws were considered.

  • MLDC New Member Breakfast

    MLDC New Member Breakfast

    On Thursday, February 17, the Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) hosted a remote breakfast for new CALL members. While the conversation included some very serious poll questions such as “Is a hotdog a sandwich?”, group discussion also dug into more career-focused topics.

  • CALL Community Service Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

    In 2021-2022, the Community Service Committee was chaired by Lisa Winkler.  The members of the committee were James Fortsas, Mary Kenny, Mike McMillan, and Nan Norton.  The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affected our in-person community service activities, but we successfully coordinated three volunteering opportunities this past year:

  • CALL Nominations and Elections Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

    The Nominations and Elections Committee met virtually in August to brainstorm ideas and potential candidates for nomination for the 2022-2023 CALL Executive Board: Director, Treasurer, and Vice-President/President-Elect. Recommendations were solicited over the CALL listserv and during the announcements portion of the September virtual business meeting and then discussed among the committee members during virtual meetings…

  • CALL Continuing Education Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

    The Continuing Education Committee had a very successful year. We sponsored or co-sponsored nine successful presentations with a tenth that unfortunately needed to be rescheduled for the fall. Due to COVID restrictions, all of these were webinars:

  • CALL Placement and Recruitment Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

    The 2021-2022 CALL Placement & Recruitment Committee (“committee”) was comprised of Co-Chairs Todd Ito and Julie Pabarja, Valerie Kropf, Sean Rebstock, and Diana Koppang. Carrie Port was the Board Liaison. The committee started the year by discussing the committee charge and the initiatives in the CALL Strategic Plan assigned to this committee to handle.  The…