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West Illinois Case Updates
West Illinois Case Updates
Free Illinois Case Updates and Legislation is now available at www.chicagobar.org courtesy of West, a Thomson business.
Westlaw Content Now Available to Members
Members can now access complimentary Westlaw legal information at Association Headquarters. The special CBA Thomson West legal information package includes the KeyCite Citation Research Service. For more information, call the CBA Legal Bookstore at 312-554-2130.
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CBA Membership is Now more Valuable than Ever - Save on CLE
CBA Membership is Now more Valuable than Ever - Save on CLE!
Save on minimum continuing legal education costs with The Chicago Bar Association's unlimited CLE plan -- the CLEAdvantage. At only $125 a year, the CLEAdvantage allows members to save time and money in meeting the Illinois Supreme Court's new MCLE requirements. Visit www.chicagobar.org for more information and to signup online or call 312-554-2056. Members also earn free MCLE credit for committee meeting attendance, have access to a free online MCLE credit tracker at www.chicagobar.org and will receive a complimentary annual MCLE credit report with their dues statement.
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CBA Calendar of Events
8 O’Clock Call with Judges – September 7
Casino Legale Fundraiser – September 7
YLS Meet the Committees Night – September 18
Justice Stevens Award Luncheon – October 4
For more information on any event, visit http://www.chicagobar.org.
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| Continuing Legal Education |
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Seminar Schedule
- DUI and Alternative Testing
– September 20
Effective Use of Language at Trial – September 25
Women at Risk: Retirement Issues – September 27
Largest False Claims Jury Award – September 27
Click here to register, obtain full program descriptions, or a complete CLE schedule.
Click here to see a list of online CBA seminars.
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| Bar Committee Announcements |
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CBA Committee Meetings
- Federal Taxation – June 7
Charitable Planning Techniques
Trust Law – June 11
Migrating Clients & How to Advise Them
Labor & Employment Law – June 13
Year End Wrap Up
Click Here for a full committee meeting list.
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ABA Career Publications Now Available
ABA Career Publications Now Available
*Direct Examination…A Workbook for Lawyer Career Satisfaction ($29.95)
*Objection Overload…Overcoming Obstacles in the Lawyer Job Search ($24.95)
*Ask the Career Counselors…Answers for Lawyers on Their Lives and Life’s Work ($29.95)
To order your copy today, call the CBA Legal Bookstore at 312-554-2130. To view more titles or order online click here.
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- FRY, THOMAS v. EXELON CORP CASH [07/02]
ERISA
In a dispute involving pension benefits, district court judgment is affirmed where under ERISA an age is the normal retirement age because the pension plan's text makes it so, and thus the statutory language allows employers to vary by contract aspects of pension plans and specify a normal retirement age that may differ from typical retirement patterns. - GLASER, CAROL A. v. WOOD CARE [07/02]
Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act, district court judgment dismissing plaintiff's complaint for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction is affirmed where the district court correctly concluded that the threshold jurisdictional bar of the Act against lawsuits based upon publicly disclosed allegations applied to the suit, as the allegations in the complaint about defendant's billing practices were in fact based on publicly disclosed information and plaintiff failed to show she was an original source of the information used to support the allegations. - HASSAN, AHMED v. MUKASEY, MICHAEL [07/02]
Immigration Law
Petition for review of an order denying asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied where: 1) the agency's adverse credibility determination, based on material inconsistencies between plaintiff's asylum application and hearing testimony, is supported by substantial evidence; and 2) substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that plaintiff failed to show failed to show past political persecution, and failed to show a well-founded fear of future persecution.
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