2008 Annual Luncheon - Reserve
your tickets today!
Chicago Appleseed and the Council are pleased to announce the details of
the upcoming 2008 Annual Luncheon. Please join us on Tuesday, October 7 at
the Palmer House Hilton. The reception begins at 11:30am, with the lunch
and program at noon.
The keynote speaker is Paula Wolff,
Ph.D., Senior Executive at Chicago Metropolis 2020. The
Commitment to Justice Honorees are
Richard A. Devine,
CookCountyState's Attorney, and
Edwin A. Burnette, Cook
County Public Defender.
The 2008 Annual Luncheon serves as the 39th Annual Meeting for the Chicago
Council of Lawyers, and the 11th Annual Meeting for Chicago Appleseed Fund
for Justice. Tickets for the event are on sale now. For information
about purchasing tickets or sponsoring a table, contact Amanda Grant at
312-988-6599, or
agrant@chicagoappleseed.org. Download the pledge form
here.
Recent
Events
Forum on Police Accountability in
Chicago: Meaningful Change or Work in
Progress?
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12-1:30pm JohnMarshallLawSchool, room
200 315 S. Plymouth Court ,
Chicago
Speakers
Illana Rosenzweig, Chief Administrator of
Chicago Independent Police
Review Authority (CIPRA)
Peter Brust, Deputy Superintendent in charge of Chicago Police
Department's Bureau of Professional Standards
One hour of MCLE credit provided.
There is no charge but please RSVP by April 17th to 312-988-6565 (phone)
or ccl@chicagocouncil.org
On
April 3, 185 guests joined Chicago Appleseed and Appleseed to honor
Lowell Sachnoff, Schiff Hardin LLP, Ron Grzywinski and Mary Houghton for
their commitment and contributions to our community. Keynote speakers
Cornelia Grumman, Hon. Abner Mikva and a video message from Senator
Richard Durbin (D-IL) completed the evening. Co-chairs Natalia Delgado
(Huron Consulting Group), Rick Godfrey (Kirkland & Ellis LLP), Frederick
Sperling (Schiff Hardin LLP) and Mary Anderson (Goldberg Kohn) hosted a
beautiful event at the Intercontinental Hotel.
Special thanks to our event sponsors for supporting our work in
Chicago and throughout
Illinois.
Huron Consulting
Group, Inc.
Pritzker Family Foundation
Schiff Hardin LLP
PATRON
Abbott Laboratories
Allstate Insurance Company
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Goldberg Kohn
Jenner & Block LLP
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Michael J. Freed
Reed Smith LLP
Robinson Curley & Clayton PC
ShoreBank
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Vedder Price PC
Winston & Strawn LLP
CONTRIBUTOR
Barnes & Thornburg
LLP Bell,
Boyd & Lloyd LLP
Boulware Group
Sheldon Baskin
Marjorie and Charles Benton
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
DLA Piper
US LLP
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Krahl Construction
Littler Mendelson PC
McGuireWoods LLP
Michael Polsky
Alan and Dorothy Press
Robinwood Consulting, LLC
Sentinel Technologies, Inc.
Marc Seltzer
Jocelyn Stoller
Marvin & Lynn Tenenbaum
Thomson West U.S.
Equities Asset Management LLC—SearsTower
Walgreen Company
Robert & Marie Weissbourd
Cook County State’s Attorney Candidates Forum
Sponsored by Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, Chicago Council of
Lawyers and Chicago-Kent College of Law on January 24, 2008
View the clip from CLTV below
2007 Annual Luncheon
On October 2, 2007,
Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers hosted our Annual
Luncheon. The program marked the 38th Annual Meeting of the Council and
the 10th Annual Meeting of Chicago Appleseed. More than 330 persons
attended the event.
The keynote speaker was Thomas Sullivan, senior partner at Jenner &
Block LLP. Commitment to Justice Awards were presented to Mr. Sullivan,
as well as to Ada Skyles, Associate Director, Chapin Hall Center for
Children, University of Chicago; Thomas Geraghty, Professor, Bluhm Legal
Clinic, Northwestern University; and Diane Geraghty, Director, Civitas
ChildLaw Center, Loyola University.
We thank all of our guests and contributors. We especially thank our
Sponsors, which include:
Benefactor Level
Carrie K. Huff
Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd.
Jenner & Block LLP
Friend Level
The Boeing Company
Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg
Foley & Lardner LLP Michael
Kreloff
Law Offices of Chicago-Kent College of Law
Loyola University School of Law
Meites Mulder Mollica & Glink
Metroplex, Inc.
Miller Shakman & Beem LLP
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Reed Smith Sachnoff & Weaver
Schiff Hardin LLP
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Torshen Slobig Genden Dragutinovich & Axel, Ltd.
Walgreen Co.
Chicago
Appleseed: A Decade of Growth
Thanks to everyone
who helped make our “Decade of Growth” event a huge success! Our
event featured Attorney General Lisa Madigan as the keynote speaker, and
we honored Gloria Santona, Michael J. Freed and Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
LLP.
Special thanks to our
sponsors:
Underwriter Sponsors Huron Consulting
Group
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Benefactor Sponsors Illinois Tool Works,
Inc.
Winston & Strawn LLP
Patron Sponsors Abbott
Baker & McKenzie LLP
DLA Piper US
LLP
Exelon, Proud Parent of ComEd
Freed Kanner London
& Millen LLC
Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd.
Jenner & Block LLP
McDonald’s Corporation
Mid-Continent Capital LLC
Walgreen Co.
Contributor Sponsors Barnes & Thornburg
LLP Holland
+ Knight LLP
Littler Mendelson
Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein PC
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
October
17, 2006 Thanks to everyone
who made our 2006 Annual Luncheon a huge success!
On October 17, 2006, Chicago Appleseed
and the Chicago Council of Lawyers hosted their Annual Luncheon,
marking the 37th Annual Meeting of the Council and the ninth
Annual Meeting of Chicago Appleseed. The Keynote Speaker was Lynn
Sweet, D.C. Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. The Commitment
to Justice Award was presented to the Honorable Paul Biebel,
Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division, for his exemplary
accomplishments in improving the Cook County criminal justice system.
Nearly 300 Council members and Chicago
Appleseed supporters gathered for this momentous occasion held at the
Chicago Athletic Association. Make sure you’re included in the 2007
Annual Luncheon by contacting Amanda Grant at
agrant@chicagoappleseed.org. Thank you to all our guests, donors and
table sponsors for a fantastic event!
Sponsoring
Benefactor:
Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd.
Sponsoring Contributors:
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Grippo & Elden LLC
Holland + Knight LLP
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Miner Barnhill & Galland PC
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Sponsoring
Friends:
Robert T. Badesch, Badesch Abramovitch
The Boeing Company
Chicago Appleseed Board of Directors
Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Law Offices of Susan E. Cox, Ltd.
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP
Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
The Law Offices of Susan Fortino-Brown
Jenner & Block LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Michael Kreloff
Law Offices of Susan Fortino-Brown
Meites Mulder Mollica & Glink
Metroplex, Inc.
Miller Shakman & Beem LLP
Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Novack & Macey LLP
Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Torshen Slobig Genden Dragutinovich & Axel, Ltd.
February
23, 2006 Chicago
Appleseed Information Series:
Voter Education in Judicial Elections
In 2004,
Chicago Appleseed initiated the www.voteforjudges.org
campaign in an attempt to improve non-partisan voter education in judicial
elections. The Chicago Council of Lawyers has worked with the political
action committee, The Committee to Elect Qualified Judges for decades
in an effort to distribute sample judicial ballots to voters. As part
of the Chicago Appleseed Information Series, Chicago Appleseed Board
member Chuck Smith, Partner at Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom, is hosting
a session on voter education in judicial elections on Thursday, February
23 at 4:30 p.m. Friends and members of the Chicago Council of Lawyers
and Chicago Appleseed are cordially invited to attend and to offer your
ideas.
September
28, 2005 Annual
Fundraising Luncheon
On September
28, 2005, Chicago Appleseed once again be joined with the Chicago Council
of Lawyers to host our Annual Fundraising Luncheon. The program marked
the 36th Annual Meeting of the Council and the eighth Annual Meeting
of Chicago Appleseed.
We will
be unveiled our new Criminal Justice Project with keynote speakers Randolph
Stone and Steve Bogira. Each presented their unique perspective on the
criminal justice system.
Randolph
Stone is the former Public Defender for Cook County and is a clinical
professor and Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University
of Chicago. Steve Bogira is the award-winning reporter for the Chicago
Reader and the author of Courtroom 302, which examines one year in one
courtroom of America’s busiest felony courthouse.
A Commitment
to Justice Award was presented to Patricia Logue, senior counsel at
Lamda Legal, for her commitment to the protection of civil rights and
dedication to family law.