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CBF Legal Aid Academy Partners with Kirkland & Ellis for Expert Deposition & Trial Skills Training

CBF Legal Aid Academy Partners with Kirkland & Ellis for Expert Deposition & Trial Skills Training

Jul 22, 2015 |

This summer, 40 legal aid attorneys and members of the CBF Justice Entrepreneurs Project participated in a three-day expert deposition and trial skills training program sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis LLP through the CBF Legal Aid Academy.  This is the second year in a row that Kirkland has partnered with the CBF Legal Aid Academy to provide free, high-quality training to attorneys in the legal aid community.

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CBF Awards More Than $4 Million in Grants in FY 15

CBF Awards More Than $4 Million in Grants in FY 15

Jun 25, 2015 |

With the record-breaking Investing in Justice Campaign as the principal engine, the CBF was able to award a total of more than $4 million in grants in its FY 2015. Your generous support of the Campaign, along with the CBF’s many other foundation, government and individual partners, makes it possible for the CBF grants program to invest in the entire pro bono and legal aid system and make an impact that no one individual or entity could acting alone.

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A financial safety net for Chicago’s legal safety nets

A financial safety net for Chicago’s legal safety nets

Jun 2, 2015 |

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
By Jamie Loo  |  Law Bulletin Staff Writer

Without a parent or guardian and no place to call home, a homeless teenager is faced with many challenges and in some cases can’t even enroll in school.

Fortunately for those teens, there are organizations such as the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless’ Law Project to advocate for their right to enroll in school and access other benefits.

The groups providing support need their own financial support to stay open and keep serving the community and for some, funding from The Chicago Bar Foundation has served as a lifeline.

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A financial safety net for Chicago’s legal safety nets

A financial safety net for Chicago’s legal safety nets

Jun 2, 2015 |

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
By Jamie Loo  |  Law Bulletin Staff Writer

Without a parent or guardian and no place to call home, a homeless teenager is faced with many challenges and in some cases can’t even enroll in school.

Fortunately for those teens, there are organizations such as the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless’ Law Project to advocate for their right to enroll in school and access other benefits.

The groups providing support need their own financial support to stay open and keep serving the community and for some, funding from The Chicago Bar Foundation has served as a lifeline.

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Morsch Award Will Continue to Recognize Extraordinary Public Interest Attorneys

Morsch Award Will Continue to Recognize Extraordinary Public Interest Attorneys

May 27, 2015 |

Chicago’s legal aid community received some great news when Tom Morsch and his family recently committed to continue their generous endowment of the prestigious Thomas H. Morsch Public Service Award for an additional five years.

Tom deservedly has received a lot of recognition over the years for his tireless pro bono efforts and exemplary leadership in the legal community on access to justice issues. As a longtime partner at Sidley Austin and pro bono leader within the firm, Tom was one of the earliest advocates for getting private law firms to commit to pro bono service. Yet Tom always felt that the private bar received a disproportionate amount of recognition for their pro bono contributions in comparison to the lawyers who had dedicated their careers to public interest law at great financial sacrifice.

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Meet Catherine Sanders Reach, CBA Director of Law Practice Management & Technology

Meet Catherine Sanders Reach, CBA Director of Law Practice Management & Technology

May 20, 2015 |

Catherine Sanders Reach wants attorneys to know that no matter how proficient they are with today’s technology, there is always more to learn. Technology makes our work easier, more efficient, more productive and, often, more fun.

Director of Law Practice Management & Technology for the Chicago Bar Association, Catherine’s words of wisdom come from experience. Her first job out of the University of Alabama with her master’s of library and information studies in hand, was as a law firm librarian. The late €˜90’s were a heady time for her profession as information moved from print to digital…

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