Legalese. It is practically recognized as its own language and is the subject of many a joke. But what is not funny is that it is so ingrained in our profession and legal system that it too often...
As we honored seven outstanding lawyers and judges at this year’s CBA/CBF Pro Bono and Public Service Awards Luncheon in July and celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the event, we continued a recent...
It started eight years ago with the crazy idea that I would write a post about pro bono every day of Pro Bono Week in 2015. When I did that and realized a few people were actually reading these...
One of the silver linings of the pandemic was the heightened attention at all levels of government around the issue of evictions and how to better prevent them. There have been unprecedented...
One of the big issues the CBF has been working on this summer with many other partners is helping coordinate the legal response for the thousands of recent migrants who have been bused to Chicago...
In the almost eight years since the advent of Bobservations, the post that by far holds the record for an animated response was my first New Year’s Resolution for the Legal Profession at the end of...