Fall Benefit

The 2026 Fall Benefit will be held on Saturday, November 21, from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. at the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry. Bring your family and friends for a fun and casual evening celebrating the Chicago legal community and supporting the Chicago Bar Foundation. Enjoy delicious comfort food, an open bar, complimentary parking, an exciting silent auction, and access to the Museum’s extraordinary exhibits, including everyone’s holiday favorite,  Christmas Around the World, the new Powering the Future exhibit, and this year’s special exhibit, Anne Frank: The Exhibition.

Stay tuned for more details and tickets for this year’s event!

2025 Co-Chairs

Rob Cimo

Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Shawn Ronda

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Thank you so much for inviting me and my family to the CBF Fall Benefit. We had not been able to attend since 2016, and we were quickly reminded that it is one of our favorite events. It must be a huge undertaking for the CBF to plan, and you all did a great job.” – Colleen Boraca

Thank you to our sponsors!

Benefactor

Accenture
Berkeley Research Group, LLC
Clifford Law Offices
Corboy & Demetrio
Eimer Stahl LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kaveny Sarmas
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Law Bulletin Media
LexisNexis
McDermott Will & Schulte
Ropes & Gray LLP
Sheppard
Sidley Austin LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Stout
Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC
United Airlines, Inc.
Zurich North America

Patron

Baker McKenzie
Barack Ferrazzano 
Builders Vision
Cooley LLP
Dentons US LLP
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Goldberg Kohn Foundation
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jones Day
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
McDonald’s Corporation
McGuire Law, P.C.
Passen Powell Jenkins
Perkins Coie LLP
Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.
Winston Taylor
Zayed Law Offices

Partner

Aon
Arboretum Wealth & Trust Management
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
CBA Insurance Agency
CME Group
Crowell & Moring LLP
Discover Financial Services
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Fox Rothschild LLP
GrowthPlay
Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen P.C.
K&L Gates LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Kralovec Conboy
Lathrop GPM LLP
LegalServer
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC
Mayer Brown LLP
McGuireWoods LLP

 

Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company
Mondelēz International
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Much Shelist, P.C.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Peoples Gas
Peck Ritchey, LLC
Pincus Professional Education
Polsinelli
The Prinz Law Firm, P.C.
Quarles & Brady LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
Scharf Banks Marmor LLC
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sperling Kenny Nachwalter
Steptoe LLP
Valentine Austriaco & Bueschel, P.C.
Verity Group
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Wintrust Bank

2025 Fall Benefit

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