I'm excited to announce that for the Chicago Bar Association's 2024-25 year, I've been named co-chair for the Association's Solo & Small Firm Practice Committee. I'm partnering with Matt Kerbis as co-chair. Our co-vice chair continues to be John Risvold & we welcome new co-vice chair Amanda Carey. Our former co-chair John Ellis was recently [...]
Jarry the Airedale--she's my "pairalegal" A client recently asked me about accommodating a service dog at work. There were no immediate concerns about having the service dog present (E.g, employee safety, health, etc.). However, one issue that arose was whether to communicate to employees the presence of the dog, and that this is [...]
I continue to receive questions about pyramiding of overtime. Prior posts are here: 6/2/22, 8/31/20; 12/4/17; 1/10/17; 4/1/16; 12/1/16; 1/2/13. The latest question came in a few days ago. Names have been changed to protect anonymity of the poster & their company. Elwood Blues;eblues@gmail.com My name is Elwood Blues, and I work at a paper plant in Pontiac, IL. For [...]
The Decalogue Society of Lawyers is very excited and honored to host the Second Annual, “A Salute To Veterans in the Legal Profession,” on June 3 at 5:30 pm, at Solider Field! We have had great success in building a coalition of over 41 affinity bar associations as co-hosts of this wonderful event, which you [...]
