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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

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Partners

  

 

Jenny O. Blake

 Ms. Blake is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
                                                                                              

 

 

Mike A. Code

 Mr. Code participates in the Chicago Hospital Risk Pooling   Program (CHRPP) of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, a professional liability (malpractice) program, pooling hospitals’ resources in order to protect their assets,   reduce liability and premium costs, and implement effective  risk management programs. 

 

                                                                                              

Pamela L. Gellen

 Ms. Gellen is one of the first members of the Federal Trial Bar and is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and the Illinois Association of Defense Council. She is also a member of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys and of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Ms. Gellen has done pro bono work for the ACLU.
 
                                                                                              

 

Mary L. Golden

Ms. Golden is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of Luna Negra Dance Theater from 2004 through 2007.

 
                                                                                              

Gerald Haberkorn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Haberkorn was selected as a Federal Trial Bar Instructor for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and appointed to their prestigious Local Rules Committee. He has also been appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to serve on the Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee. Mr. Haberkorn is a member of the Appellate Lawyers’ Association, having served on the Editorial Board of the Appellate Law Review, and is a member of the Federal Bar Association. He has taught Agency and Partnership Law at The John Marshall Law School, co-chaired the Federal Bar Training Course of the Chicago Bar Association, and served on the Executive Civil Practice Subcommittee and as Vice Chair of the CBA Judiciary Committee.


Mr. Haberkorn serves on the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Chamber's Middle Market Forum Advisory Subcommittee. Unanimously elected to the LaGrange Little League Board of Directors in 2007, Mr. Haberkorn was also elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the West Suburban Baseball League. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Chapter of Girl Scouts of America and on their Executive Committee (1998-2003).

 

                                                                                              

 

Joan M. Kubalanza

Ms. Kubalanza has served on the Illinois Supreme Court committee that drafts jury instructions used in civil matters throughout Illinois and is actively involved in the legal community, most recently teaching legal writing and appellate advocacy at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Through a program sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago she was appointed 'Principal for a Day' of an inner city school. She has tutored high school students and represented pro bono clients. Ms. Kubalanza served previously on the Board of Directors of Literacy Chicago. She has been a member of the Maria High School Board of Directors for ten years, its chairperson for 3 of those years and is currently President of the Maria High School Alumnae Association.

 
                                                                                              

Brian T. Levin

 

 Mr. Levin is a member of the Chicago Bar Association.
 
                                                                                              

Jennifer A. Lowis

 

 Ms. Lowis is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association,  the California Bar Association and the Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys. She was an adjunct professor of law at Chicago Kent College of Law for many years where she taught legal writing and medical malpractice.
                                                                                              

Vito M. Masciopinto

 

 Mr. Masciopinto is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
                                                                                              

Marty W. McManaman

 

 Mr. McManaman is an active member of the Chicago Bar  Association and has served as an instructor for Loyola Law School’s Comparative Trial Advocacy Program in London, England. Mr. McManaman also serves on several committees at local schools and coaches youth sports teams.
                                                                                              

Robert H. Smeltzer

 

 Mr. Smeltzer is a Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola University School of Law, a member of the ABA Section of Labor & Employment, Litigation and Intellectual Property Sections.
                                                                                              

Mark J. Smith

 

 Mr. Smith is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel. He also serves on the Board of Directors of River Forest Youth Soccer Organization, a not-for-profit group which coordinates two annual community soccer leagues.
                                                                                              

Robert H. Smith

 

 Mr. Smith is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Hospital Risk Pooling Program of Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council. He served as a member of the Plainfield School District Board of Education for eight years, four of these years as President. He is currently the District Hearing officer for the School District Board.
 

 

                                                                                              

Scott R. Wolfe

 

 Mr. Wolfe donates his time to a variety of natural resources and environmental matters in the Great Lakes area including serving on the boards of the Illinois Conservation Congress, the Waukegan Harbor Citizens' Advisory Group and multiple Great Lakes sportfishing organizations.
 
                                                                                              
 

 

Associates

 

  

Lee A. Berger

 

 Ms. Berger is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Bar Association, California State Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Women’s Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association. She volunteers her time to Marah’s Kitchen, a Chicago area women’s shelter.
 
                                                                                              

Kevin Clancy

 

 Mr. Clancy served on the Board of Directors of Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, Inc. from 2004 through 2007.
                                                                                             

Linda Conroy

 

Ms. Conroy is a member of the Chicago Bar Association.

 
                                                                                             

Megan DeZutti

 

 Ms. DeZutti is a member of the American Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association. She also participates in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer marathon, which raises funds for cancer research and helps offset the cost of mammograms and cancer treatment for the underinsured.
                                                                                              

Justin Doolittle

 

 Mr. Doolittle served as a volunteer arbitrator and judge for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Mini-Moot, sponsored by Loyola University Chicago, the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association (CIDRA) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in 2007. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association.
 
                                                                                              
 
Julia M. Encinas
 		 Ms. Encinas is a member of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois. She is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.
 
                                                                                              

Ethan Hayward

 

 Mr. Hayward is active in the Notre Dame Club of Chicago and serves on their Attorney Network Core Planning Committee and is involved with the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation.  He is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, and serves on the CBA’s Judicial Evaluation Committee.
 

 

                                                                                              

Jong-Won Hyun

 

 Ms. Hyun is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
                                                                                              

Lisa Kepler

 

 Ms. Kepler serves on the American Cancer Society Charity Runner Program Committee, raising money for the ACS by recruiting runners to solicit sponsorship donations for running in ACS (and other) events. She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association.
                                                                                              

Bryan C. Larsen

 

Mr. Larsen is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.

                                                                                              

Jamie A. Leavitt

 

 Ms. Leavitt is a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association, where she serves on the Judicial Committee for the 2008 election.  She also mentors law school students.
 
                                                                                              

Patrick R. Moran

 

 Mr. Moran is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. He is also one of the firm’s delegates to the British American Business Council. Each year, he serves as a mock trial judge for the trial advocacy program at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
                                                                                              

Jamie L. Riccardi

 

 Ms. Riccardi is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
                                                                                              

Mehreen S. Sherwani

 

 Ms. Sherwani volunteers at Marah’s Kitchen, a Chicago area women’s shelter.  She is an active member of the Appellate Lawyers Association and interviews judicial candidates on behalf of the Alliance of Bar Associations.  She is also one on the firm’s delegates to the British American Business Council.