	President - Robert A. Clifford is principal partner of Clifford Law Offices, a personal injury law firm in Chicago concentrating in aviation, transportation, personal injury, medical negligence and product liability law. He has represented clients in every major commercial airline crash in the United States in the last two decades and has also represented clients in private or corporate jet and helicopter crashes around the globe. High profile cases have included his representation of the estate of Bob Collins, Chicago's popular morning disc jockey who was killed in a small plane collision, the Dick Ebersol family, who were involved in a chartered jet crash, the case of six-year-old Joshua Woods who was killed at Chicago's Midway Airport when a Southwest Airlines jet skidded into his family's car, the family of a victim in the Chalk seaplane crash off the coast of Miami in December, 2005, and several plaintiffs in case of the 2006 Comair crash in Lexington, Kentucky. Mr. Clifford also received national attention for winning a $30 million verdict in the case of violinist Rachel Barton against a commuter rail company. He obtained a $75 million settlement on behalf of some of those injured or killed when scaffolding collapsed off the John Hancock Building. And, he won a $15.8 million verdict on behalf of an 18-year-old teenager who was left permanently brain damaged after she was struck by a YMCA van in a south suburb of Chicago. His professional memberships include the International Society of Barristers, the Inner Circle of Advocates, and the American Law Institute, a group of 3,000 judges, lawyers and academics from around the world who are selected on the basis of professional achievement in the law. For the American Bar Association (ABA) he has served as Illinois State Delegate to the House of Delegates of ABA, Chair of the Strategic Communications Committee, Chair of the Section of Litigation and Chair of the Task Force on Aviation and the Law, for which he served in an advisory role to congressional, executive, state and local leaders on the legal ramifications in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack on America. A Past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and of the Chicago Inn of Court, he is also a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the National Judicial College. He is also a member of a select group of aviation consultants who advised the Rand Institute for Civil Justice, a California-based think tank, on the investigation process of the National Transportation Safety Board. Mr. Clifford also has been asked to sit on the Rand Institute's Board of Overseers. He was appointed a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Civility. Mr. Clifford endowed the first Chair on Tort Law and Social Policy to his alma mater, De Paul University College of Law. This gift provides for an annual symposium for academicians, lawyers and judges from across the country to speak on a timely topic dealing with the relationship between tort law, popular culture and societal needs. Mr. Clifford shares his knowledge as a frequent lecturer for various bar associations and legal groups throughout the country. He holds a JD from DePaul University College of Law.

	First Vice President - Aurora N. Abella Austriaco, Principal at Austriaco & Associates Ltd., concentrates in the areas of real estate litigation, construction litigation, mechanic's liens, mortgage foreclosure, mortgage fraud, title insurance claims and other special chancery remedy cases. Prior to forming her own firm, she was Of Counsel to Peck Bloom Austriaco & Koenig LLC. She also worked as Corporate Counsel and Managing Attorney of Indiana operations of Attorney's Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. She holds her BS and JD from De Paul University. A past Chair of the CBA Young Lawyers' Section, she also serves on the board of the Chicago Bar Foundation and as Vice-President of the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR). She is the first female and minority President of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers' Association (IRELA), a founding board member of the Filipino American Bar Association, past board member and current member of the Asian American Bar Association and the ISBA Real Estate Section Council. She also served on the Board of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Attorneys Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., a bar related title insurance company. She is the first female minority elected to the ATG board. Aurora is current Chair of the New Construction Committee of the ABA General Practice Section and serves as member of the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers Title Guaranty Fund. She was also re-appointed as ABA Section Officers Council Liaison to the ABA Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel. She was recently appointed Chicago Bar Association delegate to the ABA House of Delegates and appointed as Chair of the Tellers Committee for the House of Delegates.

	Second Vice President - J. Timothy Eaton is a partner at Shefsky & Froelich Ltd. He concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, appeals and arbitration. He is a past president of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Appellate Lawyers Association. He has served in the ABA House of Delegates and is currently president of the Lawyers Trust Fund, chair of the Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice, a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Bar Association and chair of the Programs Committee of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and is the author of over thirty articles on litigation, appellate law and arbitration. He is a co-author of the book entitled: Civil Appellate Practice: State and Federal (IICLE). He is a member of the CBA Commercial Litigation Committee, ADR Committee and past chair of the CLE Committee. He was a co-vice chair of the CBA Task Force on the Green Courts Initiative. He is a frequent moderator and lecturer in CBA CLE programs.

	Secretary - Patricia Brown Holmes is a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP where she co-chairs the firm's Diversity Committee. A trial attorney whose practice focuses on white-collar criminal investigations, she is a former federal, state and local prosecutor and state court judge. Her criminal and civil litigation experience includes handling matters involving financial and accounting fraud, mail and wire fraud, corporate whistle-blower allegations and hot-line calls, contract disputes and other complex commercial litigation. She has also lectured on and completed internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Judge Holmes also has extensive experience conducting internal investigations at public and private entities and has conducted many highly sensitive and confidential investigations involving high-level executives. She has represented special committees and boards of directors in a variety of internal investigations. During her career, she has often been tasked by government officials to assist in investigating sensitive matters. She was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to chair the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission; the investigation of the City of Chicago's fire commissioner for sexual harassment; the alleged cover up by the executive director of the Office of Compliance; and the 2010 investigation of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal as chair of the governor's Cemetery Oversight Task Force. That investigation led to new legislation regarding cemetery oversight and the funeral industry. She is also a member of Senator Dick Durbin's judicial commission to investigate backgrounds and select federal judges and the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois. She is a frequent commentator and widely published legal writer and an active member of several Bar Associations. She is an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, Loyola Institute for Paralegal Studies, and an instructor at the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute Criminal Trial Advocacy Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Her many awards include the Visionary Award from the Black Women Lawyers Association; the Illinois Judicial Council Distinguished Service Award; the National Bar Association's Judicial Council Special Chair Award; the University of Illinois Seaberry Award for Service to the Legal Community and the University's Outstanding Alumni Award for Public Service; a peer review award from Illinois Leading Lawyers Network; and the Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois/Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter. She has also been named by several publications and organizations to their lists of outstanding attorneys in the commercial litigation, white collar and criminal defense practices. In 2011, the National Diversity Council named her "One of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of Illinois." Judge Holmes earned her Bachelor's degree and her J. D. from the University of Illinois.

	Treasurer - Daniel Cotter, is a founding partner of Korey Cotter Heather & Richardson, LLC. Previously, he was Chair of the Corporate, Transactional and Regulatory Group at Lindemann LLC, Downers Grove. Other experience includes serving as vice president and general counsel at Argo Group U.S., Inc. and senior counsel with Unitrin Inc. A CPA, he has also worked as an accountant at the insurance giant, C N A. He is the Secretary of the John Marshall law School Alumni Association and serves on the Boards of Monmouth College, the Chicago Bar Foundation, and Kendall College. He is an adjunct professor at John Marshall School of Law. Mr. Cotter’s community service includes as Chair of the Edgebrook School District, a Cub Scout Den Leader, and fundraising annually for the CBA’s Lend A Hand-to-Youth program. He is a champion weight lifter in his spare time and often uses his competitive events to raise money for charitable causes, including Lend A-Hand-to-Youth. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Monmouth College, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, and earned his law degree from The John Marshall Law School, graduating first in his class. At John Marshall, he competed in the John Marshall/ABA National Criminal Defense Lawyers National Mock Trial Competition and was an Editor for the Law Review, while working full-time at CNA as an accountant. His awards include Monmouth’s Distinguished Young Alumnus Award (2001) and induction into the MClub (sports) Hall of Fame (2002).

CBA Board of Managers

	Immediate Past President - Terri L. Mascherin is a partner with Jenner & Block where she is a member of the Firm's Management Committee. Her diverse practice involves representing clients in trials, appeals and regulatory appeals in state and federal courts throughout the United States, as well as arbitrating domestic and international disputes. She has a very active pro bono practice that includes successfully challenging the death sentences of two men on Illinois' death row and defending challenges to clemency orders issued by former Illinois Governor George Ryan. From 2003-2006, Terri chaired the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project. In addition to currently serving as CBA President, her CBA involvement includes service as First Vice President, Second Vice President and Treasurer and chairing the Strategic Planning Committee from 2005-2006, serving on the Board of Managers, chairing the Young Lawyers Section Professional Responsibility Committee, and serving on the Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee. She has also served on the Judicial Evaluation Committee and is a member of the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women.

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	Alison C. Conlon is a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. She focuses her practice on litigating commercial disputes, toxic tort cases, professional malpractice issues and other matters for companies, municipalities and individuals. Ms. Conlon also uses alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, to assist her clients. Ms. Conlon's experience includes having represented manufacturers, real estate investors and advisors, law firms, insurance companies, and financial services providers. She has helped Fortune 500 companies to win commercial arbitration matters worth millions of dollars, and has defended large class action suits in multiple states brought against a Fortune 100 company. Ms. Conlon's environmental litigation experience includes defending corporations and municipalities in federal and state courts. Representative cases include litigation where more than 1,000 individual plaintiffs alleged personal injuries and property value diminution arising out of lead dust emissions from the operation of a smelter in Detroit, Michigan; a class action property damage lawsuit alleging the presence of TCE and PCE in a municipal water supply in Ohio; and work as liaison counsel defending multiple cases brought by hundreds of landfill neighbors alleging the presence of vinyl chloride in private drinking water wells and the risk of vapor intrusion. Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg Ms. Conlon was a partner at the Chicago firm, Wildman Harrold. She has also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Charles P. Kocoras in the Northern District of Illinois. At The Chicago Bar Association, Ms. Conlon is a co-chairperson of the Tort Litigation Committee. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association. She serves on the Northern District of Illinois Local Rules Committee, and is on the ISBA/CBA Joint Task Force on Limited Scope Representation. Ms. Conlon earned a B.A. cum laude in English from Yale University and an M.A. in English from Georgetown University. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Duke University Law School in 2000.

	James B. Durkin is a partner in the Chicago office of Arnstein & Lehr. He is a member of the Governmental & Municipal Affairs Practice Group. He has assisted public and private entities by conducting and coordinating internal investigations and problem solving through regulatory and legislative remedies. In addition, he counsels private and governmental entities on public finance issues. He is an AV-rated attorney. Mr. Durkin previously served as an Assistant Illinois Attorney General and as an Assistant Cook County States Attorney. In 2002, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate for the state of Illinois. He is currently the assistant minority leader in the Illinois House of Representatives serving the 82nd District. In December 2008, he served as the ranking Republican for the Illinois House of Representatives Impeachment Committee regarding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Mr. Durkin serves on the Board of Trustees of The John Marshall Law School. Since 1996, he has served on the Board of Advisors of Misericordia—Heart of Mercy Home. He has also served on the Board of Advisors of Giant Steps School for Autism since 2000. From 1992-1997, he was a trustee for Triton Community College and from 1994-1997 he was Vice Chairman. Since 2006, Mr. Durkin has served the 82nd District as a State Representative in the Illinois House of Representatives, and, from 1995-2003, he served the 44th District. He was the Illinois co-chair for Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 and 2008. He is also an executive committee member of the Illinois Republican Party (2009-present). He graduated from Illinois State University with a B.S. Criminal Justice in 1984, and earned his J.D. from John Marshall Law School in 1989.

	Steven M. Elrod is a partner at Holland & Knight LLP representing private and public sector clients on a broad range of real estate, zoning, land use and entitlements matters. Mr. Elrod served on Holland & Knight's national Board of Directors for two consecutive terms and was the executive partner of the firm's Chicago office. He is now the chairman of Holland & Knight's National Land Use and Government Team. Mr. Elrod serves as Corporation Counsel for the city of Highland Park, Ill., and is Village Attorney for the villages of Northbrook and Lincolnwood, Ill. He is also actively involved in the general representation of the firm's more than two dozen Chicago area municipal clients. He also represents landowners and tenants in a variety of real estate and transactional projects. He handles large tract property acquisition, and retail and shopping center leasing, and is regularly engaged to secure zoning relief and government entitlements, incentives and approvals for developers. In his land use and local government law practice he focuses on: zoning and subdivision ordinance drafting; public-private partnerships; annexation, subdivision and development agreements; tax incentive and abatement agreements; tax increment financing; historic preservation regulation; and affordable housing regulation. Mr. Elrod also has extensive experience in the litigation of land use issues, including eminent domain; takings and inverse condemnation; development impact fees; procedural and substantive due process, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act; and the First Amendment. He recently successfully argued a religious land use case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing law-related education to elementary and high school students.

	G. A. Finch is a Senior Partner at Hoogendoorn & Talbot, a boutique spinoff of Kirkland & Ellis. He practices in the firm's business, real estate and litigation groups. Mr. Finch regularly advises clients on their corporate/commercial matters including formations, financings, acquisitions and corporate governance as well as negotiates executive employment contracts. He has substantial experience in employment law, ethics investigations and counsel, government procurement and governmental affairs. Significant positions he has held include: Partner in the business group at Michael Best & Friedrich and Co-managing Shareholder, Corporate Group Chair, Governmental Affairs/Procurement Group Chair, and Real Estate Group Chair at Querrey & Harrow. He is a former City of Chicago Deputy Planning Commissioner, Illinois Human Rights Commissioner and Chicago Housing Authority General Counsel. He clerked for US District Court Chief Judge James B. Parsons. His honors include: Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow in International Trade; Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow; Illinois Leading Lawyer; Illinois Super Lawyer; Highest Martindale-Hubbell Rating in Legal Ability and Ethics (AV); Chicago Commission on Human Relations Thomas & Eleanor Wright Award; Chicago United Business Leader of Color; Cook County Bar Ida Platt Award; Chicago Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Citizens Award; Illinois League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Award; Lambda Alpha International Honorary Land Economics Society. He was featured as a Distinguished African American Alumnus in the Field of Law in Amherst’s Black History Month Exhibit. A long-time civic leader, he currently serves on the Chicago Bar Association Board of Managers, Chicago Bar Foundation Board of Directors, the City Colleges of Chicago Community Advisory Council, CBA Television Productions, Inc. Board of Directors, The John Marshall Law Center for Real Estate Advisory Board and Decatur Classical Local School Council. He is a Member of: the Economic Club of Chicago and Queen of All Saints Basilica Men’s Club. He is also a Life Member of the Association for the Study of African American Life & History. He previously served as president of the Board of Advisors of St. Joseph Seminary of Loyola University; Board of Trustees of Hampshire College; Board of Trustees of the Commonwealth School; vice president of the Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of America – Chicago Area Council; Board of Directors of the Chicago Community Trust’s Chicago Area Foundation for Legal Services; Board of Directors of Chicago Sinfonietta; vice president of the Board of Directors of Pegasus Players; president of the Board of Directors of the Katherine Dunham Retrospective Festival; Board of Trustees of the Chicago Housing Authority Pension Fund; secretary of the Editorial Board of Illinois Bar Journal; Editorial Board of Chicago Bar Record; vice president of Board of Directors of Amherst Club of Chicago; Board of Directors of Leadership Greater Chicago Fellows Association; Board of Directors of Chicago Legal Clinic; two different Governor’s Transition Teams; Governor’s Committee on Housing; Illinois Agriculture Export Advisory Committee; Lt. Governor’s Energy Task Force; a Cook County President’s Transition Team; Cook County Recorder’s Blue Ribbon Committee; and as vice president and state general counsel to LULAC. His alma maters are Amherst and the University of Michigan Law School.

	Judge James P. Flannery was elected to the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1988 and has served in the Court's Law Division since 1997. Previously, Judge Flannery served in the Criminal Division, the Fourth Municipal Division, and the First Municipal Division. Before wining election as a judge, he practiced with the firm of Murphy, Preston and Jaffe, the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, and the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago. Judge Flannery is a frequent lecturer and panelist at law schools and on legal panels and a highly published legal author. He is also a Judicial Education Faculty member for 2011 New Judge Seminar, Supreme Court of Illinois, May, 2010. His honors and awards include the "Celt of the Year," from the Celtic Legal Society of Chicago, March 17, 2008. Judge Flannery earned his undergraduate degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and his Juris Doctor from the John Marshall Law School in 1976. He is an adjunct professor at the De Paul University College of Law.

	Justin L. Heather is the Chair of the Young Lawyers Section and a founding partner of Korey Cotter Heather & Richardson, LLC (“KCHR”), where he focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation. He represents clients in federal and state courts, as well as before domestic and international arbitral tribunals. He also represents clients in matters involving a wide range of disputes, including: intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, international gas and energy issues, complex commercial contracts, securities law, bankruptcy, franchise law, consumer fraud, and Lanham Act issues. He devotes a substantial amount of time to pro bono cases, including, among others, successfully representing an inmate currently housed on death row in Mississippi in federal habeas corpus proceedings. Prior to forming KCHR, Justin worked in the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for approximately 10 years. Justin serves on the Young Professionals Boards of The Chicago Bar Foundation and the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. He has also served the YLS, the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association in various capacities. Justin is the recipient of several awards for his contributions to the legal community and his legal writing, including the ABA Young Lawyers Division National Outstanding Young Lawyer Award and The Maurice Weigle Exceptional Young Lawyer Award. He has published a number of legal articles, including both practice-related pieces and those directed at more substantive areas of law, that have appeared in, among others, the CBA Record, the Illinois Bar Journal, the ABA Litigation Ethics Newsletter and the Journal of Law & Politics He earned his J.D., cum laude, in 2001 from Northwestern University School of Law, and his A.B. in 1996 from Dartmouth College, where he was a double-major in Government & History. He is admitted to the bars of State of Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fifth and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois.

	Scott W. Henry is a partner at Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd. He has focused his career on litigating products liability, toxic tort, environmental and multi-district class action cases. Mr. Henry currently serves as national and local counsel for numerous companies primarily in asbestos litigation and has presented and published on that area of the law. In these roles, he has developed experience in medical and scientific issues related to toxic tort cases. He has also assisted Fortune 500 companies in compliance with Chicago's complex municipal laws and ordinances. Mr. Henry serves on Segal McCambridge’s Pro Bono and Public Service Committee and has handled pro bono matters on behalf of a variety of clients through the National Immigrant Justice Center and Chicago Legal Clinic. Mr. Henry is a past chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section and past member of the CBA’s Judicial Evaluation Committee. He also served on the Chicago Legal Clinic’s Auxiliary Board and the Junior Board of the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. He lives in Chicago with his wife Christine, daughter Greta and son James. He earned his BA in English from Vanderbilt University, in 1997, and his JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, in 2000.

	Claireen M. Herting is President of Specialized Tax Consulting, Ltd., a firm specializing in income, gift and estate tax planning. Formerly, she was a manager in the personal financial services group at Pricewaterhouse Coopers working with wealthy individuals. She is a CPA. Mrs. Herting has been active at The Chicago Bar Association as a member of the Finance and the Federal Tax committees and served as chairperson of the Estate and Gift Tax committee. She also served on the board of the Chicago Bar Foundation. She is the vice-president of the John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees and a member of the Center of Tax law and Employees Benefits Tax Law Advisory Board. Prior to her appointment as vice president, she served as secretary and as treasurer of the Board. In 1983, she was the recipient of John Marshall’s Distinguished Service Award. She also taught Personal Financial Planning as part of the Center’s LLM in Tax Law program. In addition, Mrs. Herting serves on and is former chair of the Illinois Board of Examiners for CPAs and served as the Great Lakes regional director for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Mrs. Herting also dedicates her time to numerous philanthropic endeavors including service as vice president of the Easter Seal Society of Metropolitan Chicago, as treasurer of Free Arts of Illinois and as a member of the Museum of Science and Industry’s Gift Planning Advisory committee. Her previous involvement include service on the Board of the Illinois CPA Society, including a term as treasurer, chairing numerous committees and teaching courses leading to the Public Service Award and the Honorary Member Award; the Illinois CPA Endowment Board; the Chicago Estate Planning Council, where she served as president, chaired numerous committees and received the Austin Fleming Distinguished Service Award; and on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gift Planning Advisory committee. She earned her BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business and her JD from John Marshall Law School.

	Chief Judge James F. Holderman has been a U. S. District Judge in Chicago since 1985, and has been the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Illinois since July 1, 2006. Throughout almost 25 years on the bench, Chief Judge Holderman has presided over numerous cases in all areas of federal jurisdiction. As a U.S. District Judge, he has also served on judicial panels of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for the Federal Circuit. Before his appointment to the U.S. District Court, Chief Judge Holderman was a partner in the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, where he specialized in federal court litigation across the United States. Before entering private practice, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago. Chief Judge Holderman is a member of the American Bar Association's Commission on the American Jury and served as co-chair of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association American Jury Project Commission. He also served as the judicial coordinator of the conversion of the Northern District of Illinois to electronic filing, and is heavily involved with the ongoing Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program. A frequent speaker at judicial and bar association seminars, both nationally and internationally, he has also taught at several law schools, including the University of Chicago, the John Marshall Law School, and the University of Illinois College of Law. He currently teaches an intensive course entitled Intellectual Property Trial Advocacy with his wife, Adjunct Professor Paula Hudson Holderman, at the U of I College of Law. He has also been a long-standing faculty member at trial advocacy programs sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. His many awards and honors include the 2004 Distinguished Judicial Service Award from the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and recognition in 2008 by the Women's Bar Association of Illinois for his support of women in the legal profession. He is the author of several articles for law reviews and other legal publications on various legal topics. Chief Judge Holderman earned both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and during law school served as the managing editor of the law review.

	Dan Kirk has served as Chief of Staff to Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez since December, 2008. As Chief of Staff, Mr. Kirk is a primary advisor to the State's Attorney and is the head of the Executive Staff of the State's Attorney's Office overseeing budget, communications, personnel, policy and program development, hiring and training. As an Assistant State's Attorney, Mr. Kirk also continues to handle specially assigned matters at the direction of the State's Attorney. Prior to returning to the State's Attorney's Office, Mr. Kirk was a partner at the Chicago law firm of Querrey & Harrow, Ltd. His practice focused on personal injury defense, commercial litigation and contractual disputes. After a little more than two years at Querrey & Harrow, Mr. Kirk was elected as a partner at the firm, a position he held until he returned to the State's Attorney's Office in 2008. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Kirk served as an Assistant State's Attorney in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and served in the Child Support Enforcement Division, the Narcotics Prosecutions Bureau and the Criminal Prosecutions Bureau at 26th and California where he tried numerous felony matters. Mr. Kirk has been an active member of the Chicago Bar Association since 2002 and, until his election to the Board of Managers, served on the Judicial Evaluation Committee conducting investigations and hearings. He was active in the planning and implementation of the 2010 International Continuing Education Seminar conducted in Cancun, Mexico. He is a 2010 Fellow in Leadership Greater Chicago, volunteers for philanthropic development for Teen Living Programs and is the 2010 Recipient of the Richard J. Phelan Public Service Award given by the Chicago Bar Foundation. He is a Chicago resident and lives in the Lakeview neighborhood.

	Timothy E. Moran is a partner in the law firm of Schmidt Salzman & Moran, Ltd. where he has practiced since 1988 in the field of real estate taxation and related issues, and concentrates largely on contesting real property values before Assessors and Boards of Review in Cook and outlying counties, the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board and in the Circuit Court, as well as litigating tax assessment and tax deed related matters in the Circuit and Appellate Courts. Mr. Moran previously served as Chairman of the Illinois State Bar Association's State & Local Taxation Section Council, is past Chairman of the CBA's Real Estate Taxation Committee, is a member of the Board of Director's of the Civic Federation and serves as Co-Chairman of its Property Tax Committee, is a member of the Property Tax Advisory Committee of the Taxpayer's Federation of Illinois, and has served on numerous other committees and task forces. He is also a member and former Vice Chair of the Unauthorized Practice of Law Task Force of the Illinois State Bar Association and serves on its governing Assembly and its Legislation Committee, and is a member of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association, and previously served as Chair of its Legislation Committee. Mr. Moran has participated in continuing legal education seminars on real estate taxation for the Illinois, Chicago and Kane County Bar Associations. He is general editor and chapter co-author of the 2008 and 2005 editions of Real Estate Taxation published by the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, and has authored articles appearing in the Journal of Property Tax Management, ISBA Tax Trends newsletter, ISBA Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy newsletter and ISBA Human Rights Newsletter. Mr. Moran is an elected member and current Vice President of the Board of Education of Geneva, Illinois CUSD 304, is currently Chairman of the Geneva Ethics Commission and previously served as Treasurer of the City of Geneva and as Trustee and Vice President of the Geneva Library Board. He received his B.S. in Commerce and J.D. from DePaul University.

	Judge Mary K. Rochford was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court in November 2010. Her previous judicial experience includes Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County (1991-2006) and Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County (2006-2010). In 2007, she was assigned to the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County where she heard complex civil cases. Before joining the Chancery Division, she had dual assignments in the Law Division, where she heard personal injury cases, and to the Second Municipal District. There, Judge Rochford handled both civil and criminal matters including domestic violence and misdemeanors, and charges of driving under the influence. Prior to these assignments, she was assigned to the First Municipal District (1991-1993). Before being appointed to the bench, Judge Rochford practiced as an appellate lawyer for the City of Chicago, Office of the Corporation Counsel, and was in private practice handling a variety of cases before the Illinois Supreme Court, the Illinois Appellate Court and the Seventh District Court of Appeals. Under Chicago Mayor, the late Harold Washington, she was appointed Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel in charge of the Appeals Division. Judge Rochford has been honored by community groups for her involvement in philanthropic activities, especially student education. Among her honors are "Judge of the Year" (2006) by the North Suburban Bar Association and the YWCA's "Victim Safety Award" (2007). Judge Rochford is an active member of several bar associations, including the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association and the Illinois Judges Association. Judge Rochford earned both her Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Notre Dame.

	Larry R. Rogers, Sr. is a founding partner in the firm of Power, Rogers & Smith, P.C. A leader in the personal injury field, Mr. Rogers was elected president of both the Cook County Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, serving as the latter's first African American president. He was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a member of the Board of Trustees of City Colleges of Chicago. He also serves as a member on the Board of Trustees of John Marshall Law School, DePaul University and is a former Trustee of St. Xavier University. He recently served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority. He has lectured extensively in various aspects of trial advocacy. Mr. Rogers has obtained several multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements in a multitude of cases including medical malpractice, product liability and motor vehicle negligence. He has been honored with the Earl B. Dickerson Award from the Chicago Bar Association which honors outstanding minority lawyers whose careers at the bar emulate the courage and dedication in making the law the key to justice for all in our society. He has also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Xavier University and the DePaul University College of Law Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to the Legal Profession. He has been listed as one of the Top Ten National Litigators by the National Law Journal and is listed in Harvard Law Graduates Naifeh and Smith book, The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Rogers received his Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from St. Xavier University and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from DePaul University College of Law and Honorary Doctor of Public Service from St. Xavier University. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

	Michael P. Rohan is a litigator with McDonald & McCabe LLC. Prior to joining the firm, he spent more than eight years in the litigation department of a national law firm based in Chicago, where he gained experience in a variety of commercial litigation matters. Mr. Rohan's trial experience includes obtaining a defense verdict in a two-month class action trial for a Fortune 100 subsidiary, where the client faced a potential judgment of $1.5 billion. Mr. Rohan has successfully represented clients at trial in criminal matters and has experience conducting numerous corporate internal investigations and has represented clients at all stages of litigation, including discovery, dismissals of suits, and on appeal. Mr. Rohan has significant experience in large-scale tort and insurance matters. His insurance experience encompasses work in insurance coverage cases related to the April 1992 Chicago Flood. Recently, he represented a large quarry client in litigation alleging multiple torts related to damage to a state highway. His creative approach in that litigation helped obtain partial summary judgment for the quarry on an issue potentially worth $75 million. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, graduating magna cum laude in 1999. He has served in various capacities on committees of the American Bar Association and the CBA including as Chair of the CBA's Young Lawyers Section. He is the author of How to Survive and Thrive as a New Associate in a Chicago Law Firm, and "Hey New Lawyer, Here's How to Survive and Thrive," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, December 10, 2007.

	Karen G. Seimetz is the General Counsel of the Chicago Transit Authority, where she oversees and manages the day-to-day operations of its Law Department involving litigation, transactions, procurement, real estate, ethics and labor and employment-related disputes. She began her career over 25 years ago at the law firm of Phelan, Pope and John, a firm specializing in complex litigation, where she became a partner. Her practice was concentrated on products liability, toxic tort, commercial disputes, antitrust, personal injury and medical malpractice. In 1996, she joined the City of Chicago’s Law Department, starting in the Torts Division where she tried numerous high-exposure cases involving paramedic malpractice, traffic accidents and police pursuits. She also served as lead counsel on several high-profile cases against the City, including the numerous lawsuits arising out of the catastrophic high-rise fire at the Cook County Administration Building and the E-2 nightclub tragedy. Before joining the CTA, from 2007 through November of 2010, she served as the First Assistant for the City of Chicago's Law Department.

	Howard S. Suskin is a partner at Jenner & Block LLP in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He is a Co-Chair of its Class Action Practice and a member of the Securities Litigation and International Arbitration Practices. He is also a member of the firm’s Subprime Litigation Task Force and its Tenant-in-Common Workout Task Force. Mr. Suskin has substantial first-chair experience representing individuals and business entities in civil and criminal securities matters, including class actions alleging securities fraud and misrepresentation claims, derivative actions claiming breach of fiduciary duty, contests for corporate control, insider trading investigations and broker-dealer issues. In addition to his litigation practice, he also has substantial experience counseling and representing clients in connection with securities administrative and self-regulatory organization proceedings and in arbitrations. He is active as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Circuit Court of Cook County, FINRA and the National Futures Association. He is also a mediator with FINRA. An active member of the American Bar Association’s Securities Law Committee, he has served as co-chair of the Class and Derivative Actions Subcommittee. Mr. Suskin has also served the Chicago Bar Association in many capacities including as former chairman of the CBA’s Class Action, Bench & Bar, Financial & Investment Services, and Securities Law Committees. He also served as legislative liaison for the Securities and Financial & Investment Services Committees and is an active member of the CBA’s Judicial Evaluation Committee. Mr. Suskin is the author of numerous books and treatises on class actions and securities law. He is also an in-demand speaker. He is a frequent contributor to numerous business and legal publications including Bloomberg, Thomson West, Mealey’s Litigation Report: Class Actions, ABA’s Securities Litigation Journal, Law.com and BNA’s Securities Regulation and Law, among many other publications. Mr. Suskin is a member of the Advisory Board of Board IQ, a Financial Times publication, and the Securities Editorial Advisory Board of Law360. Mr. Suskin also is on the faculty of Practising Law Institute. He has won numerous awards throughout his career including being named to Illinois Super Lawyers, Securities Litigation every year from 2006 – 2011 and has been named to the Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyers from 2007 through 2010. He serves on the Board of Jewish Child and Family Services.