	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.

	First Vice 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.

	Second 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.

	Treasurer - Daniel Cotter, is Chair of the Corporate, Transactional and Regulatory Group at Lindemann LLC, Downers Grove. Previously, he was vice president and general counsel at Argo Group U.S., Inc. and senior counsel with Unitirin 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 serving on the Board and as President, Treasurer and currently as Vice President of the Edgebrook School District, serving as 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).

	Secretary - 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.

CBA Board of Managers

	Immediate Past President - Anita M. Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney, is a career prosecutor and a life-long Chicagoan who was born and raised in the Pilsen neighborhood. She received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University of Chicago and she earned her Law Degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ms. Alvarez began her career in the State’s Attorney’s Office in 1986 and has steadily worked her way up through the ranks, handling hundreds of felony cases ranging from homicide, narcotics, armed robbery, criminal sexual assaults and domestic violence. She has argued before the Illinois Appellate Court and tried more than 50 felony jury trials. Prior to winning election as State’s Attorney, she served as the Chief of Staff to the Cook County State's Attorney; Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau; Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Bureau, and Supervisor of the Public Integrity Unit. She also spent 3 ½ years in the Gang Crimes Unit where she prosecuted gang-related homicides. Ms. Alvarez was promoted to the Supervisor of the Public Integrity Unit in 1996, where she was responsible for prosecuting city, county, and state employees who committed felonies and violated the public trust. She personally tried police officers on corruption charges. In 1999, she was promoted to Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Bureau where she supervised the prosecution of drug cases as well as long term narcotics investigations in conjunction with Chicago and suburban police departments. She became the Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau in 2001. The Bureau consists of the Arson Unit, Organized Crime/Cold Case Unit, Auto Theft Unit, Public Corruption and Financial Crimes Unit, Gang Crimes Unit, and the Professional Standards Unit. Also in 2001, Ms. Alvarez tried the case of the People of the State of Illinois v. Patrick Sykes, which was commonly referred to in widespread media as the "Girl X Case". Her successful prosecution of Sykes resulted in his conviction for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a 9- year-old-girl who was left paralyzed, blind, without speech and confined to a wheelchair after the brutal attack in the Cabrini Green housing project. Her tireless work and dedication ensured that, despite the victim's daunting physical challenges, she was able to come to court and fearlessly face her attacker. She is active in various bar associations and organizations. She was a founding member of the National Hispanic Prosecutors Association and served as its National President. She was chosen as a fellow in the 2004 class of Leadership Greater Chicago and served on their board from 2004 - 2006. Additionally, Ms. Alvarez serves on the Board of Trustees for Fenwick High School and is on the Board of Directors for Maria High School, her alma mater. Various groups and organizations have honored her throughout her career. In 2001, she was named Person of the Year by Chicago Lawyer magazine. That same year, she was honored for her work in the Girl X case by the Council for Disability Rights for precedent setting advocacy. In 2002, she was the recipient of the Professional Achievement Award from Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 2005, she was named Person of the Year by the Latin American Police Association and also named States Attorney of the Year by the Illinois State Crime Commission. Ms. Alvarez is a frequent speaker and lecturer to many organizations and from 2002 to 2005 was an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School.

	Mary Beth Cyze is currently Assistant Corporation Counsel for the Village of Wilmette, where she serves as local prosecutor and represents the Village in a variety of municipal corporate matters. Prior to joining the Village of Wilmette in 2000, Ms. Cyze was Of Counsel to law firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. There she concentrated in commercial and environmental litigation. Her practice included trial, appellate, and regulatory work for a variety of corporate clients. As a member of the Chicago Bar Association, she has served on both the Investigation and Hearing Divisions of the Judicial Evaluation Committee. Additionally, Ms. Cyze was a Director of the Young Lawyers Section of the CBA and Co-Chair of the Trial Techniques Committee. She previously served as Vice-Chair for the American Bar Association Special Committee on Environmental Litigation Techniques. She has been a member of the Chicago Inn of Court since 1990. Ms. Cyze is substantially involved in charitable, civic and school activities within the community where her family resides. She has held numerous executive and general board PTO positions within Wilmette School District 39 and New Trier Township. She is currently on the Auxiliary Board for Lawrence Hall, a not-for-profit child welfare agency and therapeutic boarding school that assists abused and neglected children. After obtaining her law degree from Loyola University of Chicago Law School in 1985, Ms. Cyze served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Mel R. Jiganti (ret.) of the Illinois Appellate Court. Ms. Cyze graduated summa cum laude from St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota with a B.A. in Public Administration.

	Carrie J. Di Santo is Vice President and Global Chief Compliance Officer of Aon Corporation in Chicago, where she has global responsibility for Aon Corporation’s compliance and ethics program. Carrie previously was Legal & Regulatory Director (General Counsel) for Aon Ltd. in London, where she oversaw the legal and compliance functions for Aon's UK subsidiary, including regular interaction with the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA). Carrie joined Aon in 2007 as Assistant General Counsel with responsibility for international compliance issues, including anti-corruption and trade/OFAC compliance, and was appointed Global FCPA Compliance Director. Prior to joining Aon in 2007, Carrie was a partner in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP, where she advised publicly-held companies and other organizations on international compliance issues and internal investigations, including multi-million dollar investigations relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), non-U.S. anti-corruption laws, anti-money laundering, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Patriot Act and other issues involving allegations of corporate misconduct. She represented companies and individuals in criminal and regulatory investigations, as well as in related criminal and commercial litigation. Ms. Di Santo assisted numerous multinational companies in designing and implementing their compliance and ethics programs and implementing those programs throughout their international operations. She has also advised on compliance issues associated with cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity/venture capital investment activities. Ms. Di Santo clerked for the Honorable William J. Bauer, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. She is a graduate of Augustana College and has a JD from the University of Notre Dame. She is a frequent speaker on issues of international compliance, internal investigations, and compliance programs and has been a guest lecturer at the Northwestern University Law School and for the CBA.

	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.

	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.

	Justice Margaret O'Mara Frossard was born on Nov. 23, 1951, in Chicago. She received her B.A. degree with honors in political science from Northwestern University in 1973 and her J.D. degree from IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1976, where she was a member of the Law Review and the National Moot Court Team. Judge Frossard was an Assistant State's Attorney in Cook County from 1976 to 1988, where she was Chief of the Felony Trial Division. Her judicial experience includes Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County (1988-94), Circuit Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County (1994-97) and Judge of the Appellate Court, First District, since 1997. Judge Frossard is a member of the Illinois and American Judges' Associations, the Illinois State, Chicago, Women's and Northwestern Bar Associations, and is on the Board of Managers of the North Suburban Bar Association.

	Claireen M. Herting is a manager in the personal financial services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers working with wealthy individuals. She is a CPA and has spent her whole career with the firm. 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 is the vice-president of the John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees and a member of the Center of Tax law and Employee 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 serves 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 involvements include service on the Board of the Illinois CPA Society, including a term as treasurer, chairing numbers 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.

	Daniel M. Kotin is a partner at Corboy & Demetrio and his practice involves representing individuals in personal injury and wrongful death litigation, including medical malpractice, product liability, and transportation cases. As a result of his vast experience, he has attained leadership positions on Steering Committees and has been appointed Lead Counsel on mass tort litigation arising from fires, train derailments, airplane accidents and other disasters. Dan has achieved numerous multi-million dollar jury verdicts on behalf of clients. Several of these verdicts have been noteworthy for their amount and legal significance. Recently, he obtained a $29.6 million verdict on behalf of a woman who suffered brain injuries in the derailment of a Metra train. The verdict is the largest in Illinois for an individual injured in a mass transit crash. In 2008, he secured a $9.5 million verdict on behalf of the family of former Chicago Blackhawk hockey player and coach Keith Magnuson who was killed in a Toronto car crash. That verdict is the largest award for a personal injury or wrongful death case in the history of St. Louis County, Missouri. Several years earlier, he tried a medical negligence case which resulted in a $10 million verdict, one of the ten largest medical malpractice verdicts ever handed down in Cook County at that time. Another trial of note took place early in Dan's career when he obtained a jury verdict in a negligence case against a nursing home that resulted in a significant appellate interpretation of the Illinois Nursing Home Act. In 2008, Dan obtained a $17.5 million settlement on behalf of the family of a woman who was killed and three others who were injured in the high-rise fire in the Cook County Administration Building. The lawsuit settled on the day of jury selection. Outside of the courtroom, Dan lectures at Loyola University School of Law where he serves as a coach of the School's National Mock Trial Team. He also sits on the Board of Governors for the law school and serves as a Co-Chair of its Circle of Advocates. He is on the faculty at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy where he teaches trial skills to lawyers in an annual program. He is very involved with the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), where he serves on the Board of Managers and the Association's Finance Committee. Over the years, he has chaired multiple committees of the CBA and served as the director of its Young Lawyers Section. Dan is also very involved in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, where he is a member of the Board of Managers and was previously the Chairman of the Association's Seminar Planning Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the prestigious Society of Trial Lawyers where he previously served on the Board of Directors. Dan regularly lectures at various bar association and interest group seminars and has published chapters and articles in legal books, periodicals and newspapers. To date, he has presented at more than fifty legal programs and has been published more than ten times. In 2002, Dan was recognized and profiled by Chicago's Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch," and honored by the Lawdragon as one of "500 New Stars, New World," in 2006. He is currently profiled as one of the Top 5% of Civil Trial Lawyers in Illinois by the Leading Lawyers Network, has been designated an "Illinois Super Lawyer" and maintains an AV rating - the highest possible rating for any attorney - from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

	Barry Kozak is the Associate Director of the graduate Employee Benefits programs at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and teaches various JD, LLM and MS level classes in employee benefits, income tax, elder law, compensation law, workplace privacy and sexual orientation law as an adjunct member of the faculty. Barry is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law and teaches Employee Benefits Law. Barry began his career in 1987 as a pension plan consultant and worked for various actuarial consulting firms, became an Enrolled Actuary in 1994, and then earned his ChFC and Series 7 professional designations. He refocused his career by attending law school and earning his JD and LLM in Employee Benefits degrees from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2000. Upon graduation, Barry immediately started teaching as an adjunct professor at John Marshall, earned additional professional designations, held several legal positions in law firms and actuarial firms, and wrote the initial round of PFC-2 exam questions for investment professionals seeking the Qualified Pension Financial Consultant designation through ASPPA. Barry became the full time Associate Director of the graduate Employee Benefits programs in 2006, and earned a Master's degree from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies in 2009. Barry has held leadership positions in the Chicago Bar Association, the American Bar Association Tax Section, the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, and the Great Lakes TE/GE Advisory Council. He has authored a textbook on Employee Benefit Plans for Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming) and a BNA Tax Management Portfolio on employee benefit plans and issues for small employers (forthcoming), has been asked to be co-editor and a lead contributing author of the CPA's Guide to Retirement Plans for Small Businesses (forthcoming Third Edition), as well as numerous academic articles and chapters of collaborative employee benefits-related reference books. Barry's current academic research focuses on retirement policy in an aging population, funding and investment issues with public sector pension plans, availability of employee benefits to same-sex spouses, civil union spouses, and same-sex domestic partners, using a target benefit approach to adequately fund individual account plans, and the role of government in curbing excessive executive compensation practices.

	Jill Eckert McCall is the 2010-2011 Chair of the CBA Young Lawyers Section and the Director of the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education. A legal career counselor for more than nine years, Ms. McCall edited 100 Plus Pointers for the New Partner, co-authored two legal career books, wrote career articles for The Young Lawyer newsletter, and contributed to the fifth edition of What Can You Do With A Law Degree? book. She earned her Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law, her Master of Business Administration with distinction from DePaul University Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, and her Bachelor of Science in Journalism cum laude from the Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College.

	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.

	William B. Oberts is a director at Tribler, Orpett & Meyer, P.C. He specializes in governmental municipal defense in torts and civil rights litigation, legal malpractice, and construction litigation. He was recently recognized by Super Lawyer magazine as a 2009 Illinois Rising Star. Bill is a member of the Chicago Bar Association's Board of Managers and Chicago Bar Foundation's Board of Directors. He is a past Chair of the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association. He has served on both the Investigations and Hearings Committee of the Chicago Bar Association's Judicial Evaluations Committee. He was recently appointed to serve on an auxiliary committee for the Illinois Judges Foundation. Bill also serves as a committee member on the CBA Blue Ribbon Committee on Cook County's Juvenile Detention Center and Co-Chair of the CBA Special Committee to review JEC guidelines and procedures. Bill has held various positions with the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division, including Vice-Chair of the National Conference Committee, District Representative, and District FEMA Coordinator for Illinois and Indiana. Bill compiled the Civil Rights Update 2004 – 2005, highlighting significant Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit decisions under Section 1983 and various civil rights acts for the Illinois Municipal Risk League Association. He co-authored Timing is Everything, CBA Record, July 1997, re-published in ABA Government Law Committee, Winter 2008, an article addressing the statute of limitations in false arrest and malicious prosecution claims. He also authored articles regarding civility including: Can't We All Just Get Along?, CBA Record, January 2008, and Reputation: Hard to Build and Easy to Lose, Chicago Lawyer, March 2008. Bill has appeared as a panelist at the CBA Basic Skills Course's Civility in the Profession program in 2007 and 2008. He is also a co-moderator of a bi-monthly webcast series entitled You're a Young Lawyer produced by Thompson Reuters and West Legalworks which addresses various issues facing young lawyers such as bias within the workplace and professionalism. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law.

	Timothy Ray is a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he concentrates in complex commercial litigation, providing counsel to a variety of corporations in the areas of product liability, class actions, UCC disputes, antitrust, breach of contract, fraud and internal investigations. He also has provided counsel to local hospitals on complex contracting issues and has represented physicians in negotiations and disputes involving formation of satellite clinics. He has served as lead counsel and trial lawyer for a Fortune 500 company in various litigation matters. He has also been involved in major class action litigation arising from product defects, and recently conducted an internal investigation for a leading health insurer concerning a $50 million proprietary software-licensing dispute. He has also defended clients in numerous AAA arbitrations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution and has successfully tried more than 30 jury trials to verdict in both federal and state court. He is a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, the State of Illinois Supreme Court Planning and Oversight Committee for a Judicial Performance Evaluation Program, Illinois State Bar and Chicago Bar Associations' Joint Task Force on Funding Judicial Campaigns and the Chicago Committee of Minorities in Large Law Firms. He serves on the boards of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority and the University of Iowa College of Law. Tim earned his JD in 1994 from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he was a member of the Iowa Law Review and the Iowa Moot Court Board. In 1991, he earned his BA from Xavier University of New Orleans. In 2004, he was named one of the "40 Attorneys Under 40 to Watch" by Chicago Lawyer magazine.

	Larry R. Rogers, Sr. is a founding partner in the firm of Power, Rogers & Smith, P.C., where he practices personal injury law. As a litigator, he 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 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' numerous awards include the Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Xavier University and DePaul University College of Law Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to the Legal Profession. In 2010, he was named the Earl Burrus Dickerson Award winner of the CBA for outstanding service to the legal profession and the community. Mr. Rogers also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The John Marshall Law School and DePaul University College of Law Dean's Council and has lectured extensively in various aspects of trial advocacy. He has served as president of both the Cook County Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association where he was the organization's first African American president. He was also appointed by Governor Pat Quinn as Chairman of the Illinois Criminal Information Authority. He earned his law degree from DePaul University College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from St. Xavier University. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from DePaul University College of Law. 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.

	Jesse H. Ruiz is a partner in Drinker Biddle & Reath's corporate and securities group. He concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions and the representation of public and middle market companies. He is also legal counsel to the 14 Illinois senators and representatives who formed the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus and the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation. In 2003, he received the Foundation's Outstanding Leadership Award for providing legal counsel to both the Foundation and the Caucus, and assisting in the formation of both organizations. In September 2004, Jesse was appointed Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education by the Governor and was reappointed in 2007. He will serve until 2011. In August 2005, he was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession by the President of the American Bar Association. He is also Past Chairman of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, and is on the Board of Directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the leading Latino litigation, advocacy and educational outreach institution in the U.S. He is past president of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois and Past Chairman of the Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund of Illinois. He has taught corporate law as an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Law at John Marshall Law School. He also currently serves on several other civic and charitable boards and committees. In March 2007, El Valor, one of the country's leading nonprofits serving the Hispanic Community, awarded Jesse their Education Excellence Award for his work to open doors for educational opportunities for everyone. In September 2005, he was selected by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White to receive his Education Award, honoring his commitment to promoting leadership in the Hispanic community and the City of Chicago and as an individual who contributes to improving the quality of life of all Latinos in Illinois. He also received the Chicago Bar Association's 2005 Vanguard Award as a Chicago-area lawyer who has "made the law and legal profession more accessible to and reflective of the community at-large." Jesse was named an "Illinois Super Lawyer" in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions. He was also named to the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network. In 2003, Jesse was named to Crain's Chicago Business list of "40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Chicago Business." That same year, Chicago Lawyer magazine named him one of the "40 Attorneys Under 40 in Illinois to Watch" and was selected by Chicago United to be featured in its first "Business Leaders of Color" publication, featured in the October 13, 2003 issue of Crain's Chicago Business. Jesse received his J.D. degree from The University of Chicago Law School, where he served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable, and his B.A. degree in economics and business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.