With topics carefully crafted and taught by a committee of knowledgeable, experienced attorneys, the IICLE 4th Annual Local Government Law Institute is your resource for hands-on, practical help with municipal law issues. Learn about pressing issues such as utilizing public/private partnerships to fund public improvements, disciplining employees, understanding the Illinois Sunshine Laws, and working with challenging boards. Hear from a panel of in-house corporation counsel about how outside counsel can work most effectively with them. Our experts will address the hottest topics in local government law.

The 5th Annual Local Government Law Institute maximizes your learning about hot topics in Municipal Law, such as PSEBA, zoning, the First Amendment, defending FOIA and OMA complaints, ethical issues concerning who’s the client, and managing expectations and risks concerning sensitive social issues. Featuring 7 hours of CLE, including 2.75 hours of Professional Responsibility credit and a panel featuring the faculty discussing their biggest “lessons learned,” you won’t want to miss this program!

With topics carefully crafted and taught by a committee of knowledgeable, experienced attorneys, the IICLE® 6th Annual Local Government Law Institute continues to be your resource for hands-on, practical help with local government law issues. Learn about pressing issues important to counties, intergovernmental conflict and agreement, zoning and land use litigation and ethical communications. Also, get up-to-date on the latest cases and statutes and learn about the hottest topics affecting the practice area.

The current and former General Counsel to Governor Rauner in a panel discussion on the important and complicated legal issues that confronted them in this critically important position in our state government. Originally presented as part of the 6th Annual Local Government Law Institute, available in its entirety as P9017-18U.

Learn best practices in responding to a request for review from the PAC.

Explore options for managing both expectations and risks when asked to solve social issues with laws.

Explore several facets of communicating on legal issues and the legal and ethical considerations that must govern these communications, including social media, ex parte communications, lawyer advocacy in the context of zoning hearings, Open Meetings Act restraints, and local government litigation. Originally presented as part of the 6th Annual Local Government Law Institute, available in its entirety as P9017-18U.

Who’s the client? How do you identify conflicts? Whose conflict is it? Does it matter? How do you deal with it? Get answers to these and other ethics questions for Government Law Attorneys.

Understand the relationship of local governmental entities to one another in their mission to serve the public. Originally presented as part of the 6th Annual Local Government Law Institute, available in its entirety as P9017-18U.

Learn about ways implicit bias can affect our communications and actions in the workplace, and explore ways to ‘interrupt’ bias and improve the workplace environment. Originally presented as part of the 6th Annual Local Government Law Institute, available in its entirety as P9017-18U.