Join your judges and colleagues for the 13th Annual Symposium with the Judges, an event to provide sitting judges from Cook County a forum to share their wisdom and advice with the lawyers who appear before them. As panelists, the judges field questions, offer candid comments, provide valuable advocacy tips and reveal the policies and procedures that are unique to their courtrooms. You’ll hear the ‘state of the law division’, current motion practice procedures and the latest timelines, and with trials back in full swing detailed discussions about strategies for trying cases today.
Opening Remarks
Hon. Timothy C. Evans, Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
State of the Law Division Return to trials and other procedural updates
• Hon. James P. Flannery, Jr., Presiding Judge, Law Division
• Hon. Brendan A. O’Brien, Motion Section
• Discussion Leader: Robert A. Clifford, Founder and Senior Partner, Clifford Law Offices
Motion Section Keeping things moving
• Hon. Kathy M. Flanagan, Supervising Judge, Motion Section
• Hon. James O’Hara, Motion Section
• Hon. Daniel A. Trevino, Motion Section
• Discussion Leader: Stacey Cischke, Shareholder, Johnson & Bell Ltd
Trial Section I Up until trial
• Hon. Bridget Jane Hughes, Trial Section
• Hon. Thomas V. Lyons II, Trial Section
• Hon. Robert E. Senechalle Jr., Trial Section
• Discussion Leader: John Patton, Managing Partner, Patton & Ryan LLC
Trial Section II Getting trial done
• Hon. Elizabeth M. Budzinski, Trial Section
• Hon. Janet Adams Brosnahan, Trial Section
• Hon. Thomas More Donnelly, Trial Section
• Discussion Leader: Lou Cairo, Managing Partner, GWC Injury Lawyers LLC
