MCBA Newsletter april 6, 2020
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2020 April Events 4/8/20 (Wed.) - postponed Real Estate Committee Meeting 4/10/20 (Fri.) - Cancelled "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts 4/14/20 (Tues.) - Virtual BOG Meeting 4/17/20 (Fri.) - Cancelled "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts 4/21/20 (Tues.) CLE Luncheon - Postponed 4/24/20 (Fri.) - Cancelled "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts Wine Tour - Cancelled 4/28/20 (Tues.) CLE Committee Meeting May Events 5/1/20 (Fri.) "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts 5/8/20 (Fri.) "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts 5/9/20 (Sat.) Softball Challenge - Pending 5/13/20 (Wed.) GAL Committee Meeting 5/15/20 (Fri.) "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts 5/22/20 (Fri.) "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts 5/25/20 (Mon.) Law & Justice Center Closed 5/26/20 (Tues.) CLE Committee Meeting 5/29/20 (Fri.) "Breakfast with the Bar" at Scouts June Events 6/16/20 (Tues.) Annual Bar Meeting July Events 7/3/20 (Fri.) Law & Justice Center Closed 7/21/20 (Tues.) CLE Luncheon-Collections August Events 8/18/20 (Tues.) CLE Luncheon September Events 9/7/20 (Mon.) Law & Justice Center Closed 9/15/20 (Tues.) CLE Luncheon 9/26/20 (Sat.) Law Day Celebration Gala October Events 10/12/20 (Mon.) Law & Justice Center Closed 10/20/20 (Tues.) CLE Luncheon 10/21 & 22 (Tues. & Wed.) GAL Conference November Events 11/11/20 (Mon.) Law & Justice Center Closed 11/17/20 (Tues.) CLE Luncheon 11/26 & 11/27/20 (Thurs. & Fri.) Law & Justice Center Closed December Events 12/24 & 25 (Thurs. & Fri.) Law & Justice Center Closed 2021 January Events 1/1/21 (Fri.) Law & Justice Center Closed |
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENTDespite the current circumstances, I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and is enjoying the additional quality family time with this beautiful Spring weather! As COVID-19 continues to impact our profession, we will continue to post necessary links to the orders, directives and updates onto the MCBA website homepage. If you missed the communications, please check this LINK. Thank you, Mary for your hard work! We have a MCBA Facebook page! Nargis Khokhar and Craig Queen will be serving as co-administrators for the private page. The co-administrators will ensure that only genuine MCBA members, retired and active practitioners, will be allowed access. We now have more than 50 participants thus far. Let us keep it free of politics, if possible. We plan to have it serve a greater purpose to include such items as instant posting of latest Executive Orders, clarifications on guidelines, client referrals, community service volunteer opportunities, and more. Happy Facebooking everyone (if that is a valid term). Thus far, I have participated in several Bar-related Zoom conferencing. To keep our great work going, I would continue to encourage the use of Zoom or other similar modes for MCBA committee work remotely until May 1st for now. Once again, we cancelled the April 24th Mackinaw Valley Winery Tour. We've moved the 2020 Law Day Gala from May 8th to Saturday, September 26th. Stay tuned for additional details. I am anticipating an early Summer get-together as I am sure everyone is looking forward to meeting up with one other if for no other reason than to heal and celebrate. Finally, nominations remain open for The Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. The deadline is extended to Thursday, April 30. Continue to Be well and Be safe. Best regards, Joe Foley announcement
I hope everyone is doing well during this challenging time. Prairie State Legal Services is fully staffed and accepting cases. Our physical office is closed. Our staff are working from home. Our staff’s contact information has not changed. Please contact Adrian at abarr@pslegal.org or (309) 433-0065 if you have any questions. Adrian Barr 2020
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Nathan B. Hinch is an attorney in private practice at Mueller, Reece & Hinch, LLC in Bloomington, Illinois and with satellite, by appointment, office locations in Peoria and Wheaton, Illinois. He helps clients with wills, trusts, and other estate planning matters, and with legal issues regarding business, real estate, construction, and civil litigation. He also serves as an administrative hearing officer for the Town of Normal, Illinois, in adjudication proceedings for municipal ordinance violations.
Mr. Hinch is licensed to practice law in Illinois by the Illinois Supreme Court (2007) and is admitted to the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (2011). He holds a J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law with a Certificate in the Program in Environmental and Energy Law (2007) and a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from Wheaton College (IL) (2000).
He was named a “30 Under 30” honoree by the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce in 2010, a “40 Under 40” honoree by the McLean County Chamber of Commerce in 2014, an “Emerging Lawyer” by the Leading Lawyers Network in 2015 and 2017 and a “Leading Lawyer” since 2018, and the McLean County Bar Association’s “Young Lawyer of the Year” in 2015. He currently serves on the board of governors and as the chairperson of the Hon. Robert C. Underwood Professionalism Committee of the McLean County Bar Association, as council member and former CLE chair for the Construction Law Section of the Illinois State Bar Association, as a board member of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, and as a member of the American Bar Association, and the Peoria County Bar Association. Nathan is a Paul Harris Fellow and has served as a board member of Bloomington Club of Rotary International and its Foundation, and is a Fellow with the Illinois Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation.
Mr. Hinch is also the 2020 president of the board of directors for the McLean County Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Advocate Healthcare Foundation board for Advocate BroMenn and Advocate Eureka Medical Centers. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Parklands Foundation, a nature conservancy with holdings of more than 1,500 acres in McLean and Woodford Counties and as chairman of the board of elders for his local church. He volunteers pro bono work and has helped with fundraising support for a variety of charitable organizations in McLean County, most recently including Prairie State Legal Services, the Immigration Project, Lawyers for the Creative Arts, the Boy Scouts of America, the Boys and Girls Club. He lives in Bloomington, Illinois with his wife Sarah and their three children.
Nathan is the author of the Hinch Law Blog, at www.hinchlaw.blogspot.com and can be followed on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/HinchLaw ), Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter ( @nathanhinch ). He can also be found at www.mrh-law.com .
Mr. Hinch is licensed to practice law in Illinois by the Illinois Supreme Court (2007) and is admitted to the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (2011). He holds a J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law with a Certificate in the Program in Environmental and Energy Law (2007) and a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from Wheaton College (IL) (2000).
He was named a “30 Under 30” honoree by the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce in 2010, a “40 Under 40” honoree by the McLean County Chamber of Commerce in 2014, an “Emerging Lawyer” by the Leading Lawyers Network in 2015 and 2017 and a “Leading Lawyer” since 2018, and the McLean County Bar Association’s “Young Lawyer of the Year” in 2015. He currently serves on the board of governors and as the chairperson of the Hon. Robert C. Underwood Professionalism Committee of the McLean County Bar Association, as council member and former CLE chair for the Construction Law Section of the Illinois State Bar Association, as a board member of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, and as a member of the American Bar Association, and the Peoria County Bar Association. Nathan is a Paul Harris Fellow and has served as a board member of Bloomington Club of Rotary International and its Foundation, and is a Fellow with the Illinois Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation.
Mr. Hinch is also the 2020 president of the board of directors for the McLean County Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Advocate Healthcare Foundation board for Advocate BroMenn and Advocate Eureka Medical Centers. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Parklands Foundation, a nature conservancy with holdings of more than 1,500 acres in McLean and Woodford Counties and as chairman of the board of elders for his local church. He volunteers pro bono work and has helped with fundraising support for a variety of charitable organizations in McLean County, most recently including Prairie State Legal Services, the Immigration Project, Lawyers for the Creative Arts, the Boy Scouts of America, the Boys and Girls Club. He lives in Bloomington, Illinois with his wife Sarah and their three children.
Nathan is the author of the Hinch Law Blog, at www.hinchlaw.blogspot.com and can be followed on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/HinchLaw ), Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter ( @nathanhinch ). He can also be found at www.mrh-law.com .
Community Supervised Non-Custodial Visitation Facilitator
maureen schiller
Please be advised that Maureen Schiller, of Bloomington, IL, will be assuming the position of Community Supervised Non-Custodial Visitation Facilitator from retiring Marie McCurdy, LCSW, ICDUP. The Children’s Home & Aid Family Visitation Center will continue to schedule services for clients with Orders of Protection and who are not involved with the Child Welfare System. Maureen, a National Certified Guardian, has extensive experience in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in guardianship matters, as well as court processes and reporting requirements. As our community opens up, Maureen will begin scheduling through the Children’s Home and Aid Family Visitation Center but will also be accepting other cases where the Visitation Center is not involved.
For more information, she may be contacted at maureenschiller@gmail.com or (309)242-1437.
For more information, she may be contacted at maureenschiller@gmail.com or (309)242-1437.
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Over the last ten years, Immigration Project has helped over 500 Lawful Permanent Residents to naturalize-be sworn in as U.S. citizenship! We would love your assistance in conducting legal eligibility screenings and in completing appropriate USCIS forms. We will provide training. Spanish is not required, though helpful for about a quarter of the cases and if necessary we can provide interpreters.
In-house clinics are held on a Thursday or Friday, with legal screenings in the morning, followed by a different team of form-fillers. We really need help with the legal screenings 9am-1pm, but would also love help with form-filling if you wish. (Our next Normal Citizenship Clinics is scheduled for May 15th, but subject to change due to COVID-19.)
We normally have quarterly, Saturday workshops in Monmouth, Springfield, Kankakee, and Normal. Our Monmouth June 6th workshop is still on the schedule. If interested in dedicating your Saturday and/or doing some direct representation on other types of cases, please contact Danielle DeWinter ddewinter@immigrationproject.org .
In-house clinics are held on a Thursday or Friday, with legal screenings in the morning, followed by a different team of form-fillers. We really need help with the legal screenings 9am-1pm, but would also love help with form-filling if you wish. (Our next Normal Citizenship Clinics is scheduled for May 15th, but subject to change due to COVID-19.)
We normally have quarterly, Saturday workshops in Monmouth, Springfield, Kankakee, and Normal. Our Monmouth June 6th workshop is still on the schedule. If interested in dedicating your Saturday and/or doing some direct representation on other types of cases, please contact Danielle DeWinter ddewinter@immigrationproject.org .
mark your calendar
2020
April 8 - Real Estate Committee Meeting - postponed until further notice
April 21 - CLE Luncheon - Rescheduled for July 21
April 24 - Wine Tour - Cancelled
May 8 - Law Day Gala - an evening event - Postponed - more information to come
May 9 - Softball Challenge with Champaign County Bar Association - Pending
July 21 - CLE Luncheon - Collections
October 21-22 - The Guardian Ad Litem Event
November 13-15 - The ISU Invitational Mock Trial Tournament
April 21 - CLE Luncheon - Rescheduled for July 21
April 24 - Wine Tour - Cancelled
May 8 - Law Day Gala - an evening event - Postponed - more information to come
May 9 - Softball Challenge with Champaign County Bar Association - Pending
July 21 - CLE Luncheon - Collections
October 21-22 - The Guardian Ad Litem Event
November 13-15 - The ISU Invitational Mock Trial Tournament
2020 BLOOMINGTON CANNON ESTATE PLANNING
TELECONFERENCE SERIES PROGRAM
HOSTED BY PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Time: 11:30 am Location: Same
PNC Wealth Management
202 E. Washington St.
2nd Floor Conference Room
Bloomington, IL 61701
PNC Wealth Management
202 E. Washington St.
2nd Floor Conference Room
Bloomington, IL 61701
1.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education Credit will be earned for attendance at each call.
A certificate of attendance will be given to each participant.
A certificate of attendance will be given to each participant.
As part of PNC’s ongoing effort to protect the health of our employees, customers and business partners from the potential impacts of the Coronavirus, we will be canceling the April 2nd Cannon teleconference. We have been in contact with Cannon Financial Institute to see if there is a way to offer CLE credit, where you are able to access the program from your home or office. Should this current health climate stretch into May, we will work toward being able to do that. So stay tuned…..
Jennifer Julius Administrative Assistant - jennifer.julius@pnc.com (P) 309-655-5484
PNC Wealth Management, 301 SW Adams, D2-Y701-03-3, Peoria, IL 61602
Jennifer Julius Administrative Assistant - jennifer.julius@pnc.com (P) 309-655-5484
PNC Wealth Management, 301 SW Adams, D2-Y701-03-3, Peoria, IL 61602
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April 2
Powers of Attorney: Not a Walk in the Park April 30 Developing and Keeping Business for Estate Planning and Trust Professionals June 4 The Relationship Among Trust Beneficiaries and Trustees, the IRS and the Courts July 9 Ethics-Based Obligations in Specific Client Engagements August 6 Maximizing Flexibility With Powers of Appointment |
September 3
Picking Up the Pieces: Post-Divorce Planning October 1 Moving the Needle With Your Clients’ Retirement Asset Planning October 29 Contemporary Challenges in Trust Administration December 3 Essential Asset Protection Planning January 7, 2021 Conflicts of Interest Issues Facing Estate Planning Professionals |
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bar committee activities
2020
Board of Governor's Committee Meeting - April 14 12:00 noon
CLE Committee Meeting - April 29 12:00 noon
GAL Committee Meeting - May 13 12:00 noon
Law Day Committee Meeting - May 20 12:00 noon
Board of Governor's Committee Meeting - April 14 12:00 noon
CLE Committee Meeting - April 29 12:00 noon
GAL Committee Meeting - May 13 12:00 noon
Law Day Committee Meeting - May 20 12:00 noon
save the dates
2020
may 9 - softball challenge - pending
SEPTEMBER 26 - LAW DAY GALA.. AN EVENING EVENT
october 21-22 -gal conference
november 13 - 15 - the isu invitational mock trial tournament
MCBA Breakfast with the Bar - postponed until further notice
Remember to have “Breakfast with the Bar” every Friday morning between 8:00 am and 9:00 am. It’s a great way to meet and talk with your fellow attorneys in an informal setting. Stay for 10 minutes and have a cup of coffee or stay for an hour and have a full breakfast before court. Grab an associate, partner or friend and come. See you Friday!
Remember to have “Breakfast with the Bar” every Friday morning between 8:00 am and 9:00 am. It’s a great way to meet and talk with your fellow attorneys in an informal setting. Stay for 10 minutes and have a cup of coffee or stay for an hour and have a full breakfast before court. Grab an associate, partner or friend and come. See you Friday!