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2002 & 2003 ANNUAL REPORT h TOGETHER we are MAKING A DIFFERENCE

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the chicago bar foundation, the charitable arm of the chicago TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT 2 bar association, improves access to justice for people who are WHO WE ARE AND WHO WE HELP 3 impacted by poverty, abuse, and discrimination. HIGHLIGHTS FROM FY 2002 AND 2003 4 our mission is grounded in the belief that access to justice is HOW WE HELP central to our democratic society and that the concerted Supporting Legal Aid Organizations 7 efforts of a few can make a real improvement in the lives Our Grants 8 Organizational Support Grants 9 of many. Projects/Emerging Issues Grants 13 we accomplish our mission by awarding grants and other assistance Special Grants 14 to legal aid and public interest organizations, encouraging the Leadership, Resources and Assistance 15 Helping Ensure a New Generation of Legal Aid Lawyers 16 legal community to contribute time and money, functioning as a Promoting Pro Bono 17 clearinghouse for information and resources, and providing Increasing Access to the Court System For the Public 20 leadership in the community on access to justice issues. Promoting Broader Community Support for Access to Justice 21

HOW YOU HELP The Many Ways that Thousands Support the CBF 25 The Abraham Lincoln Circle of Justice 26 Life Fellows of the CBF 27 Our Many Law Firm and Corporate Supporters 30

OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH 32 OUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS BOARD 34 OUR LEND A HAND PROGRAM 36 OUR BOARD AND STAFF 38 FRIENDS,

Thanks to your generous support, THE established the Leonard Jay Schrager who we are THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION improves access to justice for people CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION completed another Award. The award will be given each who are impacted by poverty, abuse, and discrimination. remarkably successful two years. We all year to an attorney working in academia Our mission is grounded in the belief that access to justice is central to can take pride in the fact that the CBF who, like the award’s namesake, has made our democratic society and that the concerted efforts of a few can make continues to grow by every measure, outstanding contributions to our community. a real improvement in the lives of many. which has allowed us to substantially We were thrilled to receive major gifts increase our support to the legal aid and from Kimball and Karen Anderson, the We accomplish our mission by awarding grants, encouraging the legal public interest law organizations that do late Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, community to contribute time and money, functioning as a clearinghouse such important work in our community. and the Estate of Milton Gray. for information and resources, and providing leadership in the community.

As you read this 2002/2003 Annual Report, Moving forward, your support is more you will see the CBF’s comprehensive important than ever, and every contribution who we help THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION’ S comprehensive access to justice efforts efforts to improve access to justice are —from the $20 CBA dues check off to a help thousands of low-income and disadvantaged residents of the Chicago making a real difference. With your major gift to establish a special fund— area community by enabling them to obtain critical legal information, support, the CBF awarded more than makes a difference. While we have advice and assistance. Through our leadership and support of over forty $500,000 in grants each of the past continued to increase our charitable legal aid and public interest law organizations, our efforts help the most two years to more than 40 legal aid and giving and leadership efforts, the unmet vulnerable members of our community, including: public interest law organizations. We also legal needs of the less fortunate remain expanded our efforts to promote pro daunting. We need everyone’s help to Ł Abused, neglected and otherwise disadvantaged children; bono initiatives and to help ensure a new keep up with the legal aid demands in Ł Woman and children victimized by domestic violence; generation of legal aid lawyers. our great city. Ł Elderly victims of consumer fraud and other abuse; Over the past two years, we completed a I hope you will take a moment to read major strategic planning process that led through this Annual Report to see all the Ł Immigrants (many of them children) seeking political asylum to more effective grant guidelines and great things we are doing at the CBF. after being persecuted in their home countries; procedures and improved fundraising Thanks again for all of your contributions Ł Disabled people fighting for inclusion and independence; programs; launched a new CBF Fellows —together we are truly making a difference Board; and hired a great new associate in the lives of thousands of less fortunate Ł Low-income families struggling against powerful slumlords; director, Leslie Corbett. In addition, the residents in our community. Ł Working poor individuals striving for economic self-sufficiency and; CBF continued to build a broader coalition of supporters by anchoring the Equal Ł Nonprofit community organizations working to improve our Justice Illinois Campaign and partnering neighborhood. with a number of other foundation, corporate, and government funders. EILEEN M. LETTS With the generous support of the lawyers President at Sachnoff & Weaver, the CBF also The Chicago Bar Foundation

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 2-3 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG the late and beloved judge abraham lincoln marovitz left a gift of over $1 million to the cbf, half of which he designated to set up a new scholarship for needy law students interested in pursuing a career in legal aid or public interest law.

highlights Ł Permanent office space In the spring of 2003, the CBF purchased permanent office space on for the CBF the 3rd floor of the CBA building at 321 South Plymouth Court, and we moved into our new home in July. Stop by to see us anytime!

New CBF Website In early 2003, the CBF launched its new website, www.chicagobarfoundation.org. We hope you will find the site to be a good resource for information about the CBF and the many legal aid and public interest law organizations we support. You now can also conveniently donate to the CBF or sign up for one of our popular special events online.

Judge Marovitz leaves The CBF received a gift of over $1 million from the late Judge a major gift for the CBF Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. In accordance with the Judge’s wishes, the CBF will use half of this generous gift to set up a new public interest law scholarship for needy students pursuing a career in legal aid or public interest law. The CBF also set aside a portion of this gift as an endowment for our Lend a Hand Program, which we are transitioning to an independent entity that will be renamed in honor of Judge Marovitz.

New Public Interest With a major contribution from the Anderson family, the Foundation Law Fellowship created the Kimball R. and Karen G. Anderson Public Interest Law Fellowship to help ensure a new generation of outstanding legal aid and public interest lawyers. The Anderson Fellowship will provide

loan repayment assistance to young attorneys who are pursuing legal Ł Ł the late milton gray left a major gift of over leonard schrager, the inspiration for the aid and public interest law careers at a CBF funded organization. $60,000 to the cbf to endow an annual grant leonard jay schrager award of excellence for legal projects to help children and established in 2002, is pictured with cbf Illinois Technology Center for The ITC, an unprecedented collaboration of the CBF, the Lawyers young people. president eileen letts. Law and the Public Interest Trust Fund of Illinois, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and several THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION other legal aid, law school and funding organizations, has received Continued Growth 2000 - 2003 endowment national acclaim and already has become an integral part of the legal THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION aid delivery system in Illinois. We encourage you to check out the ITC’s Record Grants 1999 - 2003 grants $7,000,000 three websites, www.illinoisprobono.org, www.illinoislawhelp.org 6,516 and www.illinoislegalaid.org. The CBF’s contributions for this $600,000 572 6,000,000 5,751 groundbreaking project were made possible by a major gift from 529 5,103 500,000 5,000,000 the Estate of George Brode. 480 4,589 Pro Bono Marketing Project Over the past two years, the CBF launched a successful partnership 400,000 4,000,000 297 with Legal Marketing with the Chicago Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) 300,000 257 3,000,000 Association to provide pro bono marketing assistance and training to local legal aid and public interest law organizations. In the Spring of 2003, the 200,000 2,000,000 LMA’s Chicago Chapter received the Chapter of the Year Award from 100,000 1,000,000 the national Legal Marketing Association in recognition of the success of this project. 0 0 year 99 00 01 02 03 year 00 01 02 03

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 4-5 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG supporting legal THE CBF CARRIES OUT ITS MISSION TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO JUSTICE aid organizations primarily through its strong support of over 40 legal aid and public interest law organizations in the Chicago area. This support takes many forms, including grants, other resources and assistance, and leadership in a number of helpful collaborative initiatives that address common needs and collective challenges facing these organizations.

Over the past two years, the CBF made more than $1 million in grants to legal aid and public interest law organizations serving the Chicago area, highlighted by over $200,000 in grants to the Illinois Technology h Center for Law and the Public Interest. The CBF’s grants generally fall into two basic categories: organizational support grants, which provide critical general operating support for these organizations; and project/emerging issue grants, which fund a number of special projects and initiatives that improve access to justice. The CBF’s FY 2003 grants in these two categories are detailed on the next seven pages of this Report. The CBF’s other special grants in FY 2003, such as the CBF’s HOW fellowships and scholarship awards, are detailed in other relevant sections of this report. Those grants can be found on PAGES 16-19, 35 AND 37.

Beyond their direct impact, the CBF’s grants helped leverage over $1 million in additional support from other funding sources that otherwise WE would not have been available to our grantee organizations. PAGES 21 AND 22 detail the many funding partnerships that enable the CBF to leverage this critical support.

A COMPLETE LIST OF THE CBF’S FY 2002 GRANTS IS AVAILABLE HELP ONLINE AT WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG. h “Many, many thanks to you and to the Board of Directors of the Chicago Bar Foundation. We thank you not only for your long and strong support of CVLS, but also for your energetic and imaginative support of pro bono/legal aid on all fronts. All the time.”

M. Lee Witte, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG chicago bar foundation fy 2003 grants organizational Community Economic Development Law Project (CEDLP) ...... 10,000 support grants CEDLP is dedicated to assisting Chicago’s low-income communities in organizational THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION is committed to providing general fy 2003 generating businesses, jobs, housing and other necessities. CEDLP staff support grants operating support grants for effective, well managed organizations in and volunteer attorneys provide legal services that enable residents to create fy 2003 the Chicago area that the CBF determines are doing important work and improve hundreds of organizations and small businesses that revitalize to improve access to justice for significant numbers of people in our inner-city neighborhoods. (continuation) community who are impacted by poverty, abuse and discrimination. Life Span...... 10,000 Grants in this category are intended to recognize and support the Life Span provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence and important work of the organization in the field of access to justice and their children. The core of Life Span's legal services includes legal advice, information, and representation in all family law matters, such as divorce, to serve as an endorsement for their fundraising efforts. Priority among custody, child support, visitation, removal, and orders of protection. the CBF’s organizational support grants is given to organizations that: Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL) ...... 7,500 A. Provide direct legal services to a significant number of CDEL provides free legal services to the elderly and persons with disabilities through a vast network of volunteer attorneys, paralegals, law students, low-income or indigent clients in a subject area(s) that is and social work students located throughout the Chicago area. Over 600 undeserved by others in Cook County; and attorneys generously donate their time and expertise to assist CDEL clients with their legal needs. B. In relative terms, have a greater need for general operating support from the CBF. Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) ...... 7,500 CLAIM provides legal and educational services to help imprisoned mothers preserve their families. Through public advocacy, CLAIM also promotes policies and programs that benefit families of imprisoned mothers. Coordinated Advice & Referral Program Evanston Community Defender ...... 7,500 for Legal Services (CARPLS)...... 20,000 The Evanston Community Defender is a public/private partnership providing CARPLS is a legal aid hotline that provides advice, information and referral law and social work advocacy to low-income youth in the community. Their services over the telephone to low-income residents of Cook County, Illinois. legal practice involves juvenile and adult court matters as well as administrative Staff and volunteer attorneys provide legal assistance on civil law matters advocacy in special education and school discipline matters. ranging from adoption to zoning to over 15,000 low-income callers annually. Uptown Peoples Law Center...... 7,500 Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) ...... 15,000 The Center focuses its work in the areas of social security/welfare defense and CCR works with individuals, communities, courts and other institutions to education; housing and tenant rights; domestic violence; and prisoner rights. manage and resolve conflicts. Every year CCR provides free mediation services The Center combines grassroots advocacy with creative legal representation in over 2,000 cases, trains hundreds of new mediators, and works with dozens of poor and working people in Uptown and the surrounding communities. of businesses, government agencies and organizations to create custom-designed dispute resolution systems and training programs. Chicago Coalition for the Homeless...... 5,000 The Coalition organizes and advocates to prevent and end homelessness based Chicago Legal Clinic (CLC) ...... 15,000 on the belief that housing is a human right in a just society. The Law Project CLC provides low cost and pro bono legal services to lower income Chicagoans provides civil legal services in select cases that will advance the legal rights in four neighborhood offices. Legal representation is available for family law, and remedies of persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. domestic violence, minor and adult guardianship, social security disability, estates, housing, immigration, and environmental law cases. First Defense ...... 5,000 First Defense offers free, immediate, 24-hour legal representation to anyone Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS)...... 15,000 arrested by Chicago police officers. The program fills the void that exists CVLS volunteers and staff attorneys represent low-income Chicagoans in a because public defenders are unable to represent individuals until after their wide variety of civil matters. Some of the many types of cases they handle are first court appearance. divorce, adult and minor guardianships, adoption, tort defense, collection defense, bankruptcy, and landlord-tenant matters. Last year, approximately 2,000 Lawyers Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) ...... 5,000 volunteers represented more than 10,000 clients. LCBH provides free legal services to poor tenants with a goal of impacting the affordable housing crisis to the greatest extent possible. Today, LCBH Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic (CGLA) ...... 10,000 serves nearly 3,000 tenants from all over Chicago each year on the various CGLA provides free legal services in the areas of housing, family and criminal legal issues relating to their housing. law to low-income people in the City of Chicago, with preference given to the Cabrini Green community.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 8-9 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG organizational Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA) ...... 5,000 organizational Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County (CASA) . . . . . 2,500 support grants LCA provides pro bono legal services to individuals and organizations in the arts. support grants CASA advocates for the best interest of abused and neglected children within fy 2003 LCA advises artists and arts organizations in the full array of legal areas they fy 2003 the court system in cases where they are assigned by the juvenile court. CASA encounter such as copyright and trademark issues; contracts of all kinds for their recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who work in collaboration products and services; landlord/tenant and other personal issues such as collection with the key players in the juvenile court system. of money due to them; immigration issues; and dispute resolution. Equip for Equality...... 2,500 (continuation) (continuation) Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center (MIHRC) ...... 5,000 Equip for Equality strives to advance the human and civil rights of people MIHRC serves low and moderate-income immigrants in the Midwest, without with disabilities in Illinois. It is the only comprehensive statewide advocacy regard to legal status. Through a network of staff and volunteer attorneys, organization providing self-advocacy assistance, legal services, education, MIHRC provides comprehensive immigration legal services, including immigrant and public policy initiatives. visas, deportation defense and political asylum representation. Farmworker Advocacy Project ...... 2,500 Midwest Center for the Law & the Deaf (MCLD) ...... 5,000 The Farmworker Advocacy Project provides outreach, education and legal MCLD helps deaf and hard of hearing people find attorneys willing to provide assistance to migrant agricultural and horticultural workers laboring in accessible legal services. MCLD assists attorneys in providing sign language Cook County, Illinois and other nearby counties. interpreters, real-time captioning, and any other modes of communication necessary for them to communicate with deaf and hard-of-hearing clients and Health & Disability Advocates (HDA) ...... 2,500 advocates for the rights of deaf persons in the justice system. HDA provides direct legal services to children with disabilities and their families in selected cases and provides training and materials for families. World Relief-Chicago ...... 5,000 HDA has three main program areas: Children, Youth & Families with World Relief-Chicago provides legal services to low-income immigrant families Disabilities; Workforce Development for People with Disabilities; and on a variety of immigration issues, including family reunification and work Access to Health Care for People with Special Health Care Needs. authorization. Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) ...... 2,500 Access Living ...... 2,500 ICIRR is a membership organization composed of more than 110 agencies. Access Living uses the legal system to further its mission of independent living. ICIRR educates and organizes immigrant and refugee communities to assert They provide free legal representation to people who have been discriminated their rights and understand their responsibilities; promotes citizenship and against on the basis of disability in housing, public accommodations, government civic participation; monitors and analyzes immigrant-related issues, and programs, health care, and other services and programs. informs the general public about the immigration issues.

AIDS Legal Council ...... 2,500 John Howard Association ...... 2,500 The AIDS Legal Council of Chicago exists to preserve, promote and protect the The John Howard Association is the only advocacy group in Illinois that legal rights of men, women and children in the metropolitan Chicago area living maintains access to and routinely conducts inspections in adult and youth with HIV/AIDS. The Council provides direct legal services to people in need, correctional facilities. The CBF funds John Howard’s Juvenile Justice educates the public about HIV-related legal issues and advocates for policies Reform Initiative, which aims to improve the treatment of and the confinement that ensure fair treatment for all people with HIV/AIDS. conditions of youth accused of criminal acts; to increase the number and range of community-based correctional options; and to bring Illinois into Asian Human Services ...... 2,500 compliance with the requirements of the federal Juvenile Justice and Asian Human Services offers direct legal services to primarily low-income Asian Delinquency Prevention Act. immigrants, refugees and their families in the areas of personal well-being and family law. These areas include immigration law, consumer issues, divorce, child Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities ...... 2,500 custody, housing, employment, and public assistance. The Legal Action program of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities provides free investigations Centro Romero ...... 2,500 and legal services to those who may have experienced discrimination in their Centro Romero is a community-based organization on Chicago’s North Side search for housing (rentals or home purchases), home loans, or other real that serves Spanish-speaking immigrants and refugees. Legal services are a estate-related services. In addition, the Council regularly monitors area real critical part of their interrelated supportive service programs that also include estate and lending practices. adult education, women’s empowerment projects and youth learning and leadership. Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services ...... 2,500 Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law . . . . . 2,500 The Legal Aid Bureau provides legal assistance to families who cannot afford The Lawyers’ Committee is a non-profit law and advocacy organization focused a private attorney. Clients receive critical family law services at the Legal Aid on civil rights work. Their mission is to promote and protect the civil rights of Bureau, ranging from brief service and advice to full litigation. poor, minority, and disadvantaged people in order to facilitate their participation in the social, economic, and political systems of our community and nation.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 10-11 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG project/emerging organizational Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAFMC) ...... 2,500 CARPLS...... 15,000 support grants LAFMC is the largest organization in Chicago and suburban Cook County issue grants (for support of Pro Se Post-Decree Divorce Desk project) fy 2003 providing free civil legal services to individuals and families unable to afford fy 2003 DePaul College of Law ...... legal counsel. LAFMC’s goal is to ensure that every low-income individual 15,000 (for project to provide legal information and assistance to Chicago area and family in Chicago and Cook County receives equal justice under the law. immigration agencies) Pro Bono Advocates ...... 2,500 (continuation) (continuation) Community Economic Development Law Project ...... 10,000 Pro Bono Advocates provides free legal services and referrals to low-income (for small business education program with Jane Addams Hull House Cook County residents who have been subjected to domestic violence to help and Center for Economic Progress for immigrant communities) them achieve safety from abusive relationships. Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center...... 10,000 Roger Baldwin Foundation ...... 2,500 (for CBA/MIHRC Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Pro Bono Project) The Roger Baldwin Foundation is the litigation arm of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. Their cases raise issues of freedom of religion, Chicago Legal Clinic ...... 10,000 police practices, education, and discrimination. The CBF’s funding supports (for support of pro se assistance desk for people faced with foreclosure suits) their Children’s Initiative. Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice ...... 5,000 TOTAL: $ 200,000 (to support collaborative project to encourage,coordinate and support statewide initiatives to improve access to justice in Illinois)

Illinois Equal Justice Foundation ...... 5,000 project/emerging Through its PROJECT/ EMERGING ISSUE GRANTS, in large part made (for staff support for entity that distributes state funds for legal aid and issue grants possible by a major gift from the Estake of George Brode, the access to justice initiatives) fy 2003 CBF provides significant financial support for projects and Prairie State Legal Services ...... 5,000 initiatives that: (for support of statewide legal aid advocates conference)

A. Address systemic barriers to access to justice by improving Prevent Child Abuse Illinois ...... 5,000 the overall system of justice or enhancing the overall legal (for support of Juvenile Justice conference) aid delivery structure; and/or Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago ...... 5,000 (for support of juvenile court pro se guardianship project) B. Tackle emerging issues in the realm of access to justice (e.g., addressing gaps in the legal aid delivery system, fostering Equal Justice Illinois Campaign ...... 5,000 (for support of campaign to raise awareness for increased state funding innovative approaches to increasing access to justice). of legal aid)

Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice...... 2,500 (to reprint a Fifth edition of the Tenant/Landlord Handbook) Illinois Technology Center for Law and Public Interest ...... 100,000 (for support of groundbreaking web-based technology project to Public Interest Law Initiative ...... 2,500 improve access to justice) (to support the Pro Bono Initiative)

Chicago Volunteer Legal Services ...... 20,000 Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation ...... 1,000 (for support of Pro Se Guardianship Assistance Desk project) (for support of pro bono project in Cook County Juvenile Court)

Consumer Law Education Project ...... 18,000 Loyola University Medical Center ...... 1,000 (for development of brochure to educate low-income consumers about (for support of Maybrook Children’s Waiting Room) various legal issues relating to purchase and ownership of used cars) TOTAL: $245,000 CARPLS...... 3,000 CBA Consumer Law Project...... 3,000 Chicago Volunteer Legal Services...... 3,000 Illinois Technology Center for Law and Public Interest . . . . 3,000 Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago . . . . . 3,000 National Center on Poverty Law ...... 3,000

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 12-13 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG other special In addition to its Projects/Emerging Issues Grants, the CBF leadership, Because the CBF’s work involves a broad range of legal issues affecting grants fy 2003 occasionally makes OTHER SPECIAL GRANTS during the year for resources low-income and vulnerable residents, the CBF targets significant various purposes. Some of these grants (for Public Interest and assistance resources towards broad-based initiatives that help all legal aid and Law Fellowships, Internships and Scholarships; Pro Bono public interest organizations. The CBF also occasionally focuses on a and Awards; Young Professionals Board; and Lend a Hand particular legal problem in circumstances where targeting the CBF’s Program) are noted elsewhere in this Report. Other special resources can improve the situation. Two highlights of these efforts are: CBF grants in FY 2003 include: The Illinois Coalition for The CBF continues to work with the CBA and other stakeholders to Equal Justice advance the mission of the Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice. With Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services ...... 10,000 the assistance of the CBF, the Coalition was organized jointly by the (special Robertson fund grant) CBA and ISBA in 2001 to bring together diverse stakeholders in the State to coordinate, support and encourage statewide initiatives that Lewis Grant ...... 2,500 (for CBA Wolf Fund) increase access to justice in Illinois. The CBF serves as the home for the Coalition and provides staff support for the Coalition and several Illinois Channel ...... 1,500 of its initiatives. The Coalition’s members are broadly representative (for support of legal aid and public interest law programming) of various stakeholders in the equal justice community, including bar Giving Greater Chicago ...... 1,500 leaders, legal services providers, judges, executive branch officials, (for support of initiative to increase individual charitable giving) legislators, court personnel, mediation service providers, law school Our Children in the Courts Foundation ...... 1,000 faculty, representatives of local government, funders and social (in memory of Larry Kay) service providers. The federal Legal Services Corporation has now designated Illinois as a model state for access to justice initiatives, in Stevens Award ...... 1,000 (to support Justice Stevens Awards Dinner) large part due to the Coalition’s success in bringing the community together on these issues. TOTAL: $17,500 The Illinois Task Force One specific issue the CBF has focused on over the past year is the on Unaccompanied appalling lack of protections for unaccompanied immigrant children, Immigrant Children a largely hidden but highly vulnerable population in our community. Unaccompanied immigrant children are presently not guaranteed even the most basic due process protections that we take for granted in all other cases, and too often in the past, they have not even been treated with basic dignity while their cases are pending. In partnership with the CBA and the , the CBF has become one of the anchors of the Illinois Task Force on Unaccompanied Immigrant “CARPLS truly appreciates the continued financial support of the Chicago Children, established by the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Bar Foundation as well as the guidance your staff provides the community.” Center (MIHRC) in 1999 to address the complex needs facing this vulnerable population. This effort involves recruiting pro bono attorneys to represent children, local advocacy with the courts and the Department Al Schwartz, Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services (CARPLS) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Homeland Security, and a national legislative effort that the CBA has been actively supporting for the past two years.

The CBA and CBF have received national recognition for their efforts to increase protections for unaccompanied immigrant children. Among other things, the ABA again awarded a special grant to the CBF to support MIHRC and the Task Force in recognition of our effective work on these issues.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 14-15 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG helping ensure a Approximately 200 outstanding attorneys who have chosen to dedicate promoting PROMOTING PRO BONO in the legal community is another core part of the new generation of their careers to helping the less fortunate are the backbone of the more pro bono CBF’s strategy to carry out its mission. We encourage and support pro legal aid lawyers than forty legal aid and public interest law organizations the CBF bono in a variety of ways, highlighted by our annual Pro Bono and supports. While these organizations also depend on hundreds of other Public Service Awards Luncheon. Now a signature event in the legal key staff members and thousands of pro bono volunteers, access to community, the Luncheon is a premier setting for presentation of the justice for the most vulnerable members of our community hinges on CBA and CBF’s prestigious pro bono and public service awards. the commitment and expertise of the dedicated attorneys who staff The CBF also continues to operate the Volunteer Support Program, the front lines of our justice system. which matches volunteer attorneys with pro bono opportunities Unfortunately, young lawyers increasingly are finding themselves that fit their interests and schedule. The CBF also is a partner in unable to pursue careers in legal aid or public interest law because it several initiatives to improve and increase pro bono, including is simply economically untenable. Lawyers graduating today have an www.illinoisprobono.org, the Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice average of nearly $80,000 in law school debt (a figure that is rising and the Public Interest Law Initiative’s Pro Bono Initiative. rapidly each year), while starting salaries in the legal aid and public Ł kimball and interest law field average a relatively static $36,000. This problem is karen anderson becoming more and more dire as today’s legal aid leaders are beginning generously endowed the kimball r. and karen g. to near retirement age—how will we as a community ensure that a anderson fellowship with a $100,000 gift to new generation of legal aid lawyers will be there to anchor our justice help young attorneys system? pursuing a career in legal aid or public interest law. Given this alarming dynamic, the CBF has made addressing this issue one of its main priorities. Our efforts on this issue are highlighted by the new Anderson Fellowship for loan repayment assistance (see photo insert); the Moses Scholarship and the new Marovitz scholarship, which both will provide substantial scholarships for students who want to pursue careers in legal aid or public interest law; our grants to Equal Justice Works, which provide funding for two-year fellowships that focus on particular access to justice issues; and our support of the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI), which support summer internships for law students in public interest law agencies.

fellowship Equal Justice Works ...... 26,000 and scholarship (for support of Equal Justice Works Fellowship at Midwest Immigrant grants fy 2003 and Human Rights Center to Monitor and advocate for rights of detained immigrants)

Public Interest Law Initiative ...... 20,000 (for support of four public interest internships)

Moses Grant ...... 10,000 (to Law School for public interest law

student scholarship) Ł cbf president eileen letts and cba president jennifer nijman congratulate TOTAL: $56,000 the 2003 pro bono & public service award winners. from left, pictured are ron staudt, christine farrell, howard rosenbloom, eileen letts, marshall hartman, pauline levy and jennifer nijman.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 16-17 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG cbf pro bono CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING pro bono award Thomas H. Morsch Award ...... 10,000 & public service CORPORATE COUNSEL AWARD grants fy 2003 (to Marshall Hartman) awards fy 2002 Mary Ann O’Connor Schrager Award...... 3,500 Vice President & Counsel, Bank One Corporation (to IL Technology Center project in honor of Ronald Staudt)

MAURICE WEIGLE EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG LAWYER AWARD Weigle Award ...... 3,000 Melissa L. Rabel (to Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic in honor of Christine Farrell) Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon Weigle Award ...... 1,000 EDWARD J. LEWIS II PRO BONO SERVICE AWARD (to Christine Farrell) Daniel R. Sanders National Equal Justice Library ...... 1,000 Sole Practitioner (in honor of Marshall Hartman) Lawrence C. Marshall Midwest Center on Law and the Deaf...... 1,000 Northwestern University School of Law (in honor of Howard Rosenblum)

Alan L. Goldman Public Interest Law Initiative ...... 1,000 Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (in honor of Pauline Levy)

THOMAS H. MORSCH PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD TOTAL: $20,500 Margaret C. Benson Deputy Director, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services

cbf pro bono THE CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING & public service CORPORATE COUNSEL AWARD awards fy 2003 Pauline Levy Managing Counsel, McDonald’s Corporation

MAURICE WEIGLE EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG LAWYER AWARD “Your leadership and support of Heartland Alliance’s Midwest Immigrant & Christine Farrell Human Rights Center (MIHRC) continues to inspire us and makes a dramatic Director of Housing Program, Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic difference in the lives of our clients by helping to ensure that they receive the LEONARD JAY SCHRAGER AWARD OF EXCELLENCE legal representation necessary to ensure fundamental due process rights. Ronald Staudt Your commitment to the people we serve has been essential to protecting the Associate Vice President Law, Business & Technology, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law lives of hundreds of men, women, and children who flee persecution each year.” EDWARD J. LEWIS II PRO BONO SERVICE AWARD Howard Rosenblum Senior Attorney, Equip for Equality Mary Meg McCarthy, MIHRC DIRECTOR THOMAS H. MORSCH PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD Marshall Hartman Director, Capital Litigation Division, Office of the State Appellate Defender

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 18-19 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG increasing access MAKING THE COURT SYSTEM MORE ACCESSIBLE AND USER- FRIENDLY for promoting broader THE CBF’ S MISSION TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO JUSTICE for the most to the court system pro se litigants is an integral part of the CBF’s comprehensive approach community support vulnerable members of our community recognizes the special obligation for the public to improving access to justice. Some highlights of the CBF’s efforts in for access to of attorneys to be leaders in the effort to ensure equal access to our this regard over the past two years follow below. Justice justice system. And while the legal community’s financial and pro bono contributions are more important than ever today, the CBF also Promotion of The CBF for years has been a leader in the development of pro se recognizes that ensuring equal access to justice ultimately is a broader assistance programs to help people unable to obtain legal assistance Pro Se Assistance Desks social responsibility. For this reason, leadership in the effort to build successfully navigate the system on their own. Over the past two years, in the Courts broader community support for legal aid and other access to justice the CBF continued to provide funding and other assistance to several initiatives is an integral part of how we carry out our mission. partners to work with the Circuit Court of Cook County to provide assistance to self-represented litigants in various divisions of the court. The CBF plays an active role in Donors Forum of Chicago and the These projects include the Guardianship for Minors Assistance Desk broader philanthropic community, partnering with a number of other (overseen by Chicago Volunteer Legal Services) and the Post-Decree foundations, corporations, academic institutions and government entities Domestic Relations Assistance Desk (operated by CARPLS). In 2003, to further its access to justice initiatives. One of the centerpieces of the in an effort to address the many problems caused by a recent explosion CBF’s efforts in this regard is our leadership in the Equal Justice in mortgage foreclosure filings, the CBF worked with the Chicago Legal Illinois Campaign—highlighted on the next two pages—a joint project Clinic, the Circuit Court and other partners to establish a new pro se to educate our government leaders and other policy makers about the advice desk for people facing foreclosure cases in the Chancery Division. importance of adequately funding legal aid as a critical social service. Some of the CBF’s other successful funding partnerships the past two www.illinoishelp.org One of the three websites operated by the Illinois Technology For the years include: Law and Public Interest is www.illinoislawhelp.org, which provides user-friendly information, resources and assistance for the public. The Ł The CBF and the Lawyers Trust Fund’s partnership with the Illinois site has grown dramatically over the past two years with significant funding Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, the federal Legal and assistance from the CBF. Features of the site include multimedia Services Corporation, the Illinois Community Technology Fund and others informational trainings and comprehensive “guide me” modules to help on the Illinois Technology Center for Law and the Public Interest. low-income residents with common legal problems such as landlord/ Ł Our partnership with Cook County for the Minor Guardianship tenant and consumer matters. Assistance Desk to assist pro se guardianship litigants in the Circuit Providing Other The CBF worked with the CBA Young Lawyers Section (YLS) and with Court of Cook County. User-Friendly Resources local legal aid and public interest law organizations to develop several Ł The CBF’s collaboration with Equal Justice Works (through funding from for the Public user-friendly resources for low-income people facing common legal the Joyce Foundation and the Open Society Institute) for a fellowship to problems. These resources are available on www.illinoislawhelp.org provide monitoring and legal assistance for detained immigrants in the and in print, and include: Chicago area. Ł A comprehensive guide for people covering the various legal issues that arise when buying and owning a used car, which unfortunately is a very common area for exploitation of low-income and vulnerable consumers. Thanks to a number of successful funding Ł A basic guide for people facing mortgage foreclosures about their rights and obligations and available resources to help them. This guide was partnerships with other foundations, a collaborative effort between the CBF, John Marshall Law School’s Fair Housing Clinic, and the CBA Young Lawyers Section. universities, corporations and government

Ł A new version of the YLS “Where to Go for Legal Assistance” guide, entities, the CBF was able to leverage over prepared in conjunction with the CBA Young Lawyers Section. $1 million in additional support for its access to justice initiatives.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 20-21 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG promoting broader Ł Our partnership with Boeing on projects to establish a pro se assistance Through their generous support of the community support desk for foreclosure defendants in the Cook County Circuit Court and for access to to provide legal workshops and other assistance to small business CBF and other access to justice efforts, Justice entrepreneurs in Chicago’s low-income communities. the legal community in the Chicago area Ł The CBF and the Lawyers Trust Fund’s partnership with the Polk Bros. Foundation and DePaul University College of Law for a project each year donates several million dollars (continuation) to provide legal support and technical assistance for several community based immigrant service organizations. in direct financial support and the equivalent

Ł Our partnership with the American Bar Association’s Commission on of tens of millions of dollars in pro bono Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono to support the work of the services, but government and other private Illinois Task Force on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children. The Equal Justice The Equal Justice Illinois Campaign is a broad based effort to educate sources must do their share for us to Illinois Campaign our government leaders and other policymakers about the need for achieve the ideal of equal access to justice increased funding of legal aid in Illinois. In the face of a huge unmet need for legal aid in our State, Illinois ranks last among the top 10 most for all of our residents. populous states in legal aid funding, providing just $490,000 compared

to an average of $6.1 million among other large states (see chart on FY 2003 opposite page). The Campaign provides educational and advocacy STATE LEGISLATIVE FUNDING OF CIVIL LEGAL AID FOR THE POOR, support for the legislative efforts of the Chicago Bar Association and TEN MOST POPULOUS STATES (in millions of dollars) the Illinois State Bar Association to increase the State’s appropriation NEW JERSEY / 12M for the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, premised on four core CALIFORNIA / 10M messages: FLORIDA / 9.2M Ł Everyone deserves equal access to justice, regardless of their income. Our nation was founded upon this fundamental principle. PENNSYLVANIA / 6.4M

Ł Legal Aid is a critical social service. / 6.3M

Ł Illinois’ legal aid system is severely underfunded, and the State needs OHIO / 5.9M to do its share. TEXAS / 5.5M Ł Legal aid saves taxpayer money by reducing the need for costly NEW YORK / 3.1M governmental services and increasing the efficiency of our court system. GEORGIA / 2.2M FUNDING PARTNERS FOR CAMPAIGN:

Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois ADM ILLINOIS / 490,000 Joyce Foundation Illinois Bar Foundation AVERAGE / 6.1M Chicago Community Trust Beidler Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 22-23 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG the many ways None of the CBF’s comprehensive efforts you have read about thousands elsewhere in this report would be possible without the generous support the cbf support of thousands of donors—you make it all possible! The CBF is solid proof of the old adage that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. By pooling the resources and expertise of thousands of dedicated supporters, the CBF is able to efficiently carry out its comprehensive mission far more effectively than any individual or entity could acting alone.

There are a variety of ways that you can become part of the CBF team h (including donating online at www.chicagobarfoundation.org), and every single contribution makes a real difference. Among the ways you can support the CBF are:

Ł The Lincoln Circle of Justice (see page 26)

Ł The CBF Life Fellows (see page 27) HOW Ł The CBF’s outstanding special events Ł The CBF Holiday Appeal

Ł Other individual contributions

Ł Tribute and Memorial Gifts

YOU Ł The CBA Bar Dues Check Off

Ł A variety of Law Firm and Corporate Sponsorships

Ł Gifts of Stock HELP Ł Major Gifts, Planned Giving and Special CBF Funds Read on for more details, and for more information please call the CBF any time at (312) 554-1204 or visit our website, h www.chicagobarfoundation.org.

cbaŁ 1st vice president michael k. demetrio and his son patrick enjoy the cbf’s 2002 fall benefit at the field museum.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG cbf abraham lincoln The venerable Abraham Lincoln left many exemplary legacies for our THE CBF’ S LIFE FELLOWS are a distinguished group of attorneys and other dedicated circle of justice City, State and Nation that continue to inspire us today. None of these supporters of equal access to justice who, over the past forty years, have made a legacies was more significant than his unwavering commitment to equal substantial contribution to the CBF’s efforts to improve access to justice for the access to justice. most vulnerable members of our community.

The CBF inaugurated THE LINCOLN CIRCLE to increase our capacity Currently, the minimum level for becoming a new Life Fellow is $2,500, which can to secure justice for the less fortunate in our community for years to be payable over up to ten years. come. The Lincoln Circle honors the commitment of Illinois’ most A list of our over 500 Life Fellows is attached. For more information on becoming prominent lawyer to equal access to justice. The members of the a Life Fellow, please contact the CBF at (312) 554-1204 or visit our website at Lincoln Circle carry on that legacy by contributing $10,000 or more, www.chicagobarfoundation.org. or making a pledge for such a contribution that is payable over up to ten years. life fellows A list of the inaugural members of the Lincoln Circle follows below. For information about becoming a member of the Lincoln Circle, Charles Aaron* Stuart Bernstein George Cermak* Charles Davis G. Marshall Abbey Eugene Bernstein* Hammond Chaffetz* Muller Davis please call the CBF at (312) 554-1204. David Acker Jack Bierig David Chernoff Michael Davis Albin Ahlberg* Michael Bilandic* Myron Cherry Peggy Davis INAUGURAL MEMBERS OF LINCOLN CIRCLE Katherine Cook Anagost* Peter Birnbaum Robert Clifford Arthur Decio Geoffrey Anderson Frank Bixby Gordon Close* Walter Deffenbaugh* Kimball and Karen Anderson Milton Gray* Kimball Anderson Samuel Block* Michael Coffield Thomas Demetrio Aurora Austriaco Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr. Nina Appel Charles Boand Lewis Collens Michael Demetrio Bill Boies David and Marie Hopkins Charles Arado Patricia Bobb George Collins Morton Denlow George Brode* Eileen Letts Chloe Arlan William Bodman* Jeffrey Colman Clarence Denning* Leo Arnstein* David Bogan Horace Condit* John Devery* David and Loren Chernoff Nancy Lyon Ronald Aronberg Wilber Boies Vincent Connelly Anthony DiGrazia* Jeffrey Colman and Nancy Loeb Judge Abraham Lincoln Harry Ash Robert Bonges James Connelly* James Dooley Kevin Durkin Marovitz* Lester Asher* Thomas Boodell* Nicholas Constantine* James Douglas R. William Austin Thomas Boodell, Jr. Robert Cooney, Jr.* James Dowdall Bob and Robin Glaves Eric Schaal Edwin Austin* Reuben Borsch Philip Corboy Robert Downing Leonard and Joyce Schrager Aurora Austriaco John Box Joan Corboy* Robert Drake* William Avery* W. David Braun Philip Corboy, Jr. Anne Draznin Robert Emmett Bailey Richard Brennan George Cotsirilos Ronald Drozdzik Ernest Ballard* Patricia Glaves Frank Covey, Jr. Ronald Drozdzik J. Laurence Barasa* Broadbridge Mark Crane Joseph DuCanto Morton Barnard* Dan Broadhurst Martin Crane* F. Ellen Duff Roger Barrett George Brode, Sr.* Winfield Craven* Stuart Duhl “The Chicago Bar Foundation’s fervent support over the years has meant a Harold Barron Isidore Brown Phillip Crihfield Kevin Durkin William Bauer Jeanne Browna Thomas Cronin* Percy Eckhart* great deal to us and we look forward to continuing our partnership to bring Forrest Bayard* Warren Buckley John Crowley* Alvin Edelman justice to those in need.” Bruce Becker Russell Bundesen* James Culbertson* Howard Edmonds Michael Beemer George Burditt Richard Culver Thomas Edmonds* Brigitte Bell Kenneth Burgess* Walter Cummings* Donald Egan* Edward Grossman, Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc. Dennis Bell* Mary Ellen Cagney John Cusak, Sr.* Stanton Ehrlich EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Joel Bellows William Campbell, Jr. Paul Cutler* Morton Elden* Laurel Bellows Jay Canel Charles Cutling* David Ellis Perry Berke Kenneth Caniglia John Daley Howard Ellis* Morris Berkson* Louis Yager Cantwell Andrew Dallstream* Alex Elson Myles "Mush" Berman Robert Cantwell, III Oscar D'Angelo* James William Elwin, Jr. Marvin Berman Leo Carlin* Jules Dashow William Emery Robert Berner Howard Carlton Louis Davidson* Tala Engel H. Bruce Bernstein Alfred Carton* Benjamin Davis Paul Episcope *Became member through posthumous contribution *Deceased

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 26-27 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG life fellows (continuation) life fellows (continuation)

Saul Epton* Irving Goldberg Dorothy Johnson Elizabeth Lewis David Missner Richard Phelan Joseph Schneider Thomas Sullivan Bernard Epton* Max Goldberg* Marie Bellamy Johnson Nicholas Limperis* John Moelmann* Hyman Pierce* Leonard Jay Schrager John Sullivan Jerome Ettelson Ruth Goldman Voyle Clark Johnson William J. Linklater C. Barry Montgomery George Platz, III Marilyn Schramm Louis Swidler* Roberta Evans John Golosinec* Edward Johnston Ben Liss* Kenneth Montgomery* Bert Pollak* David Schulman Bruno Tabis, Jr. Sharon Fabian Philip Goodman* Horace Jordan Carl Lloyd* Robert Montgomery, Jr. Henry Pollenz* Stanton Schuman Robert Tarnoff Allen Fagel Irvin Goodman* Jack Joseph Glen Lloyd* John Moore Herbert Pope* John Schwartz Dean Terrill* Ward Farnsworth George Gordon Herman Kabaker* John Lord* John Morris Conrad Popenhusen* Joseph Schwartz Lucia Thomas* Roger Fein Milton Gray* Nat Kahn* John Lowrey Norval Morris Theodore Postel* Barnabas Sears* Robert Thomas* Marvin Fenchel Jack Greenberg Richard Kahn* Donald Lubin John Morrison* Albert Potts* Glenn Seidenfeld, Jr. Floyd Thompson* S. Richard Fine Frank Greenberg* John Kahoun Arthur Ludolph* Dennis Morrissey Joseph Power, Jr. John Sembower* Ann Tighe Sheldon Fink Jean Grommes Feehan Aubrey Kaplan Barbara Lundergan Thomas Morsch Richard Prendergast Channing Sentz* Joseph Tobias Joseph Fink Edward Grossman Thomas Karaba Warren Lupel Walter Moses* Paul Pretzel* Peter Sfikas Philip Tone* Frederick Fischel* Philip Hablutzel Frank Karaba* Jacqueline Lustig Walter Moses, Jr.* Kenneth Prince Milton Shadur Rene Torrado, Jr. Milton Fisher Nancy Hablutzel Gary Karch Nancy Lyon Nicholas Motherway Magnus Prioleau Michael Shaw* Howard Trienens Abraham Fishman* Daniel Hales John Keleher Eric Macey Jusitce Mozart Nicholas Pritzker* Lloyd Shefsky Donald Trumbull* Morgan Fitch, Jr. Tom Hallverson Charles Kelly Frank Madden Morrie Much Thomas Quinn Roger Sherman* Patrick Tuite Arnold Flamm* Dolores Hanna Edward Kelly* David Maher Francis Patrick Murphy James Rankin Thomas Shields Thomas Tully James Flannery William Harte George Kelm* John Malone Terrence Murphy Gerald Ratner Wallace Shirra* Scott Turow Joel Flaum Allen Hartman Donald Kempf, Jr. David Mann Lowell Myers Mary Hutchings Reed Bridget Shovlin* Frank Uriell* Charles Fleck Otis Hastings* Thomas Kennedy John Mannix, Jr. Holly Myers Edward Reicin Arnold Shure* J. Vail* Richard Fleisher John Hayes* W. McNeil Kennedy* Ronald Marmer Gerald Myers* William Remus William Sidley* Anton Valukas Kevin Forde Thomas Hayward, Jr. Matthew Kennelly James Marovitz Norman Nachman* Don Reuben Jack Siegel James Velde Janice Forde Patrick Head John Kennelly Abraham Marovitz* Irving Naiburg* C. Harker Rhodes, Jr.* John Simon Edwin Wade Theodore Forsberg* Keith Hebeisen Dorothy Kinnaird Prentice Marshall, Jr. Willis Nance Leonard Ring* Seymour Simon Norman Waite, Jr. Frank Fowle* Victor Hedberg* Weynouth Kirkland* Mary Anne Mason Robert Napleton Linda Rio Drennan Slater* C. Ives Waldo, Jr. Etha Beatrice Fox John Held, Jr. Sanford Kirsh* Joseph Mathewson Roscoe Nash* Egbert Robinson* Leo Smith John Waldron* Clarence Fox* Mark Hellner James Kissel* Frank Mayer Gordon Nash, Jr. Larry Rogers, Sr. Douglas Smith* Bernard Wall Paul Freehling Robert Helman James Kissell* Edwin Mayer Bernard Nath* R. Newton Rooks* Susan Snow Herbert Wander Herbert Fried* J. Gordon Henry Evan Kjellenberg Frederick Mayer Emory Naylor, Jr. Louis Rosen John Snyder Dan Webb Isidore Fried* Harry Hershenson Franklin Klein* Isaac Mayer* Earl Neal Sheli Rosenberg Perry Snyderman Alban Weber Herbert Friedlich* David Hilliard Harold Klingner* Jeremiah McAuliffe Gerald Neal Michael Rosenthal Cyril Soans Eugene Wedoff Sidney Frisch Joseph Hinshaw Lawrence Kotin* Maura Ann McBreen Mary Neff* Samuel Rosenthal* Jerold Solovy Maurice Weigle* Adolph Froelich* Austin Hirsch Lawrence Kotin* David McBride Jane Newcomb Soloman Rosenzweig* Hugo Sonnenschein* William Weinsheimer Perry Fuller Barnet Hodes* Howard Koven* John McCarthy* Donald Nolan J. Thompson Ross, Jr. Hugo Sonnenschein, Jr.* George Weisbard* Leonard Gail John Hoellen* Lloyd Kupferberg Judith McCue John Notz, Jr. Claude Roth* Morris Spector Jerome Weiss David Galowich Albert Hofeld Walter Kurczewski Howard McCue III Robert Nye Edward Rothschild* David Springer Bernard Weissbourd* Joseph Galvin* Roy Hofer Andrew Laidlaw John McDermott Patrick O'Brien George Rothschild* Ronald Stackler Albert Werner* Henry Gardner* John Hoffman Fred Lane Sally McDonald Norman Olson, Jr. Esther Rothstein* Edward Stackler* Lawrence West Francis Gariepy Robert Hogan Frederic Lane John McElligott* James Otis Steven Rotunno James Stanhaus Wayne Whalen Ray Garrett* Thomas Homburger Joseph LaRocco Raymond McGaugh George Overton Jeffrey Rubenstein Justin Stanley* John White Vincent Gaughan Paul Homer Herbert Lautmann* William McSwain* Nat Ozmon Joseph Rubinelli Charles Stege* Bradford Wiles* Malcolm Gaynor David Hopkins Terrence Lavin W. Donald McSweeney Michael Pabian Louis Rundio, Jr. Edmund Stephan* Jack A. Williamson* Andrew Gelman Donald Horwitz Samuel Lawton, Jr. John Menk* Keith Parson* Tomas Morgan Russell* Robert Stephenson David Wishnick* Peter Geraci Charles Hough* Seymour Layfer* Richard Menson David Parson* David Ruttenberg Pressley Stevenson* Robert Wiss* Theodore Gertz Jonathan Howe L. Bates Lea J. Theodore Meyer Cecil Partee* Wendy Sadler Charles Stewart Bernard Wolfe Michael Gesas* R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Thomas Leavens Charles Michod Theodore Pasquesi Linda Salisbury Katherine E. Stimson, Trust Harry Wyatt Peter Giachini* Donald Hubert Morris Leibman* Mary Milano Robert Patterson William Saltiel Raymond Stoecker* Shelby Yastrow N.A. Giambalvo Thomas Hullverson George Leighton Byron Miller Beverly Pattishall Elroy Sandquist, Jr.* Joseph Stone Stephen Yates* David Gibbons James Hume* Marshall LeSueur Middleton Miller* Wilbur Pell, III Charles Satinover T.C. Strachan, Jr. William Zacharias Penny Gillen Ferris Hurd* Eileen Letts Amos Miller* Harold Perlman Terry Rose Saunders Eileen Strang John Zacharias Stanford Glass Raymond Janicek Robert Levin Laura Miller* Grier Pettibone John Eric Schaal Jonathan Strauss James Zacharias* Bob Glaves Albert Jenner, Jr.* Robert Levin Lawrence Mills Bruce Pfaff Donald Schiller James Streicker Miles Zaremski John Goedert Raymond Jensen Herzl Levine Stephen Milwid Steven Pflaum Ruth Ann Schmitt Fred Sudak John Zvetina* Arthur Gold John Jiganti Louis Levit* Newton Minow A.J. Pflaum* Robert Schmitz Robert Sugrue*

*Deceased *Deceased

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 28-29 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG cbf law firm and corporate sponsors fy 2002 and fy 2003 Over 100 law firm and corporate sponsors provided several hundred thousand dollars in support for the CBF’s work over the past two fiscal years. We thank all of them for their generous support, and they are noted below.

UNDERWRITERS ($10,000 or more in FY 2002 and/or 2003) OTHER CORPORATE AND LAW FIRM SPONSORS Clifford Law Offices LexisNexis Northern Trust ($500 to $2,000 in FY 2002 and/or 2003)

Jenner & Block Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw Winston & Strawn The Affiliates Global Financial Service Price Tunney & Reiter Group All-State Legal Professional Library BENEFACTORS ($5,000 to $10,000 in FY 2002 and/or 2003) Goldstine Skrodski Russian Service, Inc. Aloha Document Services Nemec & Hoff Ltd. Abbott Laboratories Fund McDermott Will & Emery Seyfarth Shaw PS Technologies, Inc. Altheimer & Gray McDonald’s Corporation Sidley Austin Brown & Wood Amcreative, inc. The Gunlocke Company Querrey & Harrow Baker & McKenzie McGuireWoods Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Apex Courier, Inc. Harris Bank & Trust & Flom Robinson Curley & Clayton Corboy & Demetrio Much Shelist Freed Appropriate Personnel Holland & Knight Denenberg Ament & Bell Today’s Legal Staffing Services, Inc. Romanucci & Blandin Exelon Corporation/ComEd Holmes Engraving Piper Rudnick Wildman Harrold Allen ATA Ross & Hardies Foley & Lardner & Dixon Iron Mountain Records Power Rogers & Smith Attorneys Title Guaranty Management Sara Lee Corporation Greene & Letts Willamette Management Fund Sachnoff & Weaver Jones Day Associates JKI Jean Kripton, Inc. Schiff Hardin & Waite SBC/Ameritech Bowne Business Solutions Kirkland & Ellis The John Buck Company Solomon Cordwell Buenz Calihan Catering, Inc. & Associates Julien J. Studley, Inc. Canon Business Solutions Special Counsel, Inc. PATRONS ($2,500 to $5,000 in FY 2002 and/or 2003) Juris Midwest Sales Archer Management Services LaSalle Bank Sonnenschein Nath CBA Administrators & Services, Inc. StaffWise Legal & Rosenthal Baxter International, Inc. Law Bulletin Publishing Clancy & Stevens Keystone Solutions T-Shirts Direct Company 24Seven Copies Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Coffee Unlimited Latham & Watkins Telelink Communications, Navigant International UPS LLC IKON Document Solutions Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust Illinois LLC Sears, Roebuck & Co. Templeton & Associates Landmark Document Cotsirilos Tighe & Streicker The Lawyers Travel Service Services Loop-Law.com Turner Construction David W. Neal & Associates Company PARTNERS ($2,000 in 2002 and/or 2003) Loop Legal Document Technologies, Inc. Uniscribe Adler Murphy & McQuillen Gardner Carton & Douglas Peck Bloom Austriaco Marshall Gerstein & Borun & Mitchell The Environments Group United Airlines Alholm Monahan Keefe Hennessy & Roach McCord Travel Management & Klauke Quarles & Brady Esquire Deposition Services U.S. Office Solutions Inc. Katten Muchin & Zavis Fifth Third Bank McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert Bartlit Beck Herman Richard J. Prendergast Ltd. & Berghoff Werner Printing Co. Inc. Palenchar & Scott Kralovec Jambois & Schwartz Rooks Pitts Fine Arts Engraving William Blair & Company Butler Rubin Saltarelli Company Pattishall McCauliffe & Boyd Latherow Law Office Ross Dixon & Bell Newbury Hilliard Zulkie Partners FMC Corporation & Geraldson Christopher T. Hurley Levenfeld Pearlstein Schiller DuCanto & Fleck & Associates Levin & Schreder Shefsky & Froelich Gary Lee Partners, Interior Pepper Construction Architecture and Design Company Clausen Miller PC Lloyd & Cavanagh Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz Gensler Cochran & Montgomery McAndrews Held & Malloy Williams Montgomery & John Cogan & McNabola McBride Baker & Coles Cooney & Conway Menges & Molzahn Freeborn & Peters Nolan Law Group

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 30-31 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG cbf ASSETS cbf ASSETS statements of statements of 181,727 financial position Cash ...... 133,178 financial position Cash...... Investments ...... 4,748,312 Investments ...... 5,995,613 may 31, 2002 may 31, 2003 Accounts Receivable...... 1,225,643 Accounts Receivable ...... 60,240

Other Current Assets ...... 1,500 Pledges Receivable ...... 64,500

Property and Equipment, net ...... 24,748 Other Current Assets ...... $6,660 Property and Equipment, net ...... 430,714

Total Assets $6,133,381 Total Assets $6,739,454

liabilities LIABILITIES liabilities LIABILITIES and net assets and net assets Grants Payable ...... 246,704 Grants Payable ...... 131,500

Accounts Payable ...... 22,609 Accounts Payable ...... 34,019

Funds Held for Others ...... 99,896 Funds Held for Others ...... 4,916

Prepaid Revenue ...... 13,000 Prepaid Revenue ...... 53,000

Total Liabilities ...... 382,209 Total Liabilities ...... 223,435

NET ASSETS NET ASSETS Unrestricted ...... 3,086,744 Unrestricted ...... 3,431,158 Temporarily Restricted ...... 2,281,522 Temporarily Restricted ...... 2,700,768 Permanently Restricted ...... 382,906 Permanently Restricted ...... 384,093 Total Net Assets ...... 5,751,172 Total Net Assets ...... 6,516,019

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $6,133,381 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $6,739,454

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 32-33 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG the cbf young The past two years saw the continued growth of the CBF’ S YOUNG young Fat Tuesday Challenge Grants ...... 5,400 professionals PROFESSIONALS BOARD (YPB). Launched in 2000, the YPB’s overall professionals (Grants made in honor of winners of various challenge events held in board board grants conjunction with the 3rd Annual Fat Tuesday Challenge co-hosted by the goal is to increase the involvement of young people in the CBF’s work CBF Young Professionals Board and the Chicago Chapter of the Association and to create a mechanism to more effectively complement the award fy 2003 of Legal Administrators) winning public service work of the CBA Young Lawyers Section in Chicago Coalition for the Homeless...... 1,100 carrying out the CBF’s mission. The Young Professionals Board Chicago Volunteer Legal Services ...... 1,000 consists of volunteers from throughout the legal community, including a number of non-attorneys. CARPLS ...... 875 Life Span ...... 850 The YPB holds several fundraising events and works on a number of other initiatives that provide significant financial and volunteer support Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic ...... 500 for the CBF’s other events and programs. The money raised by the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center...... 350 Young Professionals Board supported a number of excellent YLS pro Center for Disability and Elder Law ...... 250 bono and public service projects, provided for a number of special legal CLAIM ...... 250 aid grants, and provided additional support for the CBF’s overall access to justice efforts. Legal Assistance Foundation of Metro Chicago ...... 125 Center for Conflict Resolution...... 100 The YPB’s featured event is the Fat Tuesday Challenge, hosted in partnership with the Greater Chicago Chapter of the Association of Gray Grant ...... 3,000 (to CBA Young Lawyers Section for Law Explorers Project) Legal Administrators (ALA). In 2003, the event raised a net of more than $30,000 for the CBF and the legal aid organizations that it Center for Disability and Elder Law ...... 2,500 supports, and is expected to continue to grow in the future. The YPB (for CBA/YLS/CDEL Partnership for Development Program) also hosts two other annual events, a Cubs game outing in May and CBA Young Lawyers Section ...... 2,500 a Boat Cruise Outing in August or September. (for development and printing of updated “Where to Go For Legal Assistance” Guide)

CBA Young Lawyers Section ...... 1,000 CBF YOUNG PROFESSIONAL’S BOARD MEMBERS 2002-2003 (for printing of brochure to assist pro se defendants in foreclosure proceedings) IV Ashton Robert Gamrath Amy Muran Felton TOTAL: $14,400 Randi Baskin Allen Gilbert Sharon Nolan Cynthia Besecker (2002 PRESIDENT) Carrie Nutter Catherine Goldhaber Ilene Bloom Donovan Pepper David Good Mark Bojan James Pittacora Jamie Hull Paul Broderick Melissa Posten Mia Jiganti Ruben Chapa Melissa Rabel James Kelly Laura Chorvat Charis Runnels Barry Kozak Dan Cotter Elizabeth Schrader Suzanne Massel Dawn Dabagia Wood Wendy Shparago Amy Masters Tricia Dooley Mary Ann Spangler (2003 PRESIDENT) Ryanne Easley Timothy Tomasik Edward McNabola

Celia Gamrath Ł sumo wrestling is one of the many competitive athletic and non-athletic events at the fat tuesday challenge, which the young professionals board hosts jointly with the greater chicago chapter of the association of Legal administrators. top finishers in the various events—which include volleyball, basketball, bowling, pool and darts—are able to designate a special grant in their name to their favorite legal aid organization.

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 34-35 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG the abraham Over the past year, the CBF solidified the ongoing growth of the Lend lend a hand Thomas A. Demetrio Award ...... 8,000 lincoln marovitz a Hand Program into what we believe will ultimately be a thriving grants fy 2003 (to East Village Youth Program) lend a hand independent program in the community in the great tradition of the Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Chicago ...... 1,000 program CBA and CBF. The Program was renamed the Abraham Lincoln Sunlight African Community Center ...... 1,000 Marovitz Lend a Hand Program with a significant boost of $100,000 from the CBF made possible by Judge Marovitz’s generous gift. Chicago Mentoring Center ...... 1,000 New Concepts ...... 1,000 During this transition over the past year, the CBF made a total of $22,000 in grants to exceptional youth mentoring organizations in the Centro Comunitario Juan Diego ...... 1,000 Chicago area through its adjunct Lend a Hand Program, which primarily Life Directions, Inc...... 1,000 is carried out by the CBF’s Lend a Hand Advisory Board. The CBF Midtown Educational Foundation...... 1,000 also funded an impact study of Lend a Hand. In addition to raising and distributing funds to worthy organizations, Lend a Hand works Christopher House ...... 1,000 with the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago and helps to recruit Family Matters ...... 1,000 volunteer tutor/mentors from the legal community. Through the Tickets Horizons for Youth ...... 1,000 for Kids program, Lend a Hand obtains and distributes donated tickets to sporting and cultural events for young people in these programs. Working in the Schools (WITS) ...... 1,000 S.A.F.E...... 1,000 In addition, through the generosity of Tom and Mike Demetrio and those contributing in Tom’s honor, the Foundation also presents the Sinai Community Institute...... 1,000 prestigious Thomas A. Demetrio Award each year to the most outstanding Chicago Youth Program ...... 1,000 youth mentoring organization in Chicago, which now includes an Epworth Tutoring Program ...... 1,000 $8,000 cash award. This year’s recipient of the award was the East Village Youth Program. Youth as Possibility ...... 1,000 There is Hope Foundation...... LEND A HAND ADVISORY BOARD 1,000 Uhlich Children’s Home ...... 1,000 Ross Ambrose James Morsch (in memory of Larry Kay) Karina Ayala-Bermejo Terrence Murphy Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church ...... 500 Dan Bassil Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki Alliance for Community Peace ...... 500 Michael K. Demetrio Rita Planera Better Boys Foundation ...... 500 Thomas A. Demetrio Richard J. Prendergast Thomas M. Donnelly Arin Reeves, Ph.D. Hermosa Community Organization ...... 500 Jann Dragovich Janice Triptow Cambodian Association of Illinois ...... 500 Jerome Green Willie Cole YMCA: North Lawndale...... 500 Bonita Hatchett Hon. Sophia H. Hall Sporting Chance ...... 500 Amy Masters Laura Lane Ferguson Nuevos Futuros at Chicago Commons ...... 500 Matthew Miller TOTAL: $30,000

CBF ANNUAL REPORT / PAGES 36-37 CBF ANNUAL REPORT / WWW.CHICAGOBARFOUNDATION.ORG fy 2002 officers & directors fy 2003 officers & directors of the chicago bar foundation of the chicago bar foundation

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