The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that early bird registration is open for its ninth annual Future Is Now: Legal Services conference. The legal professionalism conference will be held virtually from 12 – 4:30 p.m. CDT on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
Early bird tickets are available for $30 through February 28. The price will increase on March 1.
Attendees are eligible for 4.0 hours of professional responsibility CLE credit in Illinois, including 1.0 hour of diversity and inclusion credit and 1.0 hour of mental health and substance abuse credit. Space is limited.
About the Future Is Now
The Future Is Now is one of the nation’s premier legal professionalism conferences. The 2025 event will focus on topics impacting the sustainability of your practice, now and into the future, including:
- Strategies for identifying and coping with vicarious trauma as an attorney
- Practical use cases for leveraging legal technology – like generative AI – to build an ethical and effective practice
- Recommendations for addressing bullying, incivility, and unethical behavior in the workplace
- Approaches for understanding and promoting a diverse, inclusive, and healthy legal profession in today’s environment
The speaker list will be announced in the coming weeks.
In 2024, more than 500 legal professionals attended the Future Is Now. Speaker videos from past conferences can be viewed on the Commission’s YouTube channel. CLE credit is not available for viewing these videos.
If you are an Illinois attorney experiencing a financial hardship that makes it difficult to pay the fee for this CLE program, please click here to view our financial hardship policy.
About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
The Illinois Supreme Court established the Commission on Professionalism under Supreme Court Rule 799 to promote integrity, professionalism, and civility among the lawyers and judges of Illinois, to foster a commitment to the elimination of bias and divisiveness within the legal and judicial systems, and to ensure those systems provide equitable, effective, and efficient resolution of problems for the people of Illinois.
The Commission achieves this mission through professional responsibility CLE, lawyer-to-lawyer mentoring, legal professionalism programming, educational resources, robust communications platforms, and more. To learn more, visit 2Civility.org and follow us on LinkedIn.
Press Contact
Laura Bagby, Communications Director
312-363-6209
laura.bagby@2civility.org
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