The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that registration is open for its seventh annual The Future Is Now: Legal Services conference. The conference will be held virtually from 12 – 4:20 p.m. CDT on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
Early bird pricing of $30 per ticket will be available through Wednesday, March 15, when the price will increase to $50 per ticket.
The Future Is Now will explore the intersection of legal innovation and professionalism through the lens of delivering legal services to today’s consumers.
Conference speakers will discuss how to prioritize the principles of professionalism—including civility; legal innovation; access to justice; well-being; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and more—and why they matter for the effective delivery of legal services.
The conference will kick off with featured speaker Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis. Chief Justice Theis will be followed by TED-like talks and interactive town hall discussions from legal industry thought leaders including:
- Mark Britton, Advisor to Clio, Clearbrief, and Tangibly; Founder of Avvo.com. Britton will discuss how to build a client-centered business model that enables attorneys to address the overwhelming number of legal problems that go unmet. (More info)
- Nkoyo-Ene Effiong Lewis, Director of Law Practice Management Program, State Bar of Georgia. Effiong Lewis will speak on how lawyers can more effectively serve clients and build their practices by embracing cultural differences and increasing their cultural competency. (More info)
- Kara Hardin, Chief Executive Officer, The Practice Lab. Hardin will teach attorneys how to advocate for their mental health and well-being at work, why the “Performance Paradox” impedes legal practice, and how system-based interventions (like trauma-informed lawyering) can promote attorney wellness and overall success. (More info)
Additional speakers will be announced later this month.
If you are a student or are in need of financial accommodation, please contact Chelsea Woodmansee at chelsea.woodmansee@2civility.org for a promotional code.
Attendees are eligible to receive 4.0 hours of professional responsibility CLE credit, including 1.0 hour of diversity and inclusion CLE credit and 1.0 hour of mental health and substance abuse CLE credit.
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, and more. To learn more, visit 2Civility.org and follow us on Twitter @2CivilityOrg.
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Laura Bagby, Communications Director
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