More—copied this because of the comments about community organizations..
http://www.illinoisprobono.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_Content&contentID=6481
On July 1, 2008, amendments to Illinois Supreme Court Rules 716 and 756 went into effect that give retired and inactive attorneys as well as corporate attorneys with limited admission status the ability to provide on a pro bono basis critical legal assistance to vulnerable and disadvantaged people who would otherwise be shut out of our justice system.
The ARDC recently posted to its website the forms that organizations (?sponsoring entities?) and pro bono attorneys must complete in order to perform pro bono work under the amended rules.
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the amendments to Rules 716 and 756: Provide that retired, inactive and in-house attorneys with limited admission status may do pro bono work without charge or expectation of a fee for individuals of limited means or charitable, civic, community or other similar groups
Check this link out..worth the read..
http://www.dcba.org/brief/marissue/1998/art60398.htm
II. Confidentiality Issues And Attorney Impairment Supreme Court Rule 766 sets forth disciplinary matters that shall remain private and confidential.28 Matters mentioned under this Rule include proceedings before the Inquiry Board. This provision applies to all matters brought before the Inquiry Board, whether they involve attorney impairment or not. Rule 766 also provides that proceedings before the Hearing and Review Boards pursuant to Rule 758 shall remain confidential.
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SNEED
Chicago Sun-Times - Thursday, October 15, 1992
Author: Michael Sneed
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Tipsville . . .
Dateline: City Hall - Watch for City Planning Commissioner Valerie Jarrett to hire Michelle Robinson -Obama, an assistant to Mayor Daley’s former chief of staff, Dave Mosena, as her new point person responsible for monitoring the city’s major business expansion and retention efforts.
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Barack’s rock - Obama’s blunt, tough partner Michelle helps shape her husband’s politics and life and is integral to his campaign
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Sunday, April 22, 2007
Author: Christi Parsons, Bruce Japsen and Bob Secter, Tribune staff reporters
EXCERPT
In the summer of 1991, Valerie Jarrett, then Mayor Richard Daley’s deputy chief of staff, interviewed a young Sidley Austin attorney named Michelle Robinson . After the 90-minute conversation, Jarrett offered her a job, but Robinson called back a day later, not to say “yes” but “maybe.” First, she said, her fiance wanted to meet Jarrett.
By that time, Obama the independent-minded community activist had privately expressed his political ambitions. This job would put his wife-to-be squarely in the offices of the man whose father had perfected the Democratic machine.
“My fiance wants to know who is going to be looking out for me and making sure that I thrive,” Jarrett recalled Robinson telling her.
So the three of them — the prospective boss, the job applicant and the man she would marry a year later — piled into a booth at a seafood restaurant in the Loop and got to know each other over a long dinner.
At the end of the evening, Jarrett turned to Barack and asked, “Well, did I pass the test?” Obama smiled, put his head down, closed his eyes and said, “Yeah, you passed the test.”
That was the start of a long relationship that has paid off politically for Barack Obama, connecting him to Daley’s inner circle.
At City Hall, Michelle Obama forged close and lasting friendships with Jarrett and many other top Daley aides, including former Corporation Counsel Susan Sher and David Mosena , who was the mayor’s chief of staff when Michelle Obama first joined his administration. She left in 1993.
All have long since left the city payroll as well, but are loyal to the mayor and now the Obamas. Their careers also have frequently overlapped, and together they make up a network that reaches into virtually every aspect of Chicago politics.
After leaving City Hall, Jarrett went on to lead the Chicago Transit Authority. She recruited Michelle Obama to the transit agency’s citizen advisory committee. Mosena , who now is president of the Museum of Science and Industry, served with Obama on the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.
Currently, she works as the $273,618-a-year vice president for community and external affairs at The University of Chicago Medical Center. Her boss there is Sher.
City Hall records show Michelle Obama, then still named Robinson, began work as a $60,000-a-year mayoral assistant in September of 1991. She didn’t stay long in the mayor’s office. Within weeks, Daley promoted Jarrett to run the new Department of Planning and Development. Obama followed.
She had no background in economic development, but Obama served as a troubleshooter for Jarrett.
“She had this incredible ability to be a problem solver,” said Beth White, an assistant to the planning commissioner at the time. “She was just totally unflappable.”
Obama also picked up a reputation for being blunt. Once a junior staffer wanted a promotion and came to White and Obama to talk about it. Obama walked the woman step-by-step through her shortcomings, White recalled.
“It wasn’t a put-down,” White said. “It was simply, ‘You’re not ready for this and here’s why.’ She did it kind, but firm. A lot of people are uncomfortable doing that.”
After only 18 months at the city, she left to launch the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, a group that sought to build future community leaders by arranging apprenticeships for young adults with non-profit organizations. Barack Obama was on the founding board of Public Allies, and it was he who recommended his new wife for the job as the Chicago chapter’s first executive director, recalled Paul Schmitz, the current president of the group, which is now headquartered in Milwaukee and has chapters in many cities.