Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis, Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. and Justice Joy V. Cunningham will administer the attorney’s oath to 1,331 new lawyers over two bar admission ceremony sessions on Wednesday, November 6, in the First Judicial District.
The group is among 1,604 individuals who will be sworn in and admitted to the practice of law in Illinois during bar admission ceremonies held in the state’s five Supreme Court judicial districts. The first bar admission ceremony in the First Judicial District will begin at 10 a.m. at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Dorin Forum located at 725 W. Roosevelt Road. The second bar admission ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m. Chief Justice Theis will preside over the first ceremony. The speaker for the first ceremony will be President-Elect of the Illinois State Bar Association the Hon. Bridget C. Duignan. Bar association representatives for the first ceremony will include Mona Naser of the Arab American Bar Association of Illinois, Weeya Young the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, David Schrodt of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, Nicholas E. Cummings of the Cook County Bar Association, Athena Farmakis of the Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois, Brian Monico of the Justinian Society of Lawyers, and Patricia Cintrón-Bastin of the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thomas M. Donnelly will make the motion to admit the class for the first ceremony. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Nowinski, First Vice President of the Advocates Society of Polish Lawyers, will second the motion.
The second bar admission ceremony in the First Judicial District will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Dorin Forum located at 725 W. Roosevelt Road. Justice Neville and Justice Cunningham will preside over the second ceremony.
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