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  Law and Legal Affairs

 

The law affects every aspect of our daily lives, from our civil rights to protections against criminal harm. To advance our coverage of the law, the courts, and legal issues, we seek the insights and expertise of those who serve on our Law Advisory Council.

 

Advisory Council membership is by invitation only, based upon previous civic and societal accomplishments.  We recognize them here for their service to the Illinois Channel and the state of Illinois.

 

Kevin Conway: Chicago

Cooney & Conway

 

Advisory Council Legal Affairs Committee

 

Kevin Conway is a partner and trial attorney in the Chicago, Illinois personal injury law firm of Cooney & Conway.

 

Kevin received his J.D. from the Loyola University School of Law in 1976 and his B.A. in 1973 from Loyola University of Chicago.  He has achieved million-dollar-plus settlements and/or verdicts in all areas of personal injury law, including aviation, construction, mass torts and asbestos.

 

Kevin was a member of the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association from 1988-1997 and has been a member of the Executive Committee since 1995.  He was president of the Association in 2004.  Also, as an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, he chaired the CBA Tort Litigation Committee and co-chaired the Young Lawyers Section of the Trial Technique Committee.  He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is listed in Who's Who in American Law.

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John Locallo:  Chicago

Illinois State Bar Association President, 2011-2012

 

Advisory Council Legal Affairs Committee

 

John Locallo serves as the 2011-2012 President of the Illinois State Bar Association Over the years, Locallo has been active in several other professional and civic organizations, including the Justinian Society of Lawyers for whom he served as president in 2001. A member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, he is the past president, and currently a member, of the Chicago-Kent College of Law-IIT Alumni Board of Directors.  He received the organization’s Distinguished Service Award in 2002.
 
Locallo graduated from the University of Illinois in 1982 and became a Certified Public Accountant the following year. He received his J.D. in 1986 and his LL.M in Taxation in 1992 from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity and Bohemian Lawyers Association of Chicago.


 

Ed Murnane: Arlington Heights

Illinois Civil Justice League

 

Advisory Council Legal Affairs Committee

 

Ed Murnane was named President of the Illinois Civil Justice League early in 1993 after serving for four years in the Reagan and Bush Administrations, including three years as the Midwest Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration.  He also served in the White House as an Assistant to President Bush and Director of Presidential Advance.

 

Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Ed was the Public Affairs Director for the Regional Transportation Authority.  He is also a former award-winning journalist and was the political editor of The Daily Herald in Chicago's suburbs.  Ed has served on the board of directors of the American Tort Reform Association since 1997 and currently sits on ATRA's executive committee.  He is a native of Chicago and lives in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

 

 

 

 

       
       

 

 

 

 
 

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