The ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter's Annual Legal Legends Luncheon will be Tuesday, September 12, 2023. The program will feature keynote remarks from Colleen Connell, Executive Director of the ACLU of Illinois, and will also feature Zinelle October and Geoffrey R. Stone.

 

We're thrilled to announce the 2023 Abner J. Mikva and Ruth Goldman Honorees! 

  

2023 Abner J. Mikva Awardees:

Patricia Brown Holmes, Managing Partner, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Thomas Geoghegan, Shareholder, Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Ltd.

Bob Graham, Of Counsel, Jenner & Block LLP

Tina Tchen, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Impact, Obama Foundation

Brian Wallach, Founder, I AM ALS; Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2023 Ruth Goldman Awardees:

Karyn Bass Ehler, Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General, Illinois Attorney General's Office

Ameri Klafeta, Director, Women's and Reproductive Rights, ACLU of Illinois

 

 

Online ticket sales have closed. If you are still interested in attending the Luncheon, please email us at LCEmails@acslaw.org.

  

  

Thank you to our early sponsors: 

FOUNDER: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

PATRON: Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. and Jenner & Block LLP 

BENEFACTOR: Linda Coberly, Loevy & Loevy, Saul Ewing LLP, Sidley Austin LLP, and The Prinz Law Firm

DONOR: Mayer Brown LLP, Massey & Gail LLP, Juan R. Thomas, and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FRIEND: Margaret Battersby Black, Daniel A. Cotter and Rebecca Sundin  

 

If you are interested in sponsoring the Luncheon, please contact Meghan Paulas at mpaulas@acslaw.org.  

 

Tuesday, September 12  

12:00 p.m. CT 

 

Union League Club 

65 W Jackson Blvd. 

Chicago, IL 60604 

Four Panelists: 

Mr. Eric Tirschwell, Executive Director and Chief Litigation Counsel at Everytown Law

Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean of Yale School of Public Health and C-E.A. Winslow Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Professor of Emergency Medicine

Professor Jesenia Pizarro, Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Arizona State University

Professor Michael Ulrich, Assistant Professor of Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights at Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Law

Mr. Tirschwell will set the stage, discussing what United States v. Rahimi is about, the legal work Everytown is doing on the intersection of gun violence and domestic violence, and Everytown’s amicus brief in Rahimi. Dr. Ranney will discuss her work on recognizing gun violence as an epidemic, how we can conceptualize domestic violence as a public health issue, and her perspective as an emergency room physician. Professor Pizarro will discuss your research on firearms and domestic violence, as well as provide a criminology perspective on these issues. Professor Ulrich will discuss the public health law aspects of United States v. Rahimi, the public health scholars amicus brief, and perhaps his Foreword in the issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics on the fight against gun violence (especially the idea of using a justice-centered firearms framework and how this framework could be applied to the intersection of gun violence and domestic violence)