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Someday, Thomas L. Kilbride hopes to see people who struggle to speak English navigate courthouses as easily as they move through airports.

At first blush, Piyush Kedia's young company appears to be a client that a law firm partner would be thrilled to represent.

Legal process outsourcers — third-party vendors who do low-priced legal support services for corporations and for law firms — are having a real effect on the marketplace.

Five years ago, Kathleen Hogan Morrison's international adoption practice accounted for 40 percent of her cases. Today, it's about 15 percent.

Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, Americans are still battling over abortion. Some skirmishes are being fought on the federal level. But more are raging in the states.

Today, lawyers remain the No. 2 profession in the General Assembly. Now, they're surpassed only by full-time legislators. The gradual decline in the number of lawyer-lawmakers in Illinois mirrors a national trend.

It's usually not fun to argue in favor of the right to offend people. "But you've got to come down on the side of freedom of expression," said Thomas Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society in Chicago

Four years ago, Abishi C. Cunningham said in a Q&A for this annual publication that his office does "a lot with a little." That remains true today.

This year's Law Day theme is "Realizing the Dream: Equality for All." You can also flip through page-by-page here.

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If there is anything that every startup has in common, it's that they need to raise money. And that requires lawyers.
How could published estimates of the annual revenue of the legal process outsourcing industry vary from $2.4 billion to less than one-seventh of that?
Dan Jones and Judy Black are accustomed to waiting. After getting more than a year into the adoption process, the North Riverside couple was matched with a girl they thought would soon be their daughter.
On April 1, Abishi C. Cunningham began his fourth year heading the Cook County public defender's office.
Over a period of a few weeks, Cook County Circuit Judge Laura Cha-yu Liu had litigants in her courtroom who needed interpreters to speak Creole, Bulgarian and Mandarin Chinese.
Contributors
This year brings with it a number of momentous anniversaries.
In David Lemons, generations of students had a passionate teacher whose methods for demystifying government were, as I look back on them, genius.
I teach evidence, trial advocacy and civil procedure for my living. During semester breaks, I often walk from my house to the Winnebago County Courthouse to watch trials.
One of my mentors earlier in my career told me that it is important to give back to the community, because as lawyers we have an obligation to the community.
Recent headlines likely placed some working families in a semistate of panic. They announced that CEO Marissa Mayer of Yahoo had taken the draconian measure of banning telecommuting outright. Best Buy followed suit.
A fair system of justice can be turned inside out in almost no time.
In February, The John Marshall Law School announced that I would hold the Edward T. and Noble W. Lee Chair in Constitutional Law for the academic year 2013-2014.
Which "Downton Abbey" character do you most resemble?
Law Day 2013 will always have special significance for me because I have the privilege of serving as the current president of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel.

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