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EDUCATION
1970 Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago, Illinois
Juris Doctor, with Distinction
Licensed to practice law in Illinois - 1970
Licensed to practice law before the U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois - 1970
Licensed to practice law in Colorado - 1988
Licensed to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court - 1998
1969-1970 IIT - Chicago-Kent Law Review, Associate Editor.
1967 University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science, Political Science
LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Partner with law firm of Ariano Hardy since 1985.
- Fellow in American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
- American Bar Association - Member since 1970. Attendee of American Bar Association Bar Leadership Institute, 1992, 1993 and speaker in 1994.
- American Judicature Society - Member.
- The Association of Trial Lawyers of America - Member Family Law Section.
- Association for Conflict Resolution - Member.
- Chicago Bar Association - Member.
- Elgin Bar Association - Member and Past President.
- Illinois State Bar Association - Member since 1970. Assembly Member from the 16th Judicial Circuit, 1994-2001; Assembly Finance Committee Member and Past Chair; Family Law Section Council Member and Past Chair; CLE Committee Member and Vice-Chair; speaker at Family Law Seminar; Author of article for Illinois Bar Journal; and Task Force on Legal Services Member.
- Illinois Bar Foundation - Past Board Member and Fellow.
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association - Member.
- Kane County Bar Association - Member since 1970. 1993/1994 President; 1992/1993 First Vice-President; 1991/1992 Second Vice President; 1988/1989 Secretary; 1989 through 1992 Chair of the Family Law Committee; 1992/1993 Chair of the Delivery of Legal Services Committee; 1995 through 2004 Chair of the Bench/Bar Committee; 1997/98 Chair of Kane County New Facilities Committee. Recipient of the Kane County Bar Association President=s Award and Family Law Career Achievement Award. Speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars.
- Kane County Bar Foundation - Board Member, Inaugural President, 1996 - 2000.
- Kane County Justinian Society of Lawyers - Member.
- Kane County Friends of Child Advocacy - Past Board Member.
- Instrumental in initiating Kids in a Divorcing Society Program in Kane County.
- McHenry County Bar Association - Member Family Law Section.
- Chicago Bar Association - Member Family Law Section.
- Mediator and Arbitrator of Kane and McHenry County Courts. Instrumental in initiating mediation in Kane County, Illinois. Invited speaker to Bench and Bar of DuPage County on establishment of their Mediation Program; Speaker for Mediation Council of Illinois Mediation Conference.
- Certified Civil Mediator.
- The Mediation Council of Illinois - Member.
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