Bar Foundation

The Year is Still Young

BY DOUGLAS DORANDO PRESIDENT

As you read this, we are now nearly a quarter of the way

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Douglas Dorando President Carey Schiever Vice President Perry Smith, Jr. Treasurer Joan Fratianni Secretary Nicholas Riewer Past President Jennifer L. Ashley Jeffrey A. Berman Nandia P. Black Kristie Fingerhut Hon. Fred Foreman (Ret.) Scott B. Gibson David J. Gordon Keith C. Grant Fredric B. Lesser Amy L. Lonergan Steven P. McCollum Joseph McHugh Hon. Michael Nerheim Michael Ori Shyama Parikh John Quinn, Sr. Eric Rinehart Melanie Rummel David Stepanich Hon. Henry C. Tonigan (Ret.) into the new year. The Gridiron has (presumably) been a wild success, replete with inside jokes of questionable taste, and the community can again retire for two years to generate new content to be wildly scandalized by when reminded of the events.

Jokes aside, the directors, writers, cast, and crew of the Gridiron put in a tremendous amount of work, and our sincere congratulations and thanks go out to them for bringing some levity to such a serious profession (along with the sordid navel gazing which follows).

Although we’re only a quarter of our way into the calendar year, the Foundation is entering the third quarter of its fiscal year. (With that lead-in, I’m sure everyone is waiting with bated breath to see where I’m going . . . or perhaps turning the page to see the pretty pictures from the aforementioned Gridiron . . . ).

As a Board we’ve already had a successful year: we put together our virtual “Breakneck Shakespeare” night, and we’ve continued to partner with local organizations to further the legal community’s involvement in our geographic community.

As just one such example in the last few weeks, the Foundation partnered with the LCBA, the 19th Judicial Circuit, AWALC, and United Way of Lake County to conduct a book drive for local elementary schools. This is the kind of charitable work that your