Community Service Event: Adopt-a-Beach Cleanup at Montrose Beach on Oct. 22, 1-3 PM

The Community Service Committee invites you to join us for a volunteer day: Adopt-a-Beach Cleanup at Montrose Beach on Saturday October 22 from 1:00 to 3:00PM.  We are coordinating this event to support the mission of the Alliance of The Great Lakes.  We will provide garbage bags and rubber gloves, and have two sets of pick-up tongs that can be used, but please bring any additional supplies of your own as well. Dress accordingly for the weather as this is an outdoor event.

Meeting Location: The Dock, 200 W. Montrose Harbor Dr. (restaurant is right on beach and hard to miss)

Meeting Date and Time: Saturday October 22nd, 1:00 to 3:00PM

Register using this link on the Alliance’s website and send a quick email to Mike McMillan at mmcmillan@mwe.com so he has a sense of who is coming. Colleagues, friends, partners, and children are welcome to join us.

To find out more about the Alliance Of The Great Lakes and their mission, please visit this link.

Mark your calendars now – we hope to see you out there!

Community Service Committee

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September 2022 Business Meeting

Registration is now open for our September 22, 2022 business meeting. Please see your email or reach out to Mike McMillan or Clare Willis for the registration link.

Location: Zoom
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Please stay on Zoom after the meeting to network and catch up with CALL friends.)
Cost: free

Speaker: CALL welcomes Canadian author and barrister Daniel Scanlan, who will share insight into the Canadian legal system. He will also describe his experiences writing his first novel, cybercrime thriller The Hacker. Daniel Scanlan is a lawyer who has practiced extensively in the areas of cybercrime, digital evidence, wiretap, smuggling, and money laundering. He wrote the non-fiction Digital Evidence in Criminal Law and was a contributing author to The Lawyer’s Guide to the Forensic Sciences, winner of the Walter Owen Book Prize. He lives on Vancouver Island and enjoys ocean kayaking and hiking. When not outdoors, he is reading and will read almost anything, except books about lawyers. The Hacker is his first novel.

Community Service:  In conjunction with the September Business Meeting, the Community Service Committee encourages CALL members to make a monetary donation to SitStayRead, a Chicago-based non-profit working to advance children’s literacy skills using an engaging curriculum, certified dogs, and dedicated volunteers. Alternatively, SitStayRead, publishes their own line of inclusive books for early readers and all proceeds from the sale of these books goes directly back to supporting SitStayRead and literacy education.

To make a donation: https://www.sitstayread.org/donate

To purchase a book from SitStayRead: https://www.sitstayread.org/published-books

Community Service is also setting up a day in late September/early October through the Alliance for the Great Lakes to clean up Montrose Beach. More details forthcoming.

Door Prizes: Two gift cards will be raffled during the meeting courtesy of LexisNexis.

Registration ends September 19th.
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75th Anniversary Celebration at the Columbia Yacht Club

CALL will celebrate its 75th anniversary on Thursday, June 23 at the Columbia Yacht Club (111 N. DuSable Lake Shore Dr.) from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Get ready to enjoy the company of your favorite CALL friends you haven’t seen in forever and a view of the lake and the skyline from a gorgeous covered outdoor space!

If you opt to be dropped off, be on the lookout for someone holding a bunch of balloons right where your ride can let you out.

Parking and transit information follows:

By Car-Parking Information

Public parking is available in the DuSable harbor parking lot located just north of Columbia, under Lake Shore Drive. The cost is $18 for 2-6 hours. Directions are here. If you have the SpotHero app and you want to save a few dollars you can try Field Harbor parking which is located off lower lower Randolph and can be tricky to find. It is across from the auto pound. The website with directions is here. There is also metered parking on lower lower Randolph.

Taxi/Uber/Lyft

There are three levels of Randolph St in Chicago. Columbia Yacht club is on the intermediate level. There is a turnaround just East of (and below) Lake Shore Drive. That is where you want to be dropped off and picked up. If you are approaching Columbia on Randolph St. do not go to the upper level of Randolph; that does not go to the lakefront.

CTA

The No. 60 Blue Island/26th bus goes through the loop on Washington and ends at Harbor Drive and Upper Randolph. There are stairs just north of the bus stop that go down to Du Sable Harbor parking lot. There is a walkway through the parking lot that ends at the lakefront. Columbia Yacht Club will be on your right (south). It’s about a 15 minute walk from the bus stop to Columbia.

DIVVY

If you decide to ride, there is a DIVVY bike station at the north end of DuSable harbor, just north of Columbia.

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May 2022 Business Meeting

Registration is now open for our May 12, 2022 business meeting. Please see your email or reach out to Philip Johnson or Jill Meyer for the registration link.

Location: Zoom
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Please stay on Zoom after the meeting to network and catch up with CALL friends.)
Cost: free

Speakers: CALL welcomes co-speakers, Kristen Sonday, co-founder and CEO of Paladin and Devshi Mehrotra, founder and CEO of Justice Text. They will be speaking about their experiences as female LegalTech founders and CEOs, the importance of technology in the push for access to justice and increased accessibility of legal information, as well as the importance of legal professionals in their work.

Devshi Mehrotra is a founder and the CEO of JusticeText, an audiovisual evidence management system for public defenders. JusticeText automates transcripts for videos, including body camera footage, interrogations, and courtroom proceedings — speeding up pre-trial preparation and helping defense attorneys to give better counsel to their clients. Devshi founded JusticeText in 2019 with a classmate at the University of Chicago. In 2020, they secured funding from multiple investors to scale their solution and improve the criminal justice system nationwide. They were recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for social impact.

Kristen Sonday is the Co-Founder and CEO of Paladin, a service that aims to increase access to justice by helping legal teams run more efficient pro bono programs. After graduating from Princeton, Kristen joined the U.S. Department of Justice, where she worked on international criminal affairs in Mexico and Central America. After the DOJ, she joined the founding team of Grouper (Y Combinator W’12), learning how to build startups and use technology to scale networks. Kristen is a Fellow for Stanford’s Latino Entrepreneur Leaders Program, and a Google for Entrepreneurs Code2040 Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Kristen is also a 2017 ABA Woman in Tech to Watch as a result of her access to justice work through Paladin.

Community Service: In light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing humanitarian crisis it is creating for Ukrainians everywhere, the Community Service Committee encourages CALL members to make monetary donations to the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. Established in 1925, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) is the longest-running and largest Ukrainian women’s organization in the US. Their mission is to promote and develop educational and cultural efforts and provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians worldwide. They have been very active in response to the attack on Ukraine and have six local Chicago branches. They accept online donations through PayPal and Facebook as well as checks: https://unwla.org/#donate

Additionally, join us on Saturday, May 14, 2022, from 10 am – 12 pm at the River Trail Nature Center (RTNC, 3120 Milwaukee Ave., Northbrook, IL 60062) to help clean-up the forest preserve. Work typically involves removing buckthorn or other invasive species, mulching, planting, clearing brush, or clearing trails of debris. Tasks will be given by Forest Preserve staff on the day of service. All volunteers should dress for working outdoors, including full-length pants, layers, sun protection, and closed toe work shoes that can get muddy. Water and snacks will be provided, but bringing your own water bottles and snacks is recommended. All family members or friends ages 10 & up are welcome.

Use this Google Doc to sign up. Contact James Fortsas or Lisa Winkler with any questions. Visit the RTNC website for more information about the event.

Door Prizes: Two gift cards will be raffled during the meeting courtesy of LexisNexis.

Registration ends May 11th.
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