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Articles in Oct, 2007 issue of Illinois Bar Journal

• CSI, Judge Judy and civic education: the upside of pop-culture and media fascination with the justice system: it gives lawyers an opening to educate people about the legal process and profession
  by Joseph G. Bisceglia
• POD and TOD accounts and your estate-planning arsenal: payable/transfer-on-death accounts are handy probate-avoidance tools that can even be used to transfer real estate. Or can they?
  by Helen W. Gunnarsson
• Time to update the Rules of Professional Conduct? The Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee is considering a proposal to do just that
  by Helen W. Gunnarsson
• Station adjustments: not-so-rough justice for kids: for juveniles who break the law, "station adjustments" can mete punishment without creating a criminal record. Here's how to help clients make the most of the opportunity
  by Helen W. Gunnarsson
• What court reporters want: at depositions, they want you to say out loud who is in the room. And to speak slowly. And not to interrupt other speakers. And…
  by Helen W. Gunnarsson
• New law expands video appearances by prisoners: public defenders opposed the law's passage, arguing that it gives inmates second-class justice
  by Helen W. Gunnarsson
• Estate planning for the rest of us: most people don't own enough to owe estate tax when they die. But they still need the kind of estate-planning advice you get from a competent lawyer
  by Helen W. Gunnarsson
• Race-based school assignments after Parents Involved in Community Schools: in one of the most talked-about and contentious rulings of its 2007 term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the race-based plans for assigning students to public schools in Seattl
  by Mark E. Wojcik
• S corp LLC: does the LLC make the Illinois close corporation with S election obsolete?
  by Gail Petravick
• Member-to-member: referral directory
• Terminating guardianships and returning children to parents: pitfalls and possibilities: when should a guardianship be terminated and a child returned to his or her parent in Illinois? Is it enough that the parent is "fit, willing, and able," or
  by Julie M. Harcum
• Davis v. Washington narrows the scope of "testimonial" hearsay
  by Howard W. Anderson, III
• E-mail ethics: an audience with the wizard: what if you misdirect a strategy-disclosing e-mail? How do you keep from revealing embarrassing metadata? Todd Flaming, ISBA's lovable lawyer geek, tells all to Karen Erger, ISBA's lovable malpractice-prevention
  by Karen Erger
• Predatory lending: the continuing saga: a new bill would redefine yet again the Illinois anti-predatory-lending law
  by James K. Weston
• Visitation by biological boyfriend-father: a biological father from wife's extra marital affair can win visitation with his child even though the wife's marriage remains intact
  by H. Joseph Gitlin