Your Attack on the Affidavit

Date: 12/8/2009
Time: 12:15 P.M.
Location: The Chicago Bar Association
Presented By: YLS Executive Council Committee
Experience Level: Basic
MCLE Credit: 1.0 IL MCLE Credit

To Register / Questions: Please call (312) 554-2056.

Summary judgments, temporary restraining orders, and preliminary injunctions-these important motions almost always rely on affidavits. How do you mount your best attack on an affidavit? A counter-affidavit is not your only option.

You will hear tips that will help explain the finer points of preparing a motion to strike an affidavit. By learning how to identify errors in opposing parties' affidavits, you will also learn how to write better affidavits for your own motions.

Speakers:
Hon. Diane J. Larsen, Law Division, Circuit Court of Cook County
Devon C. Bruce, Power Rogers & Smith, PC (invited)

MODERATOR:
Scott Henry, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.; Chair, Young Lawyers Section