This June, we're celebrating you during Member Appreciation Month. To help you meet your MCLE requirements, we're offering a free live (but virtual) CLE webinar on June 11 from 2 until 3 p.m. How many times have you started down the self-improvement road of time, task, email, and distraction management, and found yourself back in the same place a couple weeks later? It is time to get traction and build long-lasting habits.

The intersection between immigration law and family law can be difficult to navigate if ill-prepared for the trek. Join us on June 11 for this in-depth look at the immigration issues that may arise out of a family law case, including immigration relief concerns. Family law practitioners, child representatives/GAL, immigration attorneys, general practitioners, and new attorneys who attend this online seminar will learn how to evaluate the implications of divorce and parentage in the immigration law context, how family law can incorporate immigration benefits into the case, and how to navigate immigration relief throughout a family law process.

Attorneys often enter into negotiations with the other party without having formulated a careful strategy, says Marty Latz, CEO of Latz Negotiation. Latz, who will present Five Steps to Effective Online Negotiations, an ISBA CLE program, on June 18, sat down with the Illinois Bar Journal and shared his approach to negotiation strategies and tactics and how negotiating online differs from dealing face-to-face. “In the past 40 to 50 years, there’s been a lot of great research in this particular area. There is a right way and a wrong way to negotiate,” says Latz, a former White House negotiator, former adjunct professor at Arizona State University College of Law, and author of “The Real Trump Deal: An Eye-Opening Look at How He Really Negotiates.” Read the IBJ’s June cover story, “The Art of Negotiating Online,” for more of Latz’s research-based approach to striking deals remotely.

This June, we're celebrating you during Member Appreciation Month! As a result of programmatic savings due to the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020-21 bar year, the ISBA will be providing all current, regular dues-paying members with a 15% dues credit for the 2021-22 bar year. We also have a full calendar of prizes, discounts, and giveaways, so stay tuned to ISBA communications for detailed announcements with instructions for how you can get in on the fun. You can look forward to a bookstore sale, a free live CLE webcast, member renewal incentives, social media contests, and more!