2025 ILCBA Fall Seminar
Creditors' Rights & Real Estate:
Legal Strategies, Ethics, and Bench Insights
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 8:45 AM - 3:15 PM | Virtual via Zoom
Approved for 5 CLE & 1 Professional Responsibility Credit
The Illinois Creditors Bar Association invites you to attend our 2025 Fall Seminar on Tuesday, November 11! This virtual event is the perfect opportunity to stay up to date on the latest developments, strategies, and ethical considerations in creditors' rights and real estate law.
Join your peers for an interactive and informative program, featuring insights from experienced practitioners and members of the judiciary. If you're looking to expand your expertise, this seminar is for you.
Registration
Member $95 Non-member $125 Law Clerk/Student $65
Member Recording $95
*See Below for Financial Assistance Policy
Sponsorship Opportunities Listed Below Speakers
Fall Seminar Sessions
Session 1: Parting Thoughts from the Bench
Honorable Stephen A. Swedlow
Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
Law Division
Judge Stephen Swedlow most recently presided over Calendar 5 of the Cook County Law Division Tax and Miscellaneous Remedies Section in Courtroom 2503, but was recently transferred to Calendar Q Law Division Commercial Calendar Section in Courtroom 2007. Judge Swedlow earned his undergraduate degree from Miami University of Ohio, and his J.D. from The Ohio State University. Before his appointment to the Bench, he practiced law for more-than 25 years at Latham & Watkins, Swedlow & Associates and Korein Tillery, and eventually at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he was the Managing Partner.
Session 2: Eviction Roundtable 2025
Presented by:
Session 3: The Ethics of AI
Sari W. Montgomery
Partner
Robinson, Stewart, Montgomery & Doppke LLC
Sari Montgomery has spent her more than 30-year career in the Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility field. She began her career as Litigation and Senior Litigation Counsel with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC).
Since 2010, Ms. Montgomery ahs defended lawyers and judges facing disciplinary and sanctions proceedings, and represents bar applicants in the Character and Fitness process. Read more.
Session 4: Illinois Replevin and Detinue Actions –
Recovery of Commercial Equipment
Honorable Daniel P. Duffy
Law Division – Tax & Miscellaneous Remedies Section
Judge Duffy was appointed to the bench in April 2014 and is presently assigned to the Cook County Law Division's Tax & Miscellaneous Section, where he presides over a call princippaly involving detinue and replevin actions, confessions of judgment, administrative appeals and condemnation cases.
Previous to his present assignment, Judge Duffy presided over a jury trial call in the First Municipal Division. Read more.
Session 5: National Developments in Creditors' Rights
Nathan D. Willner, Esq.
Vice President of Government Affairs
National Creditors Bar Association
Nathan Wilner is an accomplished attorney with over two decades of experience in the creditors rights industry. He currently serves as the VP of Government Affairs at the National Creditors Bar Association (NCBA).
Among the multiple awards received, Nathan is the recipient of the prestigious 2022 Leaders in Law Award given by the Maryland State Bar Association and the Daily Record. Read more.
Sponsorship Opportunities
All Sponsorships include your linked Name/Logo in the digital seminar program book (sponsor level indicated). Book is permanently saved/searchable in the ILCBA Members-Only Online Resource Library.
$750 - GOLD SPONSOR
$500 - SILVER SPONSOR
$250 - BRONZE SPONSOR
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Thank you to our current sponsors!
Silver Sponsors
** Financial Assistance Policy
Assistance in the form of waivers of registration fees, reduced fees, or discounts, is available to any interested attorneys by submitting a written request to ilcba@corpevent.com not less than 14 days prior to the seminar date.
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