Our Latest Featured Speaker is Kevin T. Turkcan!

Our latest Featured Speaker is Kevin T. Turkcan, Law Clerk to the Hon. Rena Marie Van Tine of the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District!

Kevin is speaking tomorrow at our Winning Motions for Summary Judgment: From Discovery Strategy to Persuasive Writing (IL and Federal) webinar. 

This program is built for attorneys who want a practical, step-by-step framework for summary judgment in Illinois state and federal court. It starts with the differences between FRCP 56 and section 2-1005 and the practical impact of Local Rule 56.1, then moves through building the record in discovery, choosing which arguments to bring, drafting the motion and the statement of undisputed facts, and responding effectively when you are the one opposing. The faculty pairs a practicing commercial litigator with two people who have spent years working inside the Illinois courts.

You can see the detailed agenda and sign up to watch it live, or purchase OnDemand Streaming or a recorded package download, here.

Kevin has clerked for Justice Van Tine since 2020, and before that he clerked for the Honorable Eileen O’Neill Burke. Our attendees love hearing from him, because a clerk can tell you what a judge is actually looking for when a motion lands on the desk, and Kevin delivers it as a polished speaker with information they can put to use right away.

He has also sat on both sides of the bench, which is part of what makes him so good on a summary judgment program. From 2013 to 2020 Kevin was in private practice, primarily representing plaintiffs in police misconduct, whistleblower, and employment discrimination cases, and he also practiced criminal defense. He has tried civil and criminal cases in both state and federal court. So when he talks about a brief, he is talking as someone who has written them under deadline and as someone who now reads them for a court.

Kevin obtained his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2013 and his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2009.

Kevin will be back again next month. He opens Part 2 of our 16th Annual Circuit Court Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts on October 29 with “Winning and Defending Summary Judgment: Strategy, Persuasive Writing,” along with Howard L. Teplinsky commenting. They will cover timing, strategic and cost considerations, writing persuasive briefs from the introduction and headers through the content and conclusion, mistakes to avoid, and what judges want, need, and do not want to see.

Hon. Eileen Marie O’Connor will also comment throughout Part 2, so attendees will get the clerk’s view and the judge’s view of the same motion in the same session. Now in its 16th year, the Boot Camp remains the leading litigation training program in Illinois for attorneys handling or returning to state court practice. You can see the detailed agenda and sign up to watch it live, or purchase OnDemand Streaming or a recorded package download, here.

Thank you, Kevin! We are so happy you will be back with us in October.

Click here for full details and registration for the Boot Camp.