Richard R. Harden has been asked to become a member of the Council on Litigation Management, a nationwide organization with a mission of furthering the practice of litigation management. Previously known as the Council on Ethical Billing, the new name was announced in April, 2008. Membership is by invitation only.

The Leading Lawyers Network, a division of the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, recently recognized nine Thomas, Mamer & Haughey, LLP attorneys as members of the group. They are:

Civil litigation defense attorneys:
David A. Bailie
William J. Brinkmann
Richard R. Harden

Employment law attorney:
David E. Krchak

Workers' Compensation defense attorneys:
Craig J. Causeman
Bruce E. Warren

Estate Planning and transactional attorneys:
Stuart M. Mamer
Lott H. Thomas
Roger E. Haughey

Membership in the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network is by nomination of a lawyer's peers, with approval from a Member Advisory Board. Membership will never exceed more than 5% of the licensed attorneys in Illinois. Membership cannot be bought. At the Leading Lawyers website, www.leadinglawyers.com, more information is available about each of their areas of experience.

On February 11, 2007, Colin Haley joined Thomas, Mamer & Haughey, LLP as a new associate. A native of Mahomet, Colin graduated in 2003 from Illinois Wesleyan University and in 2006 from the University of Illinois College of Law.
His practice is focused on the areas of estate planning, estate administration, real estate and elder law.

William Brinkmann, Craig Causeman and Richard Harden have been named as Illinois Super Lawyers for 2006. This follows a four-step selection by the publication Law & Politics, after polling more than 47,000 Illinois lawyers. Brinkmann and Harden were named personal injury/medical practice defense lawyers, while Causeman was named for workers’ compensation law. Only seven Champaign-Urbana attorneys were named as “Super Lawyers.”