Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: | Provide support to individual members through professional activities, continuing legal education, practice committees. legislative updates, publications and other resources to promote excellence and maintain professional standards. Additionally, to offer the public useful legal information. |
| Form 990, Part I, Line 6: | The Chicago Bar Association (the Organization) has a number of volunteers that serve on its practice committees. These members assist the Organization by volunteering to host and plan continuing education programs, serving as pro bono counsel for litigation concerns, providing pro bono counsel to the community on the Organization's behalf and evaluating judges for the Organization's Judicial Evaluation Committee. In past years, only board members were reported as volunteers on the Form 990. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 4: | The organization's bylaws were updated to correct grammatical errors, replace gender-specific pronouns, remove standard mail as the required medium to notify membership, and allow the Board and committees to meet either in-person or remotely. Additional procedural changes were made for classifications of membership types, meeting procedures, and the timing for election of board members. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6: | The organization has members. The following member classes shall be entitled to vote and be qualified to hold office: Resident Members, Non-resident Members, and Life Members. Student Members shall have those rights and privileges of the membership that the Board may from time to time prescribe. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a: | The organization is a voluntary membership association of lawyers. The 24-25 member Board of Managers oversees the affairs of the association. Sixteen (16) board members are elected by the general membership (eight (8) are elected each year for a two-year term). In addition, five (5) officers and the immediate past president serve on the Board of Managers. The President, First Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected annually. One member-at-large may be appointed by the President and at the first meeting of the year, the Board shall elect a representative of the Association's Young Lawyers Section. The Executive Director implements Board policy and administers the operations of the association. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b: | The organization's Form 990 is prepared by an outside accounting firm. Internal management then reviews the Form 990 and approves the return for filing. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a: | An executive compensation committee organized by the Board reviews the compensation package for the Executive Director and recommends any proposals to the whole governing Board for deliberation and approval. The Controller provides assistance by obtaining comparability data from similar organizations in size and operation, including Forms 990 of other organizations. The compensation is approved by the Board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19: | The organization does not currently have its governing documents and financial statements readily available to the public. Nonetheless, the organization promptly attends to any request for disclosure for the same period of disclosure as set forth in IRC section 6104(d). |
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