The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that it will hold its 10th annual Future Is Now: Legal Services conference on Thursday, April 30, 2026. The virtual event will take place from 12 – 4:30 p.m. CDT.
The Future Is Now will explore how professionalism impacts legal excellence and a justice system that works for everyone. A speaker list will be announced soon.
Lawyers across all practice areas, judges, law students, law school faculty and staff, court professionals, paralegals, law librarians, other legal professionals, and anyone interested in the legal and judicial systems are invited to attend.
Attendees are eligible to receive 4 hours of professional responsibility CLE credit in Illinois, including 1 hour of diversity and inclusion CLE credit and 1 hour of mental health and substance abuse CLE credit.
Early bird registration will open in late January. Click here to stay updated.
About the Future Is Now
Over the past 10 years, the Future Is Now has become one of the country’s premier legal professionalism conferences, helping lawyers navigate evolving technological, cultural, and client demands while advancing legal excellence and adhering to ethical rules.
Through talks, panels, and town hall sessions with legal and judicial leaders in Illinois and nationally, the Future Is Now has explored topics like navigating incivility in legal practice, embracing generational differences, recognizing vicarious trauma, practical and ethical uses of legal technology, responding to workplace bullying, advancing cultural competence, and more.
In 2025, more than 500 lawyers, judges, law students, and other legal and court professionals attended the Future Is Now. Ninety-eight percent of attendees rated the conference as a valuable learning experience, and 96% said it provided practical strategies that will improve the way they work.
Watch previous Future Is Now sessions on the Commission’s YouTube channel.
About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
The Illinois Supreme Court established the Commission on Professionalism under Supreme Court Rule 799 to promote integrity, professionalism, and civility among the lawyers and judges of Illinois, to foster a commitment to the elimination of bias and divisiveness within the legal and judicial systems, and to ensure those systems provide equitable, effective, and efficient resolution of problems for the people of Illinois.
The Commission achieves this mission through professional responsibility CLE, lawyer-to-lawyer mentoring, legal professionalism programming, educational resources, robust communications platforms, and more. To learn more, visit 2Civility.org and follow us on LinkedIn.
Press Contact
Laura Bagby, Communications Director
312-363-6209
laura.bagby@2civility.org
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