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hannah r. lamore
Our Professionalism Spotlight series highlights Illinois legal professionals who demonstrate the ideals of professionalism in their careers and a commitment to equitable, efficient, and effective justice.
In this Professionalism Spotlight, we spoke to Hannah R. Lamore, a partner at Mahoney, Silverman & Cross, LLC in Joliet, Ill. Hannah concentrates her practice in municipal law and civil litigation.

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commission on professionalism Starting new year 2025. Flipping of 2024 to 2025 on wooden cube blocks. Beginning and start of the new year 2024. Preparation for new year ,life, business, plan, goals, target and strategy concept.
In 2024, the Commission on Professionalism covered the issues making waves in the legal profession.
From addressing workplace bullying and diversity challenges to navigating what’s next for generative AI, we have been sharing legal professionalism news that is important to the practices of Illinois lawyers.
Here is a look at some of our most popular

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ChatGPT recently marked two years since its November 2022 release. As a Large Language Model (LLM) application that can process and generate text in real-time that resembles human language, ChatGPT represented a significant breakthrough in innovative generative AI (GenAI) systems. Similar tools followed, like Claude, Perplexity, and CoPilot.
Two years in, have you tried any

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2024 clio legal trends report
The theme of this year’s ClioCon, an annual legal technology conference produced by legal software provider Clio, was “Momentum.”
During the conference, which was held October 7 and 8 in Austin, Texas, Clio CEO and Founder Jack Newton used the image of a flywheel to illustrate the theme. A flywheel takes energy to start

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