Full Text of HR0769 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate the Rammelkamp Bradney, | 4 | | P.C. law firm as they celebrate the 125th anniversary of their | 5 | | founding; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The firm now known as Rammelkamp Bradney was | 7 | | founded in Jacksonville in 1895 by L.O. Vaught, a former | 8 | | schoolteacher turned lawyer who graduated from Illinois | 9 | | College and the University of Illinois College of Law; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, In the late 1920s, L.O. Vaught added his nephews | 11 | | Orville Foreman and Ed Cleary as his first law partners, with | 12 | | the firm then becoming Vaught, Cleary, and Foreman; with the | 13 | | onset of World War II in 1941, Foreman and Cleary temporarily | 14 | | suspended their law practices to serve their country; Foreman | 15 | | returned to the firm in 1945, while Cleary opted to become a | 16 | | law professor at the University of Illinois upon his return in | 17 | | 1946; Cleary later became one of the authors of the original | 18 | | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Theodore "Ted" Rammelkamp Sr. joined the firm in | 20 | | 1948 after his distinguished military service saw him flying | 21 | | over 30 missions in the European and North African theaters in | 22 | | World War II; together, Foreman and Rammelkamp Sr. spearheaded |
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| 1 | | the firm's municipal law practice and formed an industrial | 2 | | corporation that secured over 1,000 jobs for returning | 3 | | veterans; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Robert Bradney, a Jacksonville native and alumnus | 5 | | of Illinois College and Harvard Law School, joined the firm in | 6 | | 1950; he later became the first recipient of the Illinois State | 7 | | Bar Association's Board of Governors Award in 1981 and a member | 8 | | of the first class of Illinois Lawyer Laureates of the Illinois | 9 | | Bar Association in 2000; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Barbara Fritsche joined the firm in 1982, the | 11 | | first female attorney to practice law in Morgan County; | 12 | | Rammelkamp Bradney remained the only law firm in Jacksonville | 13 | | to employ women as lawyers until 2015; H. Allen Yow joined the | 14 | | firm in 1989, and he further served the legal profession as the | 15 | | Chairman of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Character | 16 | | and Fitness for the Fourth Judicial District; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Rammelkamp Bradney was recognized as a Centennial | 18 | | Business by the Illinois State Historical Society in 1995 as it | 19 | | celebrated its 100th anniversary; in the same year, the firm | 20 | | hosted its first employment law seminar to educate local | 21 | | businesses on the laws that affect their relationships with | 22 | | employees; today, the firm hosts several employment law | 23 | | seminars per year; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The firm expanded its operations by opening a | 2 | | satellite office in Springfield in 2000 and established an | 3 | | office in Winchester in 2003; the Springfield office relocated | 4 | | to a larger building at 741 South Grand Avenue in 2008, where | 5 | | it remains to this day; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, For a majority of its existence, the law firm's | 7 | | name changed to reflect its then current partners; that | 8 | | practice ended in 2005 when the firm permanently fixed its name | 9 | | as Rammelkamp Bradney to honor two of its most prominent | 10 | | attorneys, Theodore "Ted" Rammelkamp and Robert Bradney; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Today, Rammelkamp Bradney consists of six | 12 | | partners, three associate attorneys, and one "of counsel" | 13 | | attorney working out of offices in Jacksonville and | 14 | | Springfield; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Rammelkamp Bradney continues to build upon its | 16 | | foundation of professionalism and to work to adapt to meet the | 17 | | needs of its clients, which are ever-evolving; it is recognized | 18 | | as one of the most respected law firms in Illinois; therefore, | 19 | | be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 21 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| 1 | | we congratulate the Rammelkamp Bradney, P.C. law firm as they | 2 | | celebrate the 125th anniversary of their founding, and we wish | 3 | | them many more successful years; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to the Rammelkamp Bradney law firm as an expression | 6 | | of our respect and esteem.
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