Full Text of SR0347 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of
Nat P. Ozmon, who passed away on | 4 | | September 14, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Nat Ozmon was born on March 4, 1925, in Davenport, | 6 | | Iowa; he attended college at New York University and received | 7 | | his law degree from Northwestern University, where he ranked | 8 | | first in his class; he was also elected to the Board of Law | 9 | | Review Editors and was installed in the Order of the Coif, a | 10 | | legal scholastic honor society; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Nat Ozmon was the senior member and founder of | 12 | | Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak, & Kohen, Ltd.; during his 40-year | 13 | | career as a trial and appellate lawyer, he was dedicated to | 14 | | preserving and enhancing the rights of injured victims; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Nat Ozmon served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola | 16 | | University School of Law, where he taught Trial Advocacy senior | 17 | | law students for 10 years; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Nat Ozmon was certified by the American Board of | 19 | | Trial Advocates; he was a diplomat of the American Board of | 20 | | Professional Liability Attorneys and a fellow and a founder of | 21 | | the Roscoe Pound Foundation, the Trial Lawyers for Public |
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| 1 | | Justice, and the Institute for Injury Reduction; he was a | 2 | | recognized leader of the bar and served on the managing boards | 3 | | of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Chicago Bar | 4 | | Association, and the Society of Trial Lawyers; he was also a | 5 | | past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Nat Ozmon was listed as one of "The Best Lawyers | 7 | | in America" by the Harvard Law School Study; he was also the | 8 | | recipient of the Leonard Ring Lifetime Achievement Award for | 9 | | his commitment to victims rights and trial by jury; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Nat Ozmon is survived by his wife, June Maguire | 11 | | Ozmon; his children, Nat P. Ozmon, Jr., Laird Ozmon, Lorna | 12 | | Ozmon, Kelle Ozmon, and Rachel Maguire; and his six | 13 | | grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 15 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 16 | | his family and friends, the passing of Nat P. Ozmon; and be it | 17 | | further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of Nat Ozmon as an expression of our | 20 | | sympathy.
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