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Chicago Lawyer Raymond J. Werner is New Member of ABA Board of Governors
CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2005 — Raymond J. Werner, chairman of the Executive Committee of Arnstein & Lehr LLP, today became a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, at the close of the 2005 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Werner begins a three-year term on the board, which meets at least four times yearly to oversee administration and management of the association. He will represent the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law.
In Arnstein & Lehr’s real estate practice, Werner represents purchasers, owners, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in connection with all types of property transactions. He also represents lenders in structuring loan programs, originating individual loans, and the enforcement of lenders’ rights and remedies.
An active member of the ABA Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Werner is a delegate to the ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates and serves on its executive committee. He is also a former ABA advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Joint Editorial Board for Real Property Acts.
Werner is also a member and former chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Real Property Committee, a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the International Council of Shopping Centers, and is U.S. president-elect of the Anglo American Real Property Institute.
Werner received his Juris Doctor degree from the Chicago-Kent College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul University.
With more than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.
