Clark Hill Attorney Aurora Abella-Austriaco to Speak at the Tokyo Bar Association and American Chamber of Commerce in Japan Seminar “Cross-Border E-Discovery”– March 22

CHICAGO –

Clark Hill Attorney Aurora Abella-Austriaco will be speaking at the “Cross-Border E-Discovery” Seminar hosted by the Tokyo Bar Association (TBA) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) on March 22 in Tokyo. Austriaco will be making the opening and closing remarks for the program, as well as discussing the benefits of doing business in Chicago.

Austriaco concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial and real estate litigation, construction litigation, mechanic’s liens, mortgage foreclosure, mortgage fraud, title insurance claims and other special chancery remedy cases.

Austriaco is currently serving as President of the Chicago Bar Association, an organization of more than 22,000 lawyers. She serves on the board of the Chicago Bar Foundation and served on the board of the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) for five years and as its vice president for two years. She was elected as the first female and minority president of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers’ Association (IRELA), an organization of approximately 1,500 real estate lawyers throughout Illinois. Austriaco also served as board member of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI). She is a founding board member of the Filipino American Bar Association, past board member and current member of the Asian American Bar Association, and past member of the ISBA Real Estate Section Council. She also was elected to the Board of Directors of Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund Inc., a bar related title insurance company. Austriaco was appointed by Chief Judge Holderman to serve as Chair of the 2012 Magistrate Merit Selection Panel.