Service on Board of Directors by Attorneys and Staff

The firm's lawyers and staff serve on the boards of directors of numerous charitable organizations. Both Phil Corboy and Tom Demetrio are members of the Board of Directors for Chicago's Big Shoulders Fund, a charitable endeavor established by the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, which provides support to Catholic inner-city schools. And they both serve on the Board of Directors for the Center for Disability & Elder Law, an organization providing free civil legal services to the disabled and elderly in the Chicagoland area.

Partner Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr., is the immediate past President of the Board of Directors of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, a not-for-profit agency that provides free civil legal services to low income and elderly people in Chicago and suburban Cook County. He continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors. Philip is a member of the Law Advisory Council and the Capital Development Committee of DePaul University College of Law. For many years, he served on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind, one of the country's oldest organizations for people who are blind or visually impaired. From 2002 through 2005, he was Vice-Chairman of the Board. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the President’s Club of DePaul University and the Board of the Illinois Variety Club's International Children's Charity.

Shawn Kasserman serves on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the Illinois State Bar Association. Its mission is to ensure meaningful access to the justice system, especially for those with limited means. After representing a family whose baby was killed by a crib that collapsed on him, Shawn joined the Board of Directors of Kids In Danger, an organization started by the parents of the baby to inform the public of defective children products. Shawn continues to serve on the Board and assist the organization in its fundraising efforts. Shawn has also participated in a free legal services program at Pilgrim Baptist Church, which the firm supports by donating to the organization’s scholarship fund.

Robert J. Bingle, the firm's managing partner, is on the Board of Directors for the Spinal Cord Injury Association, serves on the Executive Committee of the Fenwick High School Board of Trustees and is a member of Boston College Parents’ Leadership Council.

Partner Daniel Kotin will be very busy for the next several years. He was recently appointed to the Board of Advisors for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago and to the Board of Directors for the Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program.

A member of the Law Alumni Board of Governors of Loyola University Chicago for many years, Susan Schwartz is currently President of the Board. She recently presented Frank R. Reynolds, Jr., the Francis J. Rooney / St. Thomas More Award at the School of Law Alumni Awards Luncheon.

Frank R. Reynolds, Jr., Susan Schwartz, David Yellen, Dean, School of Law

Attorney Michelle Kohut has served on the Board of Women Everywhere - Partners in Service Project, Inc., a community service project which seeks to open doors to women and children in need and to expose high school girls to challenging careers in the legal profession, for several years. She was recently elected President. 

Partner David "Chip" Barry, Jr., is a member of the Board of Trustees for the William Guy Forbeck Pediatric Cancer Foundation, a pediatric cancer research foundation headquartered in South Carolina. 

William Gibbs serves on the Advisory Board of the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to honoring the lives and memories of police officers

Attorney Daniel Kirschner serves as the Vice-Chair of the Chicago Regional Community Leadership Board of the American Cancer Society and is President of the IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law Alumni Board of Directors. He was recently appointed by Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn to the Illinois Carnival-Amusement Safety Board.

Our newest associate, Matthew Jenkins, didn’t waste any time joining in the "giving-back" spirit of the firm. Within a month of starting at Corboy & Demetrio, he became a member of the Young Professionals Board for the Center for Disability and Elder Law (CDEL) and a Board member of the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Alumni Board, Young Alumni Committee. He was recently appointed President of the Young Professionals Board for CDEL. 

One of our nurse legal consultants, Catherine Dunnington, is a Board member of the Cancer Care Foundation, a nonprofit organization that offers free counseling and support services to cancer patients and their families.

The firm’s administrator, Marcy Twardak, serves on the Board of Directors for Ovarian Cancer Symptom Awareness, an organization that seeks to educate women and men about ovarian cancer, the number one disease for gynecologic cancer deaths. She is also  on the Board of Directors for the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago and the Mundelein College Alumni Association. Additionally, she is a member of the Mercy Home Leader Council, an organization that works year round to improve the educational opportunities for the young men and women of Mercy Home.