About Paul Osborn

Mr. Osborn serves with the Illinois State Bar Association as a member of the Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Section Council, 1994-2002 and 2010-present, Chairperson 2000-2001. He also served four years on the Family Law Section Council and is now in the 20th year on the Continuing Legal Education Committee, for which he served as Chairperson from 2007-2009, the first years in which MCLE compliance reporting was required. As a CLE Committee member, he has served as liaison to the State and Local Tax Section Council since 2014. Incoming ISBA President Rory Weiler reappointed Mr. Osborn to the Commercial Banking Council and the CLE Committee for the 2022-2023 term.

Mr. Osborn has been a featured speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars on bankruptcy and family law matters, and has also presented programs to a variety of Bankers’ groups. After the passage of revisions to Article 9 of Illinois’ Uniform Commercial Code, he made presentations on the effects of the revisions. He also has made presentations to Northwest Illinois bankers on topics ranging from BAPCPA, participation agreements, letters of credit, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Dodd-Frank, mortgage modifications, and ag loan workouts.

Wearing his family law hat, in October 2004, he presented programs in Chicago and Bloomington on creative drafting in marital settlement agreements. In April 2005, he spoke in New Orleans on cross-examination techniques; January 2006 in Bloomington, Illinois on divorce for farmers; October 2006 in Collinsville and Chicago, Illinois on avoiding pitfalls in marital settlement agreements; and in December 2007 in Chicago and Springfield on discovery techniques. In June 2008, he moderated three programs on professionalism at the annual meeting of the ISBA in St. Louis. In 2009, he has made presentations at seminars in Edwardsville and Chicago and moderated the ISBA’s Basic Skills programs for new admittees.