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If the answer to ANY of the questions below is yes, please attach a brief description of the
incident(s) and the petitioner’s current status before any court, or agency thereof, where
disciplinary sanctions were imposed or where an investigation or investigations of the
petitioner’s conduct may have been instituted.
Has the petitioner ever been censured, suspended, disbarred, or otherwise
disciplined by any court?
Yes No
Has the petitioner ever been, or is the petitioner currently, the subject of
an investigation of the petitioner’s professional conduct?
Yes No
Has the petitioner ever been transferred to inactive status, voluntarily
withdrawn, or resigned from the bar of any court?
Yes No
Has the petitioner ever been denied admission to the bar of any court
(not including a denial resulting from the failure to pass a bar examination)?
Yes No
Has the petitioner ever been held in contempt of court? Yes No
I, the above-named, do hereby petition for admission to the general bar of the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In support of this petition, I state that (a) I
have read each of the answers provided on this petition and they are each true and correct, (b) I
have read and will faithfully adhere to the Rules of Professional Conduct for the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and (c) I have read and faithfully adhere to the
Standards for Professional Conduct within the Seventh Federal Judicial Circuit. I declare under
penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
_________________________________ ______________________________
Date Signature
(“Wet” signature required.)
• Petitioner must sign the Oath of Office prior to filing the petition (LR 83.10(e)).
• Petitioner may choose whether to appear in person before a judge to be admitted. Petitioner
shall make their own appointment to appear by contacting the emergency judge.(See
Judges page for current emergency judge.) Select the appropriate form for in-person oath.
• Select appropriate form:
Oath of Office form HERE.
In-person Oath with a judge form HERE.