CEO DATELINE - ABA general counsel dies from heart attack
CEO DATELINE - ABA general counsel dies from heart attack
- August 6, 2020 |
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Walt Williams
Jim Dimos, deputy executive director and general counsel of the American Bar Association, died Wednesday from a heart attack, the organization said in a statement.
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Dimos joined ABA five years ago as deputy executive director and assumed additional duties as general counsel in September 2019. As deputy executive director, Dimos was second-in-command of the association's staff, and through the years he was directly responsible for several functional areas, including membership, the professional services division, legal education and admission to the Bar, the Center on Public Interest Law, strategy development, and the operations of ABA's Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices. He also was the guiding force in the development and deployment of ABA's new value proposition, the association said.
"We are devastated by the loss of Jim Dimos. He was a big man with a great vision and huge accomplishments," ABA Executive Director Jack Rives said. "His contributions to the legal profession over more than three decades will endure. We will do our best to carry on his unfinished business. We miss him terribly."
Dimos worked in private practice for three decades and was a former member of ABA's Board of Governors. He was the former president of both the Indiana State Bar Association and Indianapolis Bar Association and a member of the Indiana Supreme Court's Pro Bono Commission.
He is survived by a wife, Kathy, and three children.
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