Senior Star Resident Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Senior Star at Weber Place is proud to announce that resident Myles Jacobs has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois Bar Association’s Real Estate Law Section. Jacobs earned this prestigious award for his many years of dedication, service and guidance to the Illinois legal community.

As a practicing attorney at 86 years old, Jacobs is no stranger to life in the legal profession, one that his grade school classmates predicted decades ago. “I recently looked back at an old year book from elementary school and one of my classmates wrote in my book that I was going to be a lawyer someday,” he said.

Jacobs has been an avid reader and conversationalist on current events for most of his life, having been exposed at college to famous thinkers such as Thurgood Marshall. He credits his quest for knowledge of worldly events to the President of Dartmouth College who encouraged students to discuss great issues and did not want attorneys that were only book smart. Still on the hunt to discuss today’s relevant topics, Jacobs initiated a monthly program on current events at Senior Star at Weber Place and at the Joliet Jewish Congregation. Every month he chooses a subject applicable to what is happening in the world today for anyone who wants to join in the discussion.

A longtime resident of Joliet, Jacobs began working for Castle Law Firm in Joliet many year ago and today serves as Of Counsel for the firm where he speaks at seminars, reviews cases and coordinates their continuing education program. Jacobs is representing the firm on May 19 at a presentation by the Illinois Bar Association, Real Estate Law Section, at Northern Illinois University in Naperville where he will be co-presenting a program with Senior Star and another attorney on senior housing alternatives and related topics.

Jacobs graduated with an A.B. from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. In addition, he has contributed to numerous publications during his career.