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Reset Form

4:17-cv-00205-HSG

BESTWAY (USA) INC.; BESTWAY (HONG

KONG) INTERNATIONAL LTD.; and 

BESTWAY INFLATABLES AND MATERIAL

CORPORATION,

PIETRO PASQUALE-ANTONIO SGROMO (a/k/a

PETER ANTHONY SGROMO); WAGMORE &

BARKLESS LLC; LEONARD GREGORY SCOTT;

and EUREKA INVENTIONS LLC.

William J. Kraus

Illinois

Plaintiffs

Brent Allen Hawkins

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

77 W. Wacker Drive, Suite 500

Chicago, Illinois 60601

(312) 324-1000

william.kraus@morganlewis.com

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

One Market, Spear Street Tower

San Francisco, California 94105

(415) 442-1000

brent.hawkins@morganlewis.com

6300255

William J. Kraus

September 12, 2018 /s/ William J. Kraus 

9/14/2018
Certificate of Admission

To the Bar of Illinois

I, Carolyn Taft Grosboll, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Illinois, do hereby certify that

William James Kraus, III

has been duly licensed and admitted to practice as an Attorney and Counselor at

Law within this State; has duly taken the required oath to support the

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES and of the STATE OF ILLINOIS, and

also the oath of office prescribed by law, that said name was entered upon the Roll

of Attorneys and Counselors in my office on 11/05/2009 and is in good standing, so

far as the records of this office disclose.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto

subscribed my name and affixed the

seal of said Court, this 11th day of

September, 2018.

Clerk.

Supreme Court of the State of Illinois