An Illinois police chief is looking to prosecutors for guidance on whether to investigate a Leland Grove lawyer who says he paid more than $40,000 to a team of mother-daughter…
In what may be a record-breaking award to a single plaintiff in a sexual harassment case, a federal jury in East St. Louis, Ill., yesterday awarded $95 million to a…
Former White House counsel John Dean was convicted of obstruction of justice for his role in the Watergate cover-up, and he thinks his experience is instructive.
An Illinois lawyer recently admitted to the bar has been charged with prostitution after police say they discovered emails setting up trysts as part of an unrelated investigation.
Updated: An Illinois lawyer’s work on behalf of her own mother in a real estate matter and other conduct merits disbarment, a state hearing panel has recommended.
Impeached former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich took the stand today in his second political corruption trial, telling a federal jury in Chicago the story of his life.
A Chicago lawyer wants a judge to exclude a buxom woman from the opposing counsel’s table at an upcoming trial over a car dealership’s warranty on a used Cadillac.
After nearly two weeks of deliberations, two former partners of Jenkens & Gilchrist were convicted today by a federal jury in Manhattan on multiple counts in a tax-shelter case.
An assistant attorney general in Illinois has been accused in an ethics complaint of falsely claiming he was helping his grandmother look for apartments while he investigated the handicapped accessibility…
Chicago’s new mayor Rahm Emanuel has been talking about significant budget cuts, but his assistant corporation counsels’ jobs may be safe—the administration’s top lawyer, Stephen Patton, told the May 17, 2011 4:20 PM CDT
After a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that found Chicago’s entry-level firefighter test had a disparate impact based on race, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered…
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