A once-successful lawyer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to accept his cert petition and reverse a child porn conviction stemming from an affair he had with his wife’s16-year-old sister…
The state senate of Illinois today approved a proposed ban on capital punishment by a 32-25 vote, sending the bill, which was previously passed by the state house of representatives,…
A convicted burglar allegedly passed himself off as an Illinois lawyer and represented paying clients for at least five years before finally being caught when a court clerk in suburban…
The death of a female partner of Cozen O’Connor has put the law firm in the center of a dispute over a cutting-edge same-sex marriage issue—whether a marriage that is…
A 68-year-old Illinois lawyer accused of trying to smuggle drugs into a federal prison was reportedly shot early Thursday in the parking lot at Harrah’s casino in Metropolis.
An amended ethics complaint accuses an Illinois lawyer of joining a carpenters union to obtain health and pension benefits even though he didn’t work as a tradesman.
An avowed neo-Nazi who posted the photo, name, home address and phone number of a juror who helped convict self-proclaimed white supremacist Matthew Hale in 2004 of soliciting the murder…
Asked to overturn an administrative ruling that determined the former White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama remained a resident of Chicago while he worked in the nation’s…
A unique and extraordinary first-year law student with a promising future has died after somehow falling down the stairs at an exclusive Chicago club he was visiting with his father…
Defiant to the end, an Internet radio shock jock sought probation today for saying in a blog post that three federal appeals court judges in Chicago “deserved to be killed”…
Updated: A malpractice suit alleges a high-profile lawyer at Ungaretti & Harris authorized the destruction of documents despite a judge’s order requiring their preservation.
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