Arthur Andersen in-house lawyer Nancy Temple hit bottom in 2002 when she was advised to hire a criminal defense lawyer. Although she was never charged, her document cleanup advice was…
Threatened with possible contempt sanctions for taking his young daughter to church, Joseph Reyes as of today has the court’s permission to do so—and he can visit with her annually…
As lawyers today debated before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals whether a federal district judge should have sentenced an informercial pitchman to 30 days for flooding his in-box…
Prosecutors in the federal corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have asked a federal judge to force his one-time general counsel to testify.
As former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich awaits trial this summer in a federal corruption case, a $2.8 million campaign fund is covering his legal bill.
A onetime equity partner of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal who agreed to a “special partner” nonequity employment agreement in 2000 is back in the litigation ballgame.
An Illinois lawyer labeled “out of control” by federal appeals judge Richard Posner has been ordered to pay more than $635,000 to his former law partners for filing bad-faith lawsuits…
Lovells expects to close its approximately 20-lawyer Chicago office by the end of October. The decision was made after the firm conducted a strategic and financial review in…
A plaintiff in an Illinois lawsuit is seeking damages for a head injury she says she suffered when a movie theater armrest struck her as she was “discreetly” leaning down…
A former law student who is being held in lieu of $1 million bail after authorities reportedly found 1,600 handguns, knives and other weapons in his Chicago home last week…
Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay Calumet Park $3.2 million following news that a now-former partner of the firm is believed to have billed the suburban Chicago municipality for over…
In court in the Chicago area yesterday to represent the defendant in a hearing over a woman’s request for an order of protection in a domestic relations case, Dan Florey…
A now-former partner of Greenberg Traurig has been criminally charged with theft for allegedly overbilling a government client in the Chicago suburbs by more than $1 million.
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