An e-mail dispatched by the former law dean at the University of Illinois is less than enthusiastic about a state senator’s recommendation for the admission of one applicant.
An unidentified summer associate in the Chicago office of Mayer Brown may have swine flu, and another is showing possible symptoms of the H1N1 virus, although this has not yet…
After three current and former Chicago police detectives took the Fifth rather than testify in a post-conviction case concerning their alleged abuse of a capital murder suspect nearly 20 years…
In a rare public speech today, a high-profile Illinois prosecutor didn’t address a number of hot topics, such as the ongoing prosecution of impeached former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
A group of nuns covered almost from head to toe in black-and-gray habits came to the Kane County Courthouse in suburban Chicago today to attend a criminal trial concerning a…
Intentionally scraping a “metal object” along the passenger side of a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant’s BMW, in addition to claimed client neglect, could result in a one-year suspension for a…
Working as an associate on the 47th floor of a Chicago BigLaw firm’s offices, Michelle Obama initially thought she had gotten where she wanted to be in life.
In an Illinois case that has attracted international attention, a former police sergeant in suburban Chicago has reportedly just been indicted for murder in the death of his third wife.
A child support hearing in Chicago last week reportedly ended with an attorney for one of the parties being hauled off to spend the night in the Cook County Jail,…
Criminal investigators from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raided a suburban Chicago municipality today, presumably seeking information about the Village of Crestwood’s alleged provision of contaminated well water to the…
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