Republican heavyweights allegedly tried to use their influence with the White House to get U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald removed from office as he was pursuing a politically charged case against…
Long a critic of “inadequate” and “ill-trained” asylum courts, the 7th Circuit’s Richard Posner reportedly offered up some remedies in a speech Monday.
His own case is still ongoing, some seven years after his death. But tax attorney Burton Kanter’s wily plan for avoiding excessive payments in a nearly 20-year-old income tax matter…
A new federal law that requires merchants to remove from cash register receipts private information such as more than five digits of a credit card number apparently may have caught…
Convicted of participating in corrupt practices that sent a number of Illinois judges to prison under the 1980s federal sting operation known as Operation Greylord, Thomas Maloney served more than…
A student who wanted to wear a T-shirt to her high school that read “Be Happy, Not Gay” is getting some support from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Presidential contender Barack Obama, known for his oratorical skills, played the “strong, silent type” when he was practicing law, according to a feature Monday in the Chicago…
Lost in the news accounts of sentencing yesterday for Conrad Black, the ex-CEO of Hollinger International, was the sentence for the company’s former general counsel.
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