A former partner at Seyfarth Shaw has been accused in a Justice Department complaint of selling sham tax shelters that resulted in $370 million in improper deductions.
Updated: Four Chicago election judges were arrested today, including two who were allegedly drunk, one who was accused of yanking a provisional ballot out of a voter’s hands and another…
In a partial victory for Conrad Black, a federal appeals court has axed two “honest services” fraud verdicts against the media mogul. However, it upheld a verdict that he was…
A lawsuit accuses a law firm representing the Archdiocese of St. Louis of getting the secretary for a rebel Catholic parish to act as a spy and manipulating the parish’s…
Updated: For 15 days, six partners at Wildman Harrold were hoping that the Chicago law firm would allow them to jump to Barnes & Thornburg sooner rather than later.
A shuttered debt-collection law firm has been found liable for $23.7 million in a suit claiming it withheld money from a onetime client: an Illinois agency pursuing debtors who defaulted…
On Thursday, University of California, Los Angeles law professor Adam Winkler was tweeting about his favorite Tony Curtis movie and an undocumented immigrant housekeeper hired by a…
Arrested for allegedly visiting a house of ill fame and handcuffed to a prostitute in the back of a Chicago police vehicle last year, attorney Steven Koukios agreed to do…
A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for throwing an egg at the judge overseeing the case against him for missed child support payments.
An ethics complaint accuses a longtime Chicago prosecutor of lying to a blogger about a past disciplinary probe and making sarcastic closing arguments.
A federal court in Chicago has dismissed a misdemeanor case against a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested in July while trying to conduct a courthouse lobby interview of…
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