Last week, a start-up employment boutique in the Chicago suburbs had an attorney roster of exactly three—its name partners, all of whom formerly practiced for many years at Seyfarth Shaw.
Sixty students at the University of Chicago Law School will have their tuition paid in full thanks to a record $10 million gift from a 1973 graduate who himself got…
A Jewish employee at an Illinois Chrysler assembly plant, who alleges he experienced religious and ethnic harassment at work, won a $4.2 million federal jury verdict this week.
In the latest example of a snowballing trend among BigLaw attorneys, three partners at Seyfarth Shaw have left the well-known Chicago-based firm to establish a smaller suburban firm that will,…
A librarian at Rod Blagojevich’s alma mater, Northwestern University, says he has found confidential attorney-client papers in 18 boxes of files, photos and videotapes he purchased in an auction.
A study of Chicago-area courts found that public defenders often are just as effective as private lawyers in persuading judges to grant bail, accept plea bargains and sentence defendants appropriately.
A Chicago-area mother and daughter risk losing their condo in a tax sale because of their objections to an alley paving project that violated their religious beliefs.
A Chicago area teen claims in a lawsuit that her high school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it barred her from playing basketball with the help of her…
Legal thriller author Scott Turow sees a connection between Rod Blagojevich’s conviction on just one count of lying to the FBI and “the hypocritical mess our…
After two weeks of deliberation, a federal jury in Chicago has reached a verdict in the political corruption trial against impeached former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
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