In the latest chapter of an ongoing saga about trusted employees who allegedly have stolen from law firms throughout the country, a former bookkeeper and office manager for a Chicago…
He was seeking $8 million. But a jury awarded former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen $2 million this week in his legal malpractice claim against a Windy City law firm,…
A six-month suspension has been recommended for an Illinois lawyer who repeatedly criticized a judge, calling him, at one point, a “narcissistic, maniacal mental case” during a telephone conversation with…
But this afternoon, a decorated former Chicago police lieutenant accused, along with officers under his command, of torturing scores of suspects to extract confessions…
An informant’s claim that a known thief and cocaine dealer told him he’d paid his unidentified female lawyer, who also happened to be a cocaine user, with two stolen laptop…
Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf in the latter part of his life, when he composed his famous Ninth Symphony. So attorney Daniel Eidsmoe doesn’t see being color-blind as a significant…
A famous former basketball player for the Chicago Bulls says he lost money because an Illinois law firm didn’t do enough due diligence on the trusted adviser who allegedly cost…
A Chicago lawyer who practices in the county traffic court is facing an ethics complaint that contends he used slurs to refer to colleagues competing for clients. He made the…
As opening statements were about to begin today in the much-publicized public corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich, a federal judge arguably saved the impeached former Illinois governor from himself, reports…
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