Many a proud parent is watching a child graduate from law school this month after years of hard work and hefty expense. But for attorney Daniel Formeller…
A CVS employee in Chicago who tackled a suspected shoplifter and held him in a chokehold isn’t expected to be charged in the man’s strangulation death.
Asked at the last minute to give a friend a ride to a suburban Chicago courthouse on Monday, 19-year-old Jennifer LaPenta got behind the wheel still dressed for the gym…
Foley & Lardner has amped up its insurance and reinsurance litigation practice with the addition of a seven-lawyer group that formerly practiced in the May 5, 2010 9:15 PM CDT
After a 23-year gap, attorney and best-selling author Scott Turow has brought the lead character of one of his best-known legal thrillers back into the spotlight again…
A defendant on home confinement while awaiting trial in a video gambling case can walk his daughter down the aisle during her August wedding, a federal judge in Chicago has…
Saying that a defense motion fell “very short” of establishing a need to subpoena the president of the United States to testify in the upcoming political corruption trial of former…
Attorneys for impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich today filed a motion asking a federal judge in Chicago to subpoena President Barack Obama to testify at Blagojevich’s upcoming corruption trial.
Arthur Andersen in-house lawyer Nancy Temple hit bottom in 2002 when she was advised to hire a criminal defense lawyer. Although she was never charged, her document cleanup advice was…
Threatened with possible contempt sanctions for taking his young daughter to church, Joseph Reyes as of today has the court’s permission to do so—and he can visit with her annually…
As lawyers today debated before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals whether a federal district judge should have sentenced an informercial pitchman to 30 days for flooding his in-box…
Prosecutors in the federal corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have asked a federal judge to force his one-time general counsel to testify.
As former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich awaits trial this summer in a federal corruption case, a $2.8 million campaign fund is covering his legal bill.
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