Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade has filed a libel suit against his estranged wife and her lawyers for allegations in a divorce filing that he had an affair and contracted…
A prosecutor in the capital of Illinois is reviewing whether Sen. Roland Burris may have violated perjury laws by giving differing accounts to state lawmakers about his contacts and fund-raising…
“Have a great weekend, and rock on!” Dave Milberg’s upbeat, hipster parting caught us off guard after our call with Schiff Hardin’s marketing and communications director for a story last…
Although best-remembered as a U.S. president at a time of national turmoil, Abraham Lincoln was also a skilled trial lawyer who at one point argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
When Chicago attorney Sam Adam was asked recently by a television crew why fellow counsel Ed Genson was planning to leave the legal defense team for now-former Ill. Gov. Rod…
A Catholic bishop has written a letter to Central Illinois parishes that questions the motives of lawyers representing priest abuse victims and expresses fear that the church is being treated…
The FBI searched the suburban Boston home yesterday of a man convicted of extortion in the 1982 Tylenol killings, hauling away five boxes and a Macintosh computer.
In what the U.S. Department of Justice describes as an unprecedented ruling, a federal judge in Chicago yesterday ordered the FBI to search its massive national DNA database to see…
Updated: A Chicago-area litigator switches business attire for roller skates in the evening when she competes in the roller derby as a member of the Windy City…
An “overwhelming” yes vote today by partners of both firms has made it official: Pittsburgh-based K&L Gates and Chicago’s Bell Boyd & Lloyd will merge March 1.
Breaking away from reports of attorney layoffs, this week we spoke to four law firms taking advantage of the recent spate of law firm mergers and downsizing to hire pools…
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