1917 ABA Journal Illinois articles.
A suburban Chicago couple has been convicted for allowing an underage drinking party in their home that had deadly consequences.
Jeffrey and Sara Hutsell were convicted yesterday of child endangerment…
Jul 23, 2007 3:46 AM CDT
Officials describe a bacchanalian scene: a basement that smelled of alcohol and was littered with beer cans as teens played beer pong on the family ping-pong table. But Jeffrey and…
Jul 18, 2007 5:46 PM CDT
Throughout the country, prisons are run in a paramilitary manner that seems to work for men. But it’s not nearly as effective for young women, experts believe.
So, as the…
Jul 16, 2007 6:35 PM CDT
Sprint-Nextel Corp. essentially scored an own goal, an Illinois appeals court says, by including in its adhesionary form contract a choice-of-law provision that allows customers to bring a national class…
Jul 12, 2007 9:08 PM CDT
It’s not always easy to stay the course as a midsize Chicago law firm. Some major corporate clients prefer to work with large law firms, and economies of scale that…
Jul 11, 2007 6:22 PM CDT
Criminal courts in the Chicago area are expected to operate in slow motion today, as up to two-thirds of the 520 prosecutors in Cook County’s felony courtrooms take the day…
Jul 10, 2007 6:00 PM CDT
It isn’t just defendants and jurors who have been pushing their luck lately by blogging about their case while it is at trial. An attorney representing an alleged mobster in…
Jul 10, 2007 1:06 AM CDT
As builders throughout the country rushed to profit in the recent construction boom, a number of homes and developments went up that were badly built or otherwise created problems. But…
Jul 7, 2007 12:39 AM CDT
After a suburban Chicago prosecutor drank, drove and died May 11 in an auto accident that seriously injured another motorist, the top prosecutor in a neighboring county announced a strict…
Jul 5, 2007 5:21 PM CDT
A hiring spree by local law firms is in part responsible for a drop in office vacancies and a rise in office rents in Chicago.
Financial services firms and law…
Jul 3, 2007 8:10 PM CDT
By day, Todd Kooperman practices law with the Cook County public guardian’s office. But by night he can often be found prowling back alleys in affluent neighborhoods in and around…
Jul 3, 2007 1:17 AM CDT
Ice Miller has established a new presence in the Chicago suburbs in DuPage County by taking over a 14-lawyer satellite office of Chicago’s Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon.
The Indianapolis…
Jul 2, 2007 10:21 PM CDT
Although it hasn’t yet caused a rush to the courthouse door, state prosecutors in Cook County, Illinois, due to a budgeting quirk, earn less than public defenders. On average, they…
Jul 2, 2007 8:51 PM CDT
After a busy day in the classroom, this teacher gets her solo practice going
Jul 1, 2007 11:31 PM CDT
Three not-so-little pigs living in the upscale Chicago suburb of Lake Forest didn’t, of course, have to worry about a wolf huffing and puffing and blowing their rickety house down.…
Jun 27, 2007 7:25 PM CDT
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