Scott CHICAGO - Russell K. Scott, a senior litigation officer with Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. in Belleville, and co-manager of the firm's Southern Illinois Practice Group, has been elected secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).
Tillery SPRINGFIELD – Marketers of time share lodging in Branson seek relief at the Illinois Supreme Court from a St. Clair County class action that could bankrupt their business.
Cueto A move to take a legal malpractice case filed by a break-away Roman Catholic church against its former attorneys to a Missouri court is set for hearing next week before a St. Clair County judge.
A hearing is set on a move that, if granted, would send a legal malpractice suit filed by a break-away Roman Catholic Church against its former lawyers to Missouri.
The Rev. Marek The law firm being sued by its former clients in a dispute over who owns and controls St. Stanislaus Koska Roman Catholic Church is asking to take the case across the river to St. Louis.
St. Clair County Circuit Judge Patrick Young is set to hear arguments on a motion to compel in a legal malpractice case brought by Belleville surgeon Dr. Bill Daily against the Greensfelder firm in Swansea.
An alleged scheme involving cattle swapping netted a St. Clair County dairy farmer tens of thousands of dollars in profits, but will also force the farmer to defend himself in court, according to a recently filed complaint.
McGlynn Belleville attorney Stephen McGlynn has been appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court as circuit judge in St. Clair County's 20th Judicial Circuit.
A St. Clair County company claims its insurance company did not provide it with an acceptable defense lawyer and is seeking to reclaim the more than $300,000 it spent on its own lawyer.
Home Pharmacy Services has filed suit an O'Fallon nursing home that closed in January 2008, alleging it breached its contract when it failed to pay for pharmaceutical services provided to it.
SPRINGFIELD – Congress collects income taxes, and a Congressman's son will collect sales taxes if Illinois legislators stick with a plan for a 900 acre mall where Illinois Route 157 meets Interstate 270 in Glen Carbon.
A doctor and president of Cardiothoracic Surgery Associates has filed suit against the law firm Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale, alleging attorneys at the firm used knowledge from serving as prior general counsel to CSA to the company's disadvantage in a lawsuit against it.
Stack Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon Enterprises will pay the village of Hartford $550,000 and Premcor Refining will pay $500,000 under an agreement that village trustees and the companies reached in February.
Russell Scott Russell K. Scott of Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale of Belleville and St. Louis has been elected to the 2009 Class of Laureates of The Academy of Illinois Lawyers of the Illinois State Bar Association.