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BELLEVILLE – Injury lawyer Jason Caraway kept about $770,000 that belonged to clients, according to Illinois attorney registration and disciplinary commissioners.
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BELLEVILLE – Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has sided with legal researcher Brad Van Hoose in numerous requests for government records, but now he blocks Van Hoose’s access to records about Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson.
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LIVE WEB - The Role and Benefits of Professionalism: Perspectives from the Bench and Beyond on March 3, 2022.
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Illinois Supreme Court rules state it is considered “professional misconduct for a lawyer to… engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation"
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Nearly five years ago at the St. Clair Country Club, attorney Margaret Lowery overheard something she wasn’t meant to hear. She repeated it to authorities, and ever since, trouble has followed in the form of bar complaints.
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BELLEVILLE – Brad Van Hoose of Belleville claims in circuit court that judges sealed and expunged cases to protect Chief Circuit Judge Andrew Gleeson.
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Edwardsville attorney Todd Sivia admits that he had a “lapse in judgment” when he failed to communicate a conflict of interest to his client, resulting in a censure by the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC).
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SPRINGFIELD – Attorney Margaret Lowery of Belleville didn’t harm Chief Circuit Judge Andrew Gleeson as he alleged, a hearing board of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission ruled on Nov. 10.
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A vacancy in office exists for the position of at large circuit judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit following the retirement of Judge Eugene P. Daugherity.
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The Illinois Supreme Court announced this week the expansion of the Volunteer Pro Bono Program for Criminal Appeals (Program) to include the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Appellate Districts beginning on December 1, 2020.
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EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty has dismissed a wrongful termination complaint filed by former U.S. attorney Stephen Wigginton without prejudice, finding it devoid of details.
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On August 17, Illinois’ Fourth District Appellate Court delivered a resounding victory to HeplerBroom’s hog farming clients and to livestock farmers throughout the state of Illinois.
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EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County Treasurer Chris Slusser is being accused of defamation in a lawsuit filed Monday by former county administrator Duog Hulme.
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CHICAGO – Former insurance broker Michael Segal, subject of a 2019 book holding his criminal conviction up as a disgrace, laments the lack of accountability for prosecutorial misconduct.
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Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas L. Kilbride has announced an application process for an appointment to a Resident Circuit Judge vacancy in Marshall County in the Tenth Judicial Circuit.
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SPRINGFIELD – Attorney regulators filed a complaint against Ron Duebbert on May 5, over conduct that cost him his job as circuit judge.
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SPRINGFIELD – Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court suspended Belleville lawyer Paul Storment, Jr., 83, for a year on May 18.
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Reviewing and recommending revisions to the rules of conduct for lawyers in Illinois is the charge of a task force created by the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Foundation. The CBA/CBF Task Force of Sustainable Practice of Law & Innovation committees are designed to address multiple issues facing lawyers in Illinois.
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BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle dismissed a class action that former district judge Michael Reagan certified on a claim that hackers could seize control of certain Chrysler vehicles.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission alleges Belleville attorney Margaret Lowery made false or reckless statements about Twentieth Circuit Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson.
