CunninghamBelleville attorney John Cunningham was Madison County's winningest civil defense attorney in 2014.In a review of Law Division cases at trial last year, Cunningham won three cases in which the plaintiff had sought more than $50,000 in damages.Cunningham, a shareholder at Brown & James in Belleville, specializes in the areas of first-party insurance claims and tort law, including arson
Two attorneys with Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C. qualified for membership in the "Million Dollar Advocates Forum" as a result of a seven-figure settlement in a Madison County personal injury lawsuit McDonald's.
What is it with Mick Jagger? If anyone should be sated by now, it should be him. So rich and so famous, at such a young age and for so long after, and so little real talent to justify any of it.
You can tell a man by the company he keeps.Birds of a feather flock together.Follow the money.Cui bono?He who pays the piper calls the tune.There's a cliché for every occasion and at least a kernel of truth in every one of them, no matter how stale or trite they may seem from frequent use.The ones above are particularly apt at election time, exhorting us to pay attention to the connections and commitments
A defendant in a Madison County auto accident case prevailed in a counter-claim against a fellow defendant in a two-day jury trial in Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's court.
Can you imagine Speaker of the House Mike Madigan at the Argosy Casino in Alton or the Casino Queen in East St. Louis? He’d be the guy at the highest-priced table, losing every hand and signing markers nonstop, always needing a fresh infusion of chips.
“Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen table is like mine,” then-Senator Joe Biden declaimed in 2008, after being selected by then-Senator Barack Obama to be the junior partner on the Democratic ticket for the U.S. presidential election. “You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that’s not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It’s a pretty