The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts announced Friday that attorney Veronica Armouti has been appointed an associate in the Third Judicial Circuit to fill the vacancy left when former judge Jennifer Hightower was not reappointed to the bench.
After the United States unsuccessfully urged U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle to alter her order denying dismissal in an opioid false claim suit, several drug makers and retailer CVS now seek dismissal arguing that the False Claims Act precludes the action.
A St. Louis law firm and two attorneys argue that Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan erred when he denied their motion to dismiss a legal malpractice suit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $785,000 jury verdict.
Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan granted Midwest Sanitary Service’s motion to compel an Edwardsville law firm and two attorneys to answer interrogatories in a legal malpractice suit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $785,000 jury verdict.
Midwest Sanitary Service and two employees urge Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan to deny an Edwardsville law firm’s motion to dismiss a legal malpractice suit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $780,000 jury verdict.
HeplerBroom welcomes second-year law students Berta Brazdeikyte, Hayley Dorfman, Nicholas Scholz, and Paige Thielen to its 2019 Class of Summer Associates.
Recently, the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois decertified a gender discrimination collective action against a medical school.
Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan took an Edwardsville law firm’s motion to dismiss under advisement in a former client’s legal malpractice lawsuit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $780,000 jury verdict.
Michael Murphy, Daniel Siegfried, and Melissa Brown will be among the featured speakers at the Illinois State Bar Association’s 18th Annual Environmental Law Conference.
Bharat Varadachari recently obtained a defense verdict from a St. Clair County, Illinois, jury in a disputed liability case arising out of an automobile accident.
District Judge Staci Yandle denied the United States’ motion to dismiss an opioid suit for wasting the government’s time, which alleges drug makers and retailer CVS participated in a kickback scheme by providing free nursing and reimbursement support services.
Low-income housing: good thing or bad thing? It all depends on your perspective. For persons with low income, low-income housing and rental units are not only good, but necessary.
BENTON – A housing development business owned by former NCAA basketball referee and educator Ed Hightower is accused of lying in a discrimination lawsuit the business is pursuing against the City of Alton, Hightower's hometown.
A frequent target of asbestos litigation, Crane Co. appears to have substituted counsel with a St. Louis asbestos defense firm in all of its local pending asbestos cases in early January.
Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan granted in part an Edwardsville law firm and two attorneys’ motion to dismiss a former client’s legal malpractice lawsuit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $780,000 jury verdict.
In a split decision, an Illinois appeals panel has stripped Allstate Insurance of its defenses against a class action, which alleged the company unfairly billed long-term auto policyholders more than it charged new ones, saying Illinois insurers can’t protect their rates from lawsuits, because their rates are not controlled by the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Twelve area attorneys have applied for the associate judge position that opened after Sarah Smith was elected circuit judge in Madison County in November, including the co-founder of what has become a national asbestos law firm.
Midwest litigation firm HeplerBroom has announced that Kevin Birkenmeier, Pamela Gamble, Charles Insler, Katie Jacobi, and Christian Willenborg, M.D., have been elected partners of the firm.
