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Recent News About Illinois Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Commission (ARDC)
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Hearing to be held on changes to lawyer fee arrangements
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Verett's suspension to begin Oct. 8
Edwardsville attorney Amanda Verett's 90-day suspension will begin Oct. 8, according to a recent Illinois Supreme Court order. -
ARDC recommends Verett be suspended 90 days
SPRINGFIELD-If the Illinois Supreme Court accepts the recommendation of the state's legal watchdog, Edwardsville attorney Amanda Verett will face a 90 day suspension of her law license. -
Lawyer-rating site loses Supreme Court battle
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an Internet site that allows clients to rate their lawyer's performance is not entitled to a list of attorneys in the state. -
Go Avvo!
Congress is prohibited from making laws that prohibit free speech. But that doesn't mean Illinois lawyers cannot enact their own rules that do, if only to prevent others from talking about them. -
Lawyer rating site appeals to Illinois Supreme Court
SPRINGFIELD - An Internet site that allows clients to rate their lawyer's performance has hit a snag in its effort to expand into Illinois, and has asked for the state Supreme Court's help. -
Annuity investors defrauded says Cueto class action suit
A class action complaint has been filed in Madison County Circuit Court against Morgan Keegan & Company, MetLife, and Regions Financial Corporation alleging the defendants violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act. -
ARDC files complaint against Verett for making false statements to Missouri judge
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) filed a two-count complaint against Edwardsville attorney Amanda Verett alleging she engaged in conduct that "tends to...bring the courts or the legal profession into disrepute." -
ISC Rules Committee to hold hearing on proposed changes
The Rules Committee of the Illinois Supreme Court will hear comments at a public hearing next week on several proposals, including the regulation of attorneys licensed outside of Illinois who want to appear in a specific proceeding in Illinois. -
Maag wants to prevent prosecutors from saying 'plaintiff attorney' at trial
Thomas Gordon Maag Thomas Maag doesn't want evidence related to his position as a "prominent Madison County plaintiff's attorney" brought up in court while being prosecuted for soliciting a prostitute, according to a recent court filing. -
Judge in Orbitz case blasts defendants' motion to depose Fairview Heights aldermen
Richard Burke Conveniently forget on U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Wilkerson's watch, and he's one to forgive. -
Maag pleads not guilty, requests speedy trial in solicitation case
Thomas Maag An attorney representing Thomas Maag in his criminal case for soliciting a prostitute filed a motion asking for a speedy trial. -
Appellate court candidate's son files national class action against AT&T, Cingular
David Cates An attorney whose Illinois law career is not quite one-year-old has filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless claiming the cellular providers fraudulently induced customers post merger into buying new phones. -
Lawyer scratches old wound as former courtroom allies wage battle
Richard Burke Attorneys at Freed and Weiss in Chicago cheated a man out of $250,000 according to a letter Brad Lakin submitted to Madison County Associate Judge Richard Tognarelli. But the apparent victim says it didn't happen. -
Burke apologizes to court for bad memory
Richard Burke Attorney Richard Burke, representing the city of Fairview Heights, denied at an Aug. 29 hearing that a discovery dispute existed between him and opposing attorneys. But before the day ended he admitted it. -
Forum battle in attorneys' war is for judge to figure out
Brad Lakin Now that the Lakin Law Firm has sued Chicago attorneys in Madison County and Chicago attorneys have sued the Lakins in Cook County, somebody has to figure out who sued first. -
Lakin firm persuades Byron to boot Burke from class action
Richard Burke Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron, who once ordered Allstate Insurance attorney Troy Bozarth out of a hearing at the request of the Lakin Law Firm, passed up a chance to do it again. -
Peel's law license in jeopardy
Facing up to 40 years in prison, attorney Gary Peel, 63, of Glen Carbon will be sentenced June 25 in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis. -
Trouble mounts for Lakins: Freed & Weiss file suit in Cook County
A local law firm that used to round up plaintiffs for a nationwide class action firm has allegedly been cheating its master. -
Pot v. Kettle
When he looks in the mirror, plaintiff's attorney Richard Burke sees Albert Pujols, summarily kicked off the Cardinals by Tony LaRussa's sniveling, incompetent son appointed successor.