SPRINGFIELD — Wood River attorney Thomas Grodon Maag faces suspension following a Sept. 16 Illinois Supreme Court decision for allegedly taking a client's house as payment for legal fees without advising the client that the transaction posed a conflict of interest.
BELLEVILLE – A Belleville-based attorney with 40 years of experience, mostly in litigation, has received the Illinois State Bar Association's Medal of Merit Award.
A Cook County judge could soon weigh in on a legal fight between Illinois’ largest association of lawyers and a state regulatory agency, over the question of whether that state agency has the authority to effectively bar Illinois property tax lawyers from offering estimates of a property’s value when representing property owners before a state or county property tax appeal board.
