Kilbride CHICAGO - The Illinois State Bar Association's (ISBA) 7th Annual Solo and Small Firm conference will be held Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 27-29 at the Hilton Springfield, 700 E. Adams St., in Springfield.
Schroeder Madison County Associate Judge Thomas Chapman must decide whether former Circuit Judge Daniel Stack signed contradictory orders a week before he retired.
We all have favorite causes: charitable groups, social groups, political groups. We might not mind other people knowing what charity we support. After all, it's likely to be our church, the United Way, or an organization fighting a disease that claimed a loved one.
Herndon Students interested in exploring careers in law and how the federal judicial system works will have a chance to hear about a program relevant to them when Chief Judge David R. Herndon visits
local high schools this month to promote the second annual Judge Joseph F. Cunningham Fellowship Program.
As we had long advocated and anticipated, the Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the $43 million judgment against Ford Motor Co. in the Jablonski case.
Bast SPRINGFIELD – Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge must carry out Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's order requiring agricultural trade groups, researchers and consultants to disclose their activities to Stephen Tillery, who hasn't sued any of them.
Garman SPRINGFIELD – Supreme Court Justices unwisely postponed their day of decision on Stephen Tillery's bid to restore a $10 billion judgment against cigarette maker Philip Morris, according to Justice Rita Garman.
Lakin SPRINGFIELD – Class actions that the former Lakin Law Firm started against insurers Travelers and Safeco on the same day ended in failure on the same day.
Martin After 11 years on the losing end of a Madison County class action stronger than death, American Family Mutual Insurance pleads to put it to rest.
Murnane As many as 175 judicial election contests -- including two Supreme Court races -- could be on the Illinois General Election ballot in November 2012.
You see it happen in some fundraising organizations. People get together and form a group to advance a worthy cause and then start raising funds to support the group's efforts. Raising the funds is a means to an end.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier SPRINGFIELD – Lawyers aiming to reopen a $1 billion class action against State Farm and disqualify Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier from hearing it haven't brought out any new evidence, according to State Farm.
SPRINGFIELD – Ford Motor Co. undertook no duty to warn luxury car owners that contents of their trunks could puncture their fuel tanks when Ford helped police prevent punctures in similar cars, the Illinois Supreme Court decided on Sept. 22.
I constantly remind Republicans and Tea Partiers that the same civil justice system used by trial lawyers to file medical malpractice and product liability cases is also utilized by conservative trial lawyers to file civil suits to protect property rights, religious liberty, gun owners' rights, and parental rights from government at all levels.
Tauber SPRINGFIELD – Six of eight state supreme courts have rejected claims of second hand asbestos exposure, according to a CSX Transportation lawyer who wants the Illinois Supreme Court to deliver a seventh blow to second hand claims.
Wisnasky-Bettorf SPRINGFIELD – Whitney Wisnasky-Bettorf can't regain her spot on last year's ballot in St. Clair County, but she asks the Illinois Supreme Court to make sure no one else loses a spot the same way.
LakinChapman lawyers who carried on a Madison County class action against American Family Insurance with a dead client for three years find a substitute suffers a more serious deficiency.
Karmeier SPRINGFIELD – State Farm Insurance bought Lloyd Karmeier a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court to escape a billion dollar judgment, according to lawyers who want the billion back.