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.
Judge Byron In a faint echo of Madison County's class action craze, the Lakin Law Firm and three other firms settled a suit against Accredited Home Lenders for $10 payments to borrowers and a $250,000 legal fee.
Maag Thomas Maag's criminal trial on charges he solicited a sexual act from an undercover Granite City police sting has again been continued. Trial is now set for July 21.
Lakin MOUNT VERNON-The Fifth District Appellate Court affirmed a ruling by St. Clair County Circuit Judge Lloyd Cueto in a class action case against Dell in which Cueto found that a prohibition on class arbitration in Dell's arbitration clause was unenforceable, entering an order striking prohibition and compelling arbitration.
Ted Frank With Senator Barack Obama all but clinching the Democratic nomination, he begins the pivot to the center for the general election to better position himself to independents.
Chief Justice Thomas The Illinois Supreme Court announced a wide-ranging plan to build a technological infrastructure that would link electronically all the courts in the state's 23 judicial circuits and 102 counties.
Tillery Twice this year Madison County Associate Judge Ralph Mendelsohn has ruled against plaintiff attorney Stephen Tillery in a proposed class action against drug maker Pfizer, and both rulings have ended up in Mendelsohn's wastebasket.
Fitzgerald SPRINGFIELD--Thomas Fitzgerald will serve as the next chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, but will have little effect on the state's so-called judicial hellholes, a leading tort reformer said.
Maag Madison County Associate Judge Stephen Stobbs denied Thomas Maag's motion to suppress evidence in a criminal case that charges him with soliciting a sex act.
ConocoPhillips filed a motion to dismiss a benzene complaint alleging it contains insufficient facts and pleads numerous legal conclusions without a factual basis.
You won't find his name among the crowd of Yellow Page lawyers. The quality of his performance is such that he only accepts one in 40 cases that come by word of mouth or referral from other lawyers.
Downstate attorneys want Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack to strip $20 million from Illinois Bell or its Chicago area business customers and spread the money around among downstate business customers.
Hylla Three months after Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla announced a ruling in a class action against Cingular Wireless and told attorneys to write the ruling as an order, they haven't written it.
Copland NEW YORK - Jim Copland of the Manhattan Institute says his organization certainly doesn't oppose new business concepts. After all, the think tank's mission statement includes fostering new ideas that promote economic growth.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier will preside and administer the attorney's oath when 149 new attorneys are admitted to practice in ceremonies in Collinsville on Thursday, May 8.