Joe Whyte Last week Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber and Lakin Law Firm attorney Charles Chapman were seen breaking bread together at a popular Main Street watering hole in Edwardsville.
Lawyers from the Lakin Law Firm subpoenaed a Belleville News-Democrat reporter on short notice Monday to testify at a hearing on the alleged bias of Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber.
Republican Jim Oberweis hammered away at his primary rivals, aiming his strongest attacks at Judy Baar Topinka. Oberweis' downstate campaign was well-organized and vigorous. In Madison and St. Clair counties, he received 63 percent more votes than Topinka. Family dysfunction in the GOP and an unwelcome snow storm on the first day of spring contributed to an abysmally low voter turn-out in the primary election March 21.
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended Thomas Hildebrand from the practice of law for repeated conflicts of interest and dishonesty.
Judge Byron Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron granted the Lakin Law Firm three extra weeks to preserve a class action against insurer GEICO, after the firm blamed its tardy response on the departure of Thomas Maag.
Carol Kugler, candidate for state representative in the 112th District She called it her official announcement, but it was more like a re-assertion of candidacy.
Appellate Court Judge Steve McGlynn Even though most voters will have no choice in the primary election that looms a week away, a vault of information about Illinois' 165 judicial candidates can be found in a single search at IllinoisJudges.net.
The U.S. Supreme Court didn't give its reasons for passing on a review of Avery, Southern Illinois' $1 billion verdict against State Farm rejected by our state's Supremes last summer, but we can fashion some pretty good ones of our own.
Jeffrey Millar Plaintiffs in a class action against insurer GEICO have not responded to a motion to decertify their class under the Avery decision of the Illinois Supreme Court, according to GEICO attorneys.
While attorney Thomas Hildebrand waits for the Illinois Supreme Court to decide his future in the practice of law, Madison County Circuit Judge Lola Maddox gets to decide if Hildebrand deserves six chances to obey a court order.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week refused to hear whether Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier's participation in a landmark ruling in favor of State Farm Insurance was improper.
"Only lawyers think that way," remarked the downstate handler for dairyman GOP candidate for Governor Jim Oberweis, when Madison County attorney Thomas Maag demanded $250 per day rent for a misplaced campaign sign.
In a 4-3 ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed St. Clair County's Circuit Judge Lloyd Cueto's decision to deny a motion to transfer a wrongful death case to Clinton County based on the doctrine of forum non conveniens.
Cheryl Niro The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed a former Illinois State Bar Association president to head a new agency dedicated to improving civility among lawyers.
Former East St. Louis City Council member and chairman of the East St. Louis Democratic Party Charles Powell Jr., 61, was sentenced tto 21 months in prison for conspiring to buy votes.
Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission administrator Mary Robinson wants the Illinois Supreme Court to suspend attorney Thomas Hildebrand from the practice of law indefinitely.
Former Fifth District Appellate Court Judge Gordon Maag must wait for ahis former colleagues to rule whether his $110 million defamation lawsuit canned by a state judge can be revived, before a similar federal lawsuit can proceed.