Armettia Peach, who paid $20,000 down on a house in $20 bills, watched someone else take the title, moved in, sued Granite City over a leaky roof, won more than $100,000, and then lost it, has settled the suit.
A legislative proposal that shifts the burden of compensation to the party with the most money rather than the most responsibility in tort cases will be debated in a state House committee hearing on May 16.
Paul Marks On the day Mark Brown of the Lakin Law Firm bargained a class action down to a penny before Madison County Circuit Judge Dave Hylla, Paul Marks abandoned three accusations in a Lakin class action before Hylla.
Nick Byron Five years ago Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron ordered Allstate defense attorney Troy Bozarth out of a hearing and chased Chicago attorneys out of town for the Lakin Law Firm.
Tom Lakin Prominent Metro-East plaintiff's lawyer and Lakin Law Firm founder Tom Lakin was indicted on seven counts by a federal grand jury in East St. Louis.
Don Weber MOUNT VERNON – Appellate judges affirmed the only decision former Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber rendered in favor of the Lakin Law Firm.
Almost one year after allegations of sexual assault were revealed in a civil lawsuit against Madison County attorney Thomas Lakin, some of his accusers paid a visit to the federal courthouse in East St. Louis on Tuesday.
Fairview Heights Mayor Gail Mitchell has some nerve asking a federal court to hide files of a very public class action lawsuit-- one he himself filed on behalf of each and every one of us-- from we the people's view.
Tom Lakin SPRINGFIELD – Lakin Law Firm founder Tom Lakin has sworn in a civil suit that he saw no liability on his part for the disappearance of money from structured settlements of his clients.