For What It's Worth

The Chicago Bar Association will offer a three-day symposium, "AI 2035: The Legal Profession and the Judiciary in the Age of Artifici...

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Our rollercoaster spring continues in Chicago... 80° today... but, after today, maybe no more than 60° until the end of the week. Nevert...

Updated to add appearance by Sen. Dick Durbin... This is a low-cost ($25 to attend in-person, free online), five-hour CLE presentation ...

Details are on the event poster, reproduced above. There are sign-in links on the Southwest Suburban Bar Association homepage and on thi...

The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts has counted the votes cast by the eligible Cook County Circuit Court judges and certified t...

The above poster is for the Saturday, May 9 concert by the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and the CBA Chorus at St. James Cath...

The Saturday murder of a Chicago Police officer, and the grave wounding of his partner, at Swedish Covenant Hospital, is being covered every...

The Decalogue Society of Lawyers will present a free CLE program entitled "It's Never Too Late For A Pretrial Settlement Confere...

Former Appellate Court Justice Gino DiVito will be waked next Thursday evening, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at Donnellan Family Funeral Se...

FWIW is once again pleased to present a Guest Post by Albert J. Klumpp, a PhD in public policy analysis with a national reputation for exper...

FWIW is once again pleased to present a Guest Post by Albert J. Klumpp, a PhD in public policy analysis with a national reputation for exper...

The Decalogue Society of Lawyers is offering a lunchtime Zoom CLE on Thursday, April 30, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., at which a panel of jud...

The Advocates Society will offer dinner and an hour and a half CLE program at their upcoming general meeting, Tuesday, May 5, starting at...

This notice was in several of my inboxes in the last few days, and I certainly hope that this effort by Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana T. ...

A reader advised FWIW that former Cook County Associate Judge Michael C. Brown passed away on April 9. Judge Brown was assigned to both th...

The Chicago Bar Association will host the 2026 Vanguard Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, April 21, at the Union League Club of Chicago , 65 W. J...

The Chicago Board of Elections today announced the final results of balloting in the March 17 primary. As FWIW readers will recall all too...

Not a battle royale, but certainly a royal battle: The music of (as Stevie Wonder put it) the King of All, Sir Duke versus the music of th...

The new date for the Illinois Latino Judges Association Spring Fling Social is April 30. This is the revised flyer for the event: Still...

In Part 2 of this two-part series, FWIW continues its look at each individual associate judge finalist. For Part 1 of this series, click he...

Updated 4/2/26 This is Part 1 of a two-part look at the 14 associate judge finalists. For Part 2 of this series, click here . Candidates ...

Friday's post about the announcement of the 14-person associate judge Short List cribbed rather extensively from the OCJ's press re...

It's just about time to wrap up this Election Fortnight, seeing as how the polls closed two weeks ago. Official results will be pos...

The Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II and the court’s Nominating Committee today announced the names of 14 candid...