For What It's Worth

12th Subcircuit Republican candidate Laura Morask has announced a September 11 fundraiser at Cavanaugh's, 53 West Jackson, from 6:00 to ...

John Flynn Rooney reports in the August 21, 2008 the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin that the Circuit Court has declared a winner in the close 5...

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Richard B. Berland will retire July 11. The Supreme Court has already announced that William H. Hooks will r...

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported in its July 3 issue that Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Allen F. Murphy has been appoin...

1. Thomas Anthony Durkin ● 2. Don H. Reuben ● 3. Robert F. Coleman ● 4. R. Eugene Pincham ● 5. Sam Adam ● 6. Robert W. Tatum ● 7. Charles B....

Debra Cassens Weiss reported yesterday on the ABA Journal website, Law News Now, that there are a million lawyers in the U.S. -- but -- who...

In Illinois, jurors may be permitted to take notes at trial as authorized by 705 ILCS 315/1(b). Jurors in Australia can take notes, too. Co...

Chicago solo practitioner James N. O'Hara ran unopposed for the Henry vacancy in the 14th Judicial Subcircuit in the February primary. ...

I've written twice now about the City of Chicago recycling facility which takes, among other things, consumer electronics for ecycling. ...

I suppose this will have to replace the incandescent bulb as the symbol for a good idea, right? Last month I mentioned that I'd found, ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the most famous lawyers in history, was proscribed and murdered in the turmoil of the dying years of the Roman...

One hundred seventeen Best Buy stores in eight states are to begin "a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure...

Over the weekend, NASA's Phoenix lander successfully touched down on the arctic plains of Mars. At left is an artist's depiction o...

Scenes from today's Norwood Park Memorial Day Parade. There's probably a story behind how the Rosemont Police came to provide the ho...

Karen M. Wilson has been selected as an Associate Judge for the 18th Judicial Circuit (DuPage County), the Administrative Office of the Illi...

But only because the votes in Michigan and Florida weren't counted.

Many Chicagoans know that Lincoln Park was once a cemetery. Most, probably, don't know that it still is. Pamela Bannos, a senior lectur...

In cooperation with the District of Columbia and 49 states, including Illinois , Facebook says it will work "to protect Facebook’s unde...

Bank of America finished its digestion of LaSalle Bank this week. The Dutch company ( ABN AMRO ) that bought out LaSalle Bank in the early ...

A Chicago attorney is seeking to vacate a discovery sanction of more than $29,000 by U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of Philadelphia...

Martha Neil reports in a May 6 article on ABAJournal.com about Deborah Griffin, a Philadelphia municipal judge , who has been removed from o...

This is a reprint, with the author's permission, of an article by Lee Goodman that I saw in Monday evening's Law Bulletin . Goodman...

Speaking of "frivolous" lawsuits, you may remember Judge Roy Pearson, the Washington, D.C. administrative law judge who filed suit...

We bought the blue bags at Casa Leyhane; we used them. We put them out faithfully each week and watched the massive gears smash and grind o...

That's one question. But you might ask first -- why is former Cub shortstop Shawon Dunston prominently featured here on the blog of an ...

Third in a series inspired by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's charges that "Illinois has one of the five worst legal climates in the...

I would like to expand upon yesterday's post about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's claims that Cook County has "the second wors...

Rich Miller reports today on claims by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that "Illinois has one of the five worst legal climates in the nat...

A New York State appellate court has put on hold , at least for now, the scheduled April 28 criminal trial of 10 Filipino nurses and their l...

Students at Oxford University are among the smartest anywhere in the world -- but even students at one of the world's most elite college...

Kashmir Hill reports yesterday on Above the Law about a craigslist ad posted "for a student lawyer who is familar (sic) with the divo...

An article by Debra Cassens Weiss, posted this morning on ABA Journal.com , addresses one of the more frightening issues facing the legal pr...

The Chicago Tribune reports that " a southbound CTA Blue Line train was evacuated " this morning after failing near the Clark and...