For What It's Worth

The 2021 Annual Installation of the Advocates’ Society of Polish American Attorneys will be held virtually via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 18, be...

It was a staple of intelligence gathering during the Cold War Era: Look at the pictures of the officials standing atop Lenin's Tomb at...

Updated January 27, 2021 Updated February 2, 2021 to reflect a 14th vacancy (5th countywide) The latest information that I have is that th...

A judge who works at the Criminal Courthouse, another who works in the Domestic Violence Courthouse, and a third, assigned to the Daley Cent...

Updated June 4, 2021 It turns out that Gov. Pritzker vetoed the bill discussed in this post on March 25 -- the same day that the legislatu...

Updated June 4, 2021 It turns out that Gov. Pritzker vetoed the bill discussed in this post on March 25 -- the same day that the legislatu...

The Illinois Constitution gives the Illinois Supreme Court the power to fill Circuit Court and Appellate Court vacancies as they occur. Thr...

It's been a long morning watching Twitter -- mostly @capitolfax and @ShiaKapos on this issue -- but the Illinois House Democrats hav...

I've been retweeting updates on this from @CWBChicago on this one. This is the latest, and presumably the last: Update: “Second City ...

In a recent post , I reminded persons interested in applying for associate judge of the need to seek or update ratings from the Chicago Bar ...

The PRBA is far from the only local bar group to offer a response to last week's riot at the Capitol. Follow the links in this sentence...

The Asian American Judges Association of Illinois is hosting a panel discussion "regarding the Associate Judge process" in Cook C...

Next Monday will mark the 10th month anniversary of the Governor's stay-at-home order. Put another way, we are about to start our 11th ...

The Three Kings are on their way home now. It is now possible to go whole minutes without seeing an Amazon truck. If you put one up, you ...

Filling out the revised application on the Illinois Courts website is merely Step One. Step 1A involves reaching out the bar associations...

The headline-grabber is the appointment of Judge Erica L. Reddick to head the Criminal Division of the Cook County Circuit Court. Reddick s...

Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans announced yesterday that there are 10 associate judge vacancies to be filled. Applications are ava...

The Illinois Supreme Court today appointed Associate Judge Sanjay T. Tailor to the countywide vacancy recently created by the death of Judg...

I know what you're thinking: Merry Christmas? Now? Christmas Eve was a week ago. Once again Leyhane comes in late and lame. Which m...

by Albert J. Klumpp Two years ago Cook County experienced an election that was different from any other in its 54-year history of retentio...

Maybe it was done to generate interest -- and, not coincedentally, to divert attention from the seemingly certain Democratic nominee. Maybe...

I have tried---really, I have---to summon the enthusiasm exhibited by my fellow practitioners concerning the November 20 Supreme Court Order...

CBS2 aired a story last evening about a challenged raised by 12th Subcircuit candidate Frank R. DiFranco to the Judge Patricia M. Fallon...

The votes are all counted, finally, and, finally, we can say: The "Red Mirage" was real. No... wait... we can't say that. M...