For What It's Worth

While a lot of FWIW readers (most of 'em, at this point in the election cycle) long ago realized their ambitions of becoming lawyers, so...

The legislative session ends Monday, Memorial Day notwithstanding. Much remains to be done. This is par for the course in Illinois, where ...

Tickets are now available for the Illinois Judges Foundation Golf Outing, to be held on Friday, July 30, 2021 at the Odyssey Golf Club , 19...

A campaign website has been launched in support of Judge Sanjay Tailor's bid to secure election to the countywide vacancy to which he w...

Another sign that the 'new normal' is coalescing around us: Yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court amended this March 17, 2020 Order...

CWB Chicago is reporting on Twitter within the past hour that First Municipal District Presiding Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr. has ordered ...

We'll start with the map, because that's what everyone will want to see, and my thanks to @FrankCalabrese for providing this to F...

I debated long and hard about whether to report on this. And, for reasons I shall explain, I am not here revealing the name of the Allianc...

With apologies to Rich Miller and the folks who made Schoolhouse Rock . SB1608 would increase the number of Cook County subcircuit judg...

Another day, another announcement.... Pam Saindon , a Principal Attorney with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, has announced p...

Family law practitioner Diana López has announced plans to run for the Cook County Circuit Court in the 2022 Democratic Primary. That'...

It will be a virtual event. One of these days we will get to promote live and in-person events again, and hopefully soon, but at present...

Photo credit: Jordan Johnson - USA TODAY Sports There's a lot of ground to cover this morning, but we have to start with baseball. Be...

The Illinois Bar Foundation is raising money to help lawyers in need---something it has done since it was founded in 1951---but the need ...

The Illinois Supreme Court today announced the Illinois Court Help site. And, yes, although the site appears to be aimed at the increas...

Let's start with the parade -- because this is time-sensitive. Following the June 23 virtual Annual Meeting, the Alliance of...

This is a post I revise and trot out at least once in every election cycle. This post is specifically addressed to persons thinking of runn...

Let's begin with a statement that will be obvious to most FWIW readers, but which is offered for the benefit of those who may be new her...

This year's annual Women Everywhere: Partners in Service fundraising reception will be held virtually on May 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p....

State Rep. Thaddeus Jones (D-29th) picked up another job title recently -- Mayor of Calumet City. The ABC7 story about Jones' swearin...

In a recent post , Frank Calabrese looked at how the Cook County judicial subcircuits had been drawn and offered some ideas about what a ne...

The Illinois Judicial Council is promoting a program to be put on by the Chicago Metropolitan Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 B...

Ron Blomberg hit only five home runs in just 61 games with the 1978 Chicago White Sox, but one of these came on Opening Day, when it was h...

Monday, May 3 is the start of Well-Being Week in Law . It is also World Press Freedom Day (this year's theme: Information as a Publi...

Yet another sign that perhaps, just perhaps---slowly, haltingly, but inexorably---things are starting to return to normal. This press relea...

We didn't put up decorations this year, but today is Law Day, U.S.A. The theme for Law Day 2021, according to the American Bar Associ...

In another sign that maybe, just maybe, things are starting to return to normal, the Illinois Supreme Court's Illinois Judicial Confer...

By Frank Calabrese Public Act 101-0477 , signed into law last year, requires the General Assembly to “redraw the boundaries of the (Cook C...