For What It's Worth

The Diversity Scholarship Foundation will participate in the 25th Annual Polar Plunge in support of the Special Olympics on March 2, 2025...

The Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra & Chorus will perform in concert on Saturday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., at St. James Cathe...

The Chicago Bar Association has announced the names of six indivduals who will receive the Earl Dickerson Award this year at a luncheon at ...

Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans has appointed Judge Andrea M. Buford as Acting Presiding Judge of the Child Protection Division. ...

October 17 is a long way off, but the Illinois Bar Foundation is already asking you to save the date for its 26th Annual Gala, honoring Mt...

Updated after publication to include extended entry deadline Members of the CBA, including law students (but excluding CBA board and off...

Remember how I told you that the bar associations were essentially skipping 2025 and plunging straight into 2026? First, the Alliance an...

A reader asked me to look into a rumor that legislation had passed in Springfield to move the 2026 primary "up" -- that it would b...

The Chicago Bar Association is actively recruiting new members for its Judicial Evaluation Committee. And the CBA is making a full-on, mu...

The Illinois Supreme Court, on the recommendation of Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis, has appointed Cook County Assistant State's Attorne...

Happy New Year! Gosh, 2025 was short, wasn't it? Alright, actually, the calendar still says 2025 and you haven't done a Rip Van...

So I will not pile on. If you aren't familiar with the case, Maya Dukmasova's article for Injustice Watch or Tim Hecke's art...

The Decalogue Society of Laywers will be presenting a CLE seminar next Tuesday, January 14, from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. entitled "Protect...

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...

Bonnie McGrath, who passed away unexpectedly just before Christmas (which would have been her 74th birthday), came to the law later in lif...

Supreme Court Justice Joy V. Cunningham has announced an application process for three Circuit Court vacancies, one countywide, and one each...

The Chicago Bar Association 's Barristers Big Band will perform at Andy's Jazz Club , 11 E. Hubbard Street, on Monday, December 30...

Drive your DeLorean over to the Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave., for the Chicago Bar Association 's 101st Annual Bar Show, Ba...

Justice P. Scott Neville and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Linda Sackey to the countywide vacancy created by...

Retired Appellate Court Justice Thomas J. O'Brien passed away this past Saturday at the age of 92. First elected to the Circuit Court...

Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis has announced that applications will be accepted for a temporary appointment to an 11th...

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joy V. Cunninghman has announced that applications for temporary appointments to three subcircuit vacancies w...

The Chicago Bar Association has issued a statement condemning threats made against Judge Thomas Nowinski. The statement, posted to X , sta...

A lot of current and former Cook County judges will remember Mike McGowan, if only from their new judge orientations. Mike concluded his ...

HB 5164 has passed the House and, having been reported out of the Senate Executive Committee on a party line vote, stands on the cusp of pa...

If you're looking for something to do tonight, and if the currently falling snow stays pre-shoveled as promised, the Southwest Bar Ass...

The Illinois State Bar Association is soliciting nominations for a host of awards -- not all of which, by their terms, are 'career ac...