After nearly 25 years practicing law, Margo Wolf O’Donnell still sometimes feels like one of only a few women in the courtroom.“It is disappointing to me that that’s still happening,” O’Donnell, a ...

The Illinois Supreme Court issued 27 pages of case dispositions last week, its largest number by page count in quite some time with three (really two because the appeals were consolidated) petitions ...

After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial rested their case Wednesday, followed immediately by ...

Illinois prison officials did not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution when they suspended a corrections sergeant for 10 days for posting messages on Facebook containing derogatory remarks about Islam ...

A sports psychologist who maintains a former Chicago Cubs employee retweeted a passage from his book without attribution got the go-ahead Tuesday to pursue half the counts in his ...

Where a plaintiff seeks primarily injunctive relief against a state actor, sovereign immunity does not bar them from seeking fees and costs ancillary to this relief.The 1st District Appellate Court ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker used his emergency powers Monday to waive a portion of the Illinois Open Meetings Act to allow local governments and other public bodies to hold “remote” meetings to ...

With less than three weeks remaining before voting ends in the 2024 election, polls have been showing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump running virtually neck-and-neck, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Smelling and seeing cannabis justified probable cause for a police officer in central Illinois to search a man’s car, despite cannabis’ decriminalization and legalization for medical ...

Where plaintiff asserts legal malpractice, they must show that but for the legal advice given they would have pursued a different course of action.The 1st District Appellate Court affirmed the ...

Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 ...

Anyone aware of acts of protest, feats of conscience, and other deeds of courage will recall the raising of clenched fists at the 1968 Olympic Games.