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Johnson & Bell added Claire K. Axelrood and Adnan Shafi as associates.Axelrood is in the firm’s health care practice group and concentrates on defending medical malpractice cases involving hospitals, universities, physicians, nurses, and other health care providers.Shafi concentrates his practice in municipal liability matters, representing municipalities and law enforcement officers.• Willkie Farr & Gallagher added John D. Mitchell as counsel to the firm’s Chicago office. He joins its litigation …

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Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who visited Chicago in 2010, reminds the umpires to be fair after delivering the first ball to the crew before a game between the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies at Wrigley Field. Legal leaders spoke of her influence after her death Friday.

O’Connor impressed, inspired Chicago judges, legal leaders

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger in the court's conference room in Washington, Sept. 25, 1981. Justice O'Connor's husband John holds two family Bibles. The White House via AP

Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on Supreme Court, dies at 93

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