Gene Davis

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and the school's Center of National Security and Human Rights Law will host a seminar Sunday titled “Holocaust and the Law: Lessons for Today.”

Steptoe & Johnson LLP has appointed John L. Abramic to be the new managing partner at its Chicago office.

A bill introduced in the Illinois House would reshuffle the second-largest prosecutorial office in the United States.

A woman whose door was broken down by Chicago police officers intending to search the apartment below hers got the go-ahead to pursue her Fourth Amendment claims against the city and its officers.

Jurors deciding whether to find a man guilty of first-degree murder after he shot someone with a bow-and-arrow during an argument should have been given a jury instruction on self-defense, a state appellate panel held.

An appeals panel has reversed a $45.5 million verdict handed down after a 2010 oil spill in a far southwest suburb.

Two Chicago-area Jewish attorneys are suing the nation’s largest Jewish religious movement, alleging the organization’s call for reparations for slavery amounted to libel of all American Jews and, by imputation, the two of them.

Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. announced last week it is expanding its presence in Florida by combining with Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based McIntosh Sawran & Cartaya P.C.