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Cozen O’Connor attorneys and their translator pose for a photograph with their clients after winning their asylum case and their clients’ right to the stay in the U.S. At far left is attorney Corey T. Hickman, while attorney Julie L. Trester is in the center. – Photo provided by Cozen O’Connor

Cozen attorneys represent asylum seeker, buck Sessions' opinion

Julie L. Trester and Corey T. Hickman, attorneys at Cozen O’Connor, don’t specialize in immigration law. But the pair recently won an asylum case for their client — a 21-year-old Mexican woman and three of her four children.
By Sarah Mansur
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Lincoln now takes his place at high court

Nearly 160 years ago, Abraham Lincoln posed for a photo at what is now the Old State Capitol, one month after he won the Republican presidential nomination.
By Adrianna Pitrelli
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Injured shopper’s suit against Home Depot proceeds

An injured customer can move forward with his lawsuit against The Home Depot after contract workers allegedly pushed a heavy cart into him as he shopped.
By Andrew Maloney

Law Firm Leaders

Legal ethics expert retires after 33 years

Thomas P. Sukowicz spent about 10 years writing his first novel, titled “The Administrator.” The story line involves a murder plot to kill the administrator of an attorney discipline commission by right-wing religious fanatics who want to take over the state agency.
By Sarah Mansur

Law School Notes

Following national trend, bar pass rates dip here

Law school graduates are preparing to take the Illinois bar exam next month. Newly released scores from last July’s exam suggest there might be a few more re-takers than a year ago.
By Sarah Mansur

$1.25M settlement for police arrest, beating

A former Northwestern University engineering student who was beaten during a 2015 traffic stop and wrongfully arrested over a suspected stolen vehicle has settled his lawsuit against the city of Evanston and four of its police officers for $1.25 million.
By Jordyn Reiland

Panel affirms Brodsky sanction over 'egregious' behavior

A judge did not overstep her bounds when she sanctioned Chicago attorney Joel A. Brodsky for engaging in “egregious” behavior while representing a client in a civil case, a federal appeals court held.
By Patricia Manson

Pritzker pushes right to abortion in state policies

Nearly a half century after abortion was legalized in some form by the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order to make Illinois “the most progressive state for women’s reproductive rights.”
By Adrianna Pitrelli

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Trial Notebook

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Three errors cost plaintiff $1M investment recovery

The first of three lawsuits pursued by Peter Dvorak to recover his $1 million investment in a limited partnership started in federal court with one misstep (a mistake about the citizenship of the partnership, which meant the U.S. District Court in Chicago didn’t have diversity jurisdiction) and ended with another (an error in thinking an agreed order that dismissed the case without prejudice didn’t trigger the Illinois one-refiling rule).
By Steven P. Garmisa

Global IP

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2019 IP forecast: Brexit, China and internet accountability

This year promises to be a hot year for international IP issues. But in the early days, there are three holdovers with anticipated deadlines for action within the next 90 days that promise to roil international protection.
By Doris Estelle Long

Discourse on Divorce

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How state law changes affect your clients

As of Jan. 1, there are more than 250 new laws in Illinois. They cover everything from gun control to animal welfare to health care and education. Many of these laws can have a daily effect on people’s lives.
By Michael C. Craven

Sports Marketing Playbook

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Lawsuits over signature dances latest effort at athlete identity

A new twist in the ongoing debate over athletes’ right of publicity may be on the way. Lawsuits over the alleged theft of dance moves were filed in courts last month against the makers of popular video games, including the NBA 2K video game series.
By Douglas N. Masters and Seth A. Rose

Opening Statement

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Second City’s latest revue full of funny faces that’ll go places

As I recently sat in the darkened space of The Second City’s Mainstage theater, I couldn’t help but wonder: Is this a strange coincidence or what?
By Julian J. Frazin

Non-Billable Hours

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‘On the Basis of Sex’ shows how a star is born

If Gloria Steinem is the Martin Luther King Jr. of the women’s movement, then Ruth Bader Ginsburg is its Thurgood Marshall.
By Rebecca L. Ford

The Laws of Fitness

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How to stay physically fit during winter months

Avoiding the winter blues by partaking in some fun winter activities here in the Chicago area.
By Claudia Farfan Badillo
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Jury selection primer presented at CBA

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, and Charles R. Haskins, associate at the firm, spoke Friday at The Chicago Bar Association on “10 Things You Need to Know Before Picking a Jury.” The lunchtime program, sponsored by the CBA Torts Litigation Committee, offered Continuing Legal Education credit. It is available for viewing via the web by visiting chicagobar.org and select Committees-Upcoming Meetings. Photo provided by Clifford Law Offices
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NSBA Holiday party

The North Suburban Bar Association held its annual holiday party Dec. 6 at Maggiano’s Little Italy at Westfield Old Orchard Mall in Skokie. Pictured (left to right) are David P. Pasulka, principal at David P. Pasulka & Associates P.C. and past NSBA president; current NSBA President John F. Stimson, a Skokie sole practitioner; Richard L. Pullano, partner at Pullano Law Offices and past NSBA president; and Cook County Associate Judge Patrick J. Heneghan, NSBA’s president-elect.
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‘Letters to Santa’

Clark Hill PLC participated in Dear Santa Letters, an initiative of The Chicago Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section in coordination with Direct Effect Charities. The program collects wish-list letters from disadvantaged Chicago students, then special gifts are bought, wrapped and delivered to those students’ schools. Pictured with 100 donated presents are (left to right) Clark Hill receptionist Marykay Polito, member Ray J. Koenig III, legal assistant Tammy Braun and associate Chris Hopkins. Photo provided by Clark Hill PLC
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ITLA med-mal seminar

Clifford Law Offices partner Bradley M. Cosgrove presents on demonstrative exhibits during a medical-malpractice seminar on Dec. 10 hosted by the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association at the JW Marriott Chicago. In addition to Cosgrove’s discussion, the event included presentations from nine other plaintiff’s lawyers and a Cook County judge on topics related to med-mal practice.

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Cozen O’Connor attorneys and their translator pose for a photograph with their clients after winning their asylum case and their clients’ right to the stay in the U.S. At far left is attorney Corey T. Hickman, while attorney Julie L. Trester is in the center.
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Cozen attorneys represent asylum seeker, buck Sessions' opinion
A photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken after he won the Republican nomination for president in 1860 is displayed at the Illinois Supreme Court. The ceremony is part of a campaign to have the same photograph in every courthouse in Illinois. Pictured from left to right are 1st District Appellate Justice Michael B. Hyman; Supreme Court Justices Thomas L. Kilbride and Rita B. Garman; Supreme Court Chief Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier; Supreme Court Justices Robert R. Thomas, Anne M. Burke and P. Scott Neville Jr.; Illinois State Bar Association President and DuPage County Associate Judge James F. McCluskey and Illinois Judges Association President and Cook County Associate Judge James E. Snyder.
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Lincoln now takes his place at high court
A man’s lawsuit against Home Depot can proceed after he alleges merchandising contractors at the Schaumburg warehouse store negligently ran into him with a cart loaded with molding supplies as he bent down to shop.
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Injured shopper’s suit against Home Depot proceeds
The outfield of Steel Yard in Gary, Ind., home to the Gary SouthShore RailCats minor league ballclub, in a June 2006 file photo. The RailCats were one of four franchises that left the independent Northern League in 2010. That departure led to the league suing its law firm for legal malpractice. A Cook County jury found in favor of that law firm, a result the 1st District appellate court upheld last month.
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No legal malpractice in baseball league's breakup
The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C. Consumer advocates and the data-hungry technology industry are drawing early battle lines in advance of an expected fight over a national privacy law. Privacy organizations today suggested sidelining the Federal Trade Commission with a new data-protection agency empowered to police U.S. industry.
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Alliance of groups call for new federal data protection agency
Illinois Attorney General-elect Kwame Y. Raoul walks to the front of the stage at the Bank of Springfield Center Monday, following U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman. Moments later, Coleman delivered the oath to the Hyde Park Democrat, swearing him in as the state’s 42nd attorney general.
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Raoul, first new AG in 16 years, gets started