Top Stories
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A man who sustained a head injury in a DuPage County motorcycle crash settled his suit for $2.15 million.
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Attorneys with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions secured the release of 28-year-old Marcel Brown, who was convicted of a 2008 murder and has spent the past decade behind bars.
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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have ended Illinois’ participation in a program experts say could purge 300 legitimate voters for every one fraud found.
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino’s former campaign committee won’t face additional fines after the Illinois State Board of Elections split 4-4 on motions to penalize the campaign over its spending and reporting.
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The family of a 10-year-old boy who sustained head injuries after an unidentified suspect drove an allegedly stolen cab portion of a semitrailer truck into his parents’ car has settled their lawsuit against the trucking company for $7 million.
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Trial Notebook
Justices Thomas M. Harris and John W. Turner disagreed on whether Wayne Patterson’s decision to voluntarily dismiss his fourth amended counterclaim for conversion against Dennis Brooks and R. Mack Brown provided jurisdictional justification for their appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court from an order that denied their motion for summary judgment on the tort claim.
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Lawyers' Forum
Attorneys and accountants are undergoing a seismic shift from being technical specialists to business problem-solvers. Professional services marketers share their perspective and advice to others facing this challenge.
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Lawyers' Forum
The most effective mediation submissions tell a concise, compelling story in clear, simple language. It’s easier to write a submission with a checklist of what to include because a submission is nuanced, and it’s not the same as writing a brief for trial.
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Workplace Issues
A recent ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the Southern District of Mississippi described a history and pattern of bad-faith disability benefit claim denials.
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Lawyers' Forum
A recent article in The New York Times highlights a growing problem — funding of litigation by investment companies that are not otherwise involved in, or parties to, the litigation.
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Federal Courts
Today’s case offers guidance in presenting evidence in a Social Security disability claim before an administrative law judge using the standard five-step test to evaluate conflicting medical testimony on the nature and extent of the claimant’s alleged disability.
Sporting Judgment
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NEW YORK — Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon may not need Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard to bring a championship to New York this year. — Free read
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Beyond the Playing Field
Eastern Michigan University, which has faced financial difficulties in recent years, is now the subject of two lawsuits in the aftermath of its recent decision to cut four varsity athletic teams, including women’s tennis, softball, men’s wrestling, and men’s swimming and diving.
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The Power of Lifting
In the last Power of Lifting on June 19, we discussed the four-days-per-week program I have been working on.
Non-Billable Hours
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Opening Statement
The last time I saw the actor Stacy Keach he was in New York on stage portraying an ex-cowboy movie star in “Other Desert Cities.” The next I heard was about his heart attack in spring 2017 that canceled his one-man show as Ernest Hemingway in “Pamplona” at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
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NEW YORK — The Mouse House is getting close to catching the Fox. — Free read
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Opening Statement
There is a very unique theatrical experience awaiting you at the Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park Road, one of Chicago’s newest theater venues, where its current production of “Southern Gothic” has again been extended by popular demand to Dec. 9.