A Cook County jury awarded $56 million Friday to the family of a Chicago woman who died following a plastic surgery procedure.

In the waning days of the Biden administration, judges continue to be front and center, with President Joe Biden likely to exceed then-President Donald Trump’s total Article III judge appointments of ...

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of ...

Before jurors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial departed the Dirksen Federal Courthouse for a two-week break on Thursday, they heard glowing testimony from the ex-speaker’s ...

Where claimant’s counsel failed to object to vocational expert’s failure to cite sources for number of jobs available in national economy, claimant forfeited that argument.

Where a medical corporation is sued, the suit is subject to the four-year statute of repose from the Medical Corporations Act if the physician was duly licensed at the time of the incident.

The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission is planning to start the new year with a fresh approach to lawyer misconduct and a focus on enhancing its reputation.

Changes that would make Illinois pension systems compliant with Social Security by improving benefits for government ...

Though he wouldn’t get a formal diagnosis of dementia until a few years — and one felony plea — later, former state Rep.

A judge did not overstep his bounds when he awarded the plaintiff in a trademark-infringement lawsuit $900,000 in punitive damages in addition to nearly $550,000 in compensatory damages and disgorged ...

A federal judge on Thursday declined to acquit former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza after his September trial on ...

The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission appointed retired judge Robert C. Marsaglia to commissioner and attorney Juan R. Thomas as a review board member, effective Jan. 1, the ...