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Legal services companies accuse former employees, Chicago lawyer of conspiring to steal clients for their own venture
A Chicago-based company specializing in arranging legal services for investors in and managers of foreclosed and other distressed properties is suing two of its former employees, claiming they spread lies and false information about it, improperly held themselves out to be lawyers and poached clients for a competing venture.Adminacase LLC and Cloud View LLC Payer, both of which are owned by Roopit -
Appeals panel reverses partial class certification in Chicago firefighters' suit over allegedly defective sirens
PucinskiA group of more than 500 Chicago firefighters claiming a company’s sirens were defective and caused hearing loss will not be allowed to move forward as a partial class after an appeals panel reversed a Cook County judge's decision to lump them together.In an unpublished order filed June 25, the First District Appellate Court reversed now-retired Cook County Circuit Judge William Haddad's partial -
Illinois Supreme Court says state can't cut retiree health benefits
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that the state cannot force retirees to pay a portion of their health insurance costs. -
Supreme Court set to rule on constitutional challenge over state retiree health insurance law
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday is expected to decide whether a law requiring state retirees to start paying premiums for their health insurance is constitutional.The anticipated ruling in Roger Kanerva et al., etc. v. Malcolm Weems, etc., et al. will not only resolve the constitutional question for thousands of retirees affected by the new law, but will likely provide court watchers and state -
Supreme Court increases Illinois attorney registration fee; $16, $40 hike takes effect next year
Starting next year, it will cost attorneys more money to practice law in Illinois. -
Seventh Circuit calls Pella class action settlement ‘scandalous;’ removes Paul Weiss as attorney
PosnerA federal appeals court has overturned the approval of a multi-million dollar class action settlement, describing it as “inequitable – even scandalous.”The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday overturned a settlement involving window-maker Pella Corporation that was estimated to be worth $90 million, though the court feels its value is much, much less.Class counsel was to receive -
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in seven cases
The Illinois Supreme Court late last month agreed to hear arguments in the following seven cases: -
Attorney Gill Garman, husband of chief justice, dies; colleagues remember him as "family man"
Gill GarmanIllinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Rita B. Garman’s husband has died.Gill M. Garman, a senior partner at Kesler Nelson Garman Brougher & Townsley P.C. in Danville, died Saturday at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, according to his obituary and a Monday news release form the court. He was 71.Not only was Gill known for helping Garman reach the center seat behind the state high court -
Fate of Chicago's red light camera program yields to Illinois Supreme Court for ruling
OTTAWA-- Despite being opponents, attorneys involved in the legal fight over Chicago’s red light camera program offered a similar line in their arguments today before the Illinois Supreme Court.Explaining to the justices why she believed one of the many arguments raised by the plaintiffs’ attorney failed, Kerrie Maloney Laytin, assistant corporation counsel for the city, said it was waived by not being -
Illinois Supreme Court disciplines 30 attorneys; including former and current public officials
The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday disciplined more than two dozen attorneys, including a trio of former public officials and one sitting alderman. -
Plaintiff attorneys seeking $7 billion from State Farm in RICO suit make case for Karmeier subpoena
CliffordIllinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier should have to submit to a subpoena in a $7 billion racketeering suit against State Farm because he associated with the alleged racketeers, according to Chicago lawyer Robert Clifford.“The amount in controversy is staggering,” Clifford wrote in a May 8 motion to compel Karmeier’s production of documents about his 2004 election to the state high -
Illinois Courts Commission removes Cook County judge from bench; says mental health issues interfere with duties and puts public at risk
A Cook County judge declared legally insane over a 2012 manic episode that resulted in her arrest for shoving a sheriff’s deputy has been stripped of her judicial duties. -
Karmeier files retention papers for November election
KarmeierIllinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier has filed candidacy papers with the Illinois Secretary of State’s office to seek another 10-year term in November.While judges seeking retention had until Sunday to file declarations of judicial candidacy, Karmeier submitted his paperwork on April 7, according to an employee at the Secretary of State Index Office.Once the Secretary of State's office -
ARDC: attorney disciplinary complaints dropped in 2013, but high court sanctions spiked
Although fewer investigations and attorney disciplinary complaints were lodged last year than in 2012, the Illinois Supreme Court handed down more sanctions in 2013, according to a report from the state’s disciplinary commission.
