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  ILLINOIS TRIAL LAWYERS: Women’s Caucus Summer Social

  By Press release submission | Monday, Aug 26, 2019 @ 12:00am

  Illinois Trial Lawyers will have a Women's Caucus on August 29, 2019 at Chicago Downtown Hotel.

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  Madison County lands on "Judicial Hellholes" list; Cook off list for 2nd consecutive year

  By The Cook County Record | Thursday, Dec 17, 2015 @ 2:38pm

  For the second consecutive year, Cook County was not listed on the American Tort Reform Association’s annual registry of the country’s worst “Judicial Hellholes.” However, downstate Madison County, thanks in large part to what the group calls an asbestos “rocket docket,” was again subjected to a torching this year, as ATRA released its annual report.

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  Survey says Cook, Madison counties, state of Illinois, rank among worst environments for lawsuits in country

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Sep 10, 2015 @ 4:46pm

  The courts of Cook and Madison counties, as well as the state of Illinois, have again ranked very poorly in the eyes of business leaders, a survey says, hampering the state’s economic growth, reducing the state’s tax haul, and making it more difficult to pay Illinois’ bills and provide needed public services, according to Ill. Gov. Bruce Rauner and representatives of the nation's largest business association.

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