Locke Lord Llp
Recent News About Locke Lord Llp
-
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord Announces Billable Credit for Diversity and Inclusion Projects, Furthering Firm’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Effective Jan. 1, 2021, Locke Lord attorneys will receive credit for up to 75 hours of qualifying diversity and inclusion activities toward an attorney’s billable hours requirement — just the latest example of continuing to hone the Firm’s focus on its core value of diversity and inclusion. -
Clerk Yarbrough fights Shakman's effort to extend federal oversight to recorder's duties given her
Now that the Cook County Recorder of Deeds Office has merged with County Clerk Karen Yarbrough's office, a federal watchdog over the clerk's hiring practices wants court permission to also keep an eye on recorder activities, but Yarbrough is resisting. -
IL Inspector General's effort to block access to state hiring reports show IL not ready to lift feds oversight: Court filing
While Gov. JB Pritzker says the state is ready to emerge from federal court oversight of its hiring practices, a new court filing asserts efforts by the Office of the Executive Inspector General to impede court-appointed monitors from seeing certain state hiring reports says otherwise. -
Judge again OKs $15M fee award in 20-year-old case, potentially including more than $1M for other judge
A Cook County judge ruled it isn't the court's business that Cook County Judge Patrick Sherlock and Sherlock's ex-law partner could collect 7% of the fees under a deal with a law firm headed by Sherlock's father-in-law, for work Sherlock did on the case nearly 20 years ago. -
Pritzker keeps push to lift feds oversight of state hiring, says law only blocks forced political work
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is arguing federal oversight of state employment practices is limited to stopping political coercion of workers, but federal watchdogs say that reading of the law and related court orders is "crabbed" and a "sleight of hand" to skirt needed oversight. -
More time needed to test Pritzker's patronage solving claims: Court filing
Wait six months before ruling on Gov. JB Pritzker's request to end court oversight of state patronage hiring practices, say a group of Chicago lawyers behind the court decrees that opened windows on hiring practices in Chicago and Springfield government offices. -
Cook County judge asked to reconsider $15M fee award, including $1M to a fellow judge, in long-running investor suit
Current Cook County Judge Patrick Sherlock and his ex-law partner could be poised to receive more than $2 million for their work on a lawsuit that dates back to 2001, unless another Cook County judge agrees to revisit his decision to give a group of plaintiffs' lawyers, including Sherlock's father-in-law, nearly $15M in fees. -
Appeals panel ends Teamsters' bid to keep federal hiring monitor out of grievance hearings at Cook court clerk's office
A federal appeals court ruled the Teamsters Local 700 union employed the wrong legal strategy to stop a federal hiring monitor from observing grievance hearings at the Cook County Circuit Clerk's office. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord’s Wasim Bleibel and Nicholas O’Conner Selected for The Chicago Committee’s Inaugural Pathway to Partnership Program
Chicago Associate Wasim Bleibel and Senior Counsel Nicholas O’Conner have been selected as Fellows in The Chicago Committee’s inaugural Pathway to Partnership program. -
Springfield judge blocks Pritzker's COVID workers' comp rule changes; Employers say are illegal, could cost billions
A judge has granted a temporary restraining order to business groups who accused the Pritzker administration of illegally enacting new workers' comp rules to leave employers to "pick up the tab" for COVID illness -
Appeals court: Deutsche Bank doesn't have unlimited tries to dismiss, refile foreclosure actions
Appellate court rules mortgage lenders can't keep filing foreclosure actions after voluntarily dismissing them -
Judge asked to slice $24M fees for plaintiffs' lawyers, including 7% cut for other judge, in 18-year investor tiff
Plaintiffs' lawyers say they should get 30% of $80M award. Defendants say those lawyers' clients are actually only getting $1.9M -
Judge orders County Clerk Yarbrough to turn over documents to watchdog investigating alleged political hiring
A federal judge has ordered Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough to hand over more documents related to allegations she packed her office with politically-connected workers, but refused to sanction Yarbrough for what a political watchdog claimed is her effort to hide her alleged shenanigans. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord Chicago Partner Bilal Zaheer Elected to Board of Directors of The Chicago Committee
Bilal Zaheer, a Partner in Locke Lord’s Chicago office and member of the Firm’s Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Chicago Committee. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord’s Miki Goodin and Ernesto Palomo Recognized as Notable Minorities in Law by Crain’s Chicago Business
Miki Goodin and Ernesto Palomo, Partners in Locke Lord’s Chicago office, have been selected by Crain’s Chicago Business as 2019 Notable Minorities in Accounting, Consulting and Law honorees. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord Chicago Partner Bilal Zaheer Selected as Best Lawyers Under 40 Honoree by National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Bilal Zaheer, a Partner in Locke Lord’s Chicago office and member of the Firm’s Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group, has been named to the 2019 Best Lawyers Under 40 list by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord Strengthens IP Biotech and Pharma Capabilities With Addition of Complex Patent Litigator Steven Trybus as Chicago Partner
Steven Trybus, a veteran litigator who focuses on complex patent disputes, has joined Locke Lord’s Chicago office as a Partner in the Firm’s IP Pharmaceutical Practice Group. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord Partner Carolyn Blessing Named to Chicago Lawyer and Chicago Daily Law Bulletin “40 Under Forty” List
Carolyn Blessing, a Partner in Locke Lord’s Chicago office and member of the Firm’s IP Pharmaceutical Practice Group, has been named to the 2019 “40 Under Forty” list by Law Bulletin Media, publisher of Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: NABL U Workshop 2019
Karen Grande, Brenda McDonough, Jennifer Mendonça and Kara Adams are speaking at the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) 2019 Workshop, September 11-13 in Chicago. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Chicago Partner Ernesto Palomo Honored as Hispanic National Bar Association 2019 Latino Attorney of the Year
Chicago Partner Ernesto Palomo, a member of Locke Lord’s Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, has been recognized as Latino Attorney of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA).