A pair of biglaw labor firms are moving their Chicago offices. Littler Mendelson P.C. is moving to a 36,000 square-foot facility at 321 N. Clark St., and Ogltree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart P.C. has leased 18,000 square feet in downtown’s newest office tower at 155 N. Wacker Drive. Both are expected to move this summer, according [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
Chicago defense attorney Allan Ackerman filed papers in federal court asking permission to withdraw from former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s defense team on Thursday. Ackerman said he is “No longer able to stridently participate in the defense of the accused.” In an interview with WLS-TV in Chicago Ackerman said that he had differences with others on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 28, 2009
Ulmer & Berne LLP announced today that the firm has been selected for the fourth year in a row by in-house counsel at Fortune 500 companies and the publishers of Corporate Counsel magazine as the 2010 “Go-To Law Firm” for Labor & Employment and Litigation. Ulmer & Berne, established in 1908, is a full-service Midwest regional [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden. The firm is recruiting corporate lawyers and commercial litigators. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan told the state’s legislature that she sees no constitutional problem with the Illinois General Assembly passing legislation to allow a special election for a U.S. Senator to replace the scandal-embroiled Senator Roland Burris. Burris’ appointment by former Governor Rod Blogojevich has been filled with controversy. Burris continues to say he did [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Jeff Colman, a partner at Jenner and Block in Chicago, will visit the University of Wisconsin at Madison to give a public talk regarding his experience representing detainees held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The talk, entitled “Guantanamo and The Rule of Law,” is hosted by the University’s Law School, the College [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Cary has ruled that lawyers for the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy case cannot charge hourly fees that exceed four figures. Lawyers from Sidley Austin LLP, who is representing Tribune in the case, wanted hourly rates that went as high as $1,100. That is the highest rate ever sought for a firm dealing in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
The attorney who represented the man accused of killing Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew, has withdrawn as the counsel for the accused. Joshua Kutnick, who own his own practice in Chicago, says he still believes that the accused, William Balfour, is innocent, but cannot support such a high-profile case on his own. “It’s the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
A prominent law firm paid $38.1 million to collect overdue Chicago parking tickets and other debt is still rolling in city business, one year after it was supposed to be fired for bankrolling an Arizona trip for a high-ranking Revenue Department official. Last February, the collection-services law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson was accused [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The prosecutor in Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pending impeachment trial in the state Senate said today he will call more than a dozen witnesses. Blagojevich, however, did not respond to a discovery deadline seeking witnesses, documents and other materials that would be used in his defense, the Chicago Tribune reported. The impeachment trial is scheduled to begin [...]
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