Illinois

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, March 9, and here's a quick look back at yesterday's news... An Illinois judge…

Lawyers in Illinois hoping to cash in on a recent law allowing video poker machines to be installed in bars…

Baker & McKenzie reports its average profits per equity partner in fiscal 2008 fell 17%, to $992,000. Revenue was down…

The Chicago office of Philadelphia's Cozen O'Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will…

McDermott Will & Emery associates have been paid their 2008 bonuses, with fourth years getting up to $60,000. However, the…

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan told the state’s legislature that she sees no constitutional problem with the Illinois General Assembly…

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, a Chicago-based law firm with about 200 lawyers, cut nearly 10% of its attorneys. The firm…

Chicago's Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, a business-law firm with about 80 attorneys, will impose a 10% pay cut…

Above the Law is mocking an Illinois legal aid society for offering unemployed lawyers the chance to volunteer for pro…

The Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission, an agency of the Illinois Supreme Court, has booted 587 active attorneys from the…

Defense lawyers are claiming that Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich’s recent high profile interviews will probably hurt him when his…

Comparing himself to a cowboy facing a hanging, Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich condemned the state Senate for preparing to…