A recent column by Patrick Eckler (“How dispute over venue could open floodgates to litigation,” Oct. 24) paints plaintiffs as shameless forum shoppers who open “floodgates” to more litigation.

Where district court erred when it required plaintiff to plead facts connected to specific legal theories to survive motion to dismiss.

For the Defense — one might think that I would cheer two recent results in which justices of the Illinois Appellate Court ruled in favor of defense-aligned parties. But, as always, for everyone but ...

Where an officer received an injury in the line of duty but unreasonably refuses to undergo treatment, his refusal bars him from both a line-of-duty and a non-duty disability pension.The 3rd District ...

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died ...

Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.

Illinois will receive a $40 million share of a $1.4 billion bipartisan national settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain ...

Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

A former Cook County assistant state’s attorney is not entitled to absolute immunity in a lawsuit alleging he played a role in wrongfully convicting a man for murder.

The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he ...

Two brothers who allege a coroner kept their murdered sister’s skull rather than turning it over with the rest of her remains failed to adequately state a claim for a violation of their right to due ...

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration.