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Women before the Supreme Court: What it takes

Women before the Supreme Court: What it takes

When Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor Sarah O’Rourke Schrup appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court last October for oral argument, she cemented her place in court history.

By Jordyn Reiland

A century afloat for the Jones Act

A century afloat for the Jones Act

For the last century, a key federal law has kept workers on waterways protected from on-the-job injuries.

By Jordyn Reiland

Investigation, decrees among state’s legal fees in 2019

Investigation, decrees among state’s legal fees in 2019

Illinois paid out nearly $26 million in legal fees during the last fiscal year, according to state financial records, a figure that included nearly $600,000 for Schiff Hardin LLP’s investigation of sexual harassment claims at the statehouse.

By Andrew Maloney

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Voting rights are hardly history

This year’s Law Day theme is “Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100.” In the century since the women’s suffrage movement successfully fought for women’s right to vote, other reform movements have followed a similar playbook.

By Marc Karlinsky

Kristy M. Gonowon

Letter: Supporting Asian-Americans in the legal profession

One hundred years ago, our country fought over whether women had the right to be heard.

By Kristy M. Gonowon and Sang Yup Lee

Law Day ★ 2020

Voting rights are hardly history

This year’s Law Day theme is “Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100.” In the century since the women’s suffrage movement successfully fought for women’s right to vote, other reform movements have followed a similar playbook.
By Marc Karlinsky
A century afloat for the Jones Act

For the last century, a key federal law has kept workers on waterways protected from on-the-job injuries.
By Jordyn Reiland
Investigation, decrees among state’s legal fees in 2019

Illinois paid out nearly $26 million in legal fees during the last fiscal year, according to state financial records, a figure that included nearly $600,000 for Schiff Hardin LLP’s investigation of sexual harassment claims at the statehouse.
By Andrew Maloney
Stories behind the data

Chief Judge Diane P. Wood — only the second woman to sit on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — was the lone female professor at the University of Chicago Law School when she joined the faculty in 1981.
By Sarah Mansur
Women before the Supreme Court: What it takes

When Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor Sarah O’Rourke Schrup appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court last October for oral argument, she cemented her place in court history.
By Jordyn Reiland
Letter: Supporting Asian-Americans in the legal profession

One hundred years ago, our country fought over whether women had the right to be heard.
By Kristy M. Gonowon and Sang Yup Lee

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A Downers Grove police vehicle. A federal judge ruled the western suburb’s enforcement of its anti-panhandling ordinance violated the free-speech rights of two homeless men.

Downers Grove violated panhandlers’ rights

A Menards store in Ohio. The home-improvement retailer faces a personal-injury suit in Chicago federal court, where a judge ruled a deposition of the plaintiff can proceed remotely.

Menards can’t force in-person deposition

The Illinois Commerce Commission building in Springfield, located just down the street from the capitol.

State regulators grill ComEd execs over fraud admission

Businessman and third-party U.S. Senate candidate Willie Wilson faces a challenge to his candidacy, arguing a federal judge’s modified signature requirement and deadline extension still must survive appellate review.

Challengers say lax candidacy requirements shouldn’t stick

President Donald Trump speaks alongside Attorney General William Barr during a law enforcement briefing on the MS-13 gang in the Oval Office last month. Barr is scheduled to appear for the first time before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Barr puts stamp on exec power as AG