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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

Stories behind the data

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

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

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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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The Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. The Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the tech giant has been abusing its online dominance in online search to stifle competition and harm consumers. The litigation marks the government’s most significant act to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. The suit could be an opening salvo ahead of other major government antitrust actions, given ongoing investigations of major tech companies including Apple, Amazon and Facebook at both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.

DOJ plans antitrust case against Google

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announces the extension of a statewide moratorium on residential evictions during a news conference Friday in Elgin.

Pritzker extends eviction moratorium an additional 30 days

The entrance to 21 Kristin Drive in Schaumburg. The condo association may proceed with a lawsuit against an engineering firm that conducted an property assessment in 2006, a state appeals panel ruled.

Engineering firm must face suit over condo property report

Michael J. Deno, a Cook County prosecutor for nearly three decades, is the new executive director of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board. He replaces Kathy D. Twine, who retired last month.

Deno named Judicial Inquiry Board exec

Moody Bible’s Institute’s central plaza at its campus on the Near North Side. A federal judge rejected arguments that the court would be passing judgment on the school’s religious doctrines if a former employee got to pursue disparate treatment and retaliation claims.

Moody Bible Institute not shielded from sex-discrimination suit