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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

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

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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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Bayer Corp. successfully appealed a class-action case over its Essure contraceptive device. The Illinois Supreme Court held Illinois courts lack personal jurisdiction where most of the plaintiffs don’t live in the state and didn’t have the contraceptive implanted in Illinois.

No jurisdiction for Essure class-action in Illinois

The Metropolitan Correctional Center in July 2019. A federal judge dismissed a detainee’s excessive force lawsuit against a prison official after finding the officer’s actions at the South Loop facility were an appropriate response to a knifepoint hostage situation.

Hostage taker’s excessive force suit tossed

Eugene I. Pavalon addresses guests at the 2012 Jury Verdict Reporter Trial Lawyer Excellence Awards, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in the plaintiff attorney category. Pavalon, an injury lawyer since the 1960s who lead statewide and national bar groups in efforts to protect medical patients and consumers, died May 26 at age 87.

Pavalon was leader in plaintiff’s bar

A photo from a federal criminal complaint filed Tuesday against Timothy O’Donnell shows a man in a clown mask setting a Chicago police vehicle on fire along the 200 block of North State Street during protests on Saturday. O’Donnell admitted to investigators after his arrest Tuesday that he was the person photographed. He faces federal arson charges.

Feds charge five in downtown Chicago riots

Protesters gather outside the Illinois Capitol in Springfield Monday to protest police brutality following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Pritzker: ‘Structural change’ will come from peaceful protests