For nearly eight years, former Chicago Ald. Frank Olivo had a monthly ritual.

Where a party is denied judgment notwithstanding the verdict, this denial will only be overturned where the evidence is so overwhelming that no contrary verdict based on it could stand.

Paul La Schiazza, the ex-boss of AT&T Illinois accused of bribing a powerful politician, could be a free man next month.

The Illinois Gaming Board appropriately exercised its discretion in its decision to allow one gaming operator to place and operate video gaming terminals at certain locations over another due to ...

A business owner cannot pursue a lawsuit alleging that a retired arson investigator fabricated evidence that led to his arrest for a fire set at his bar, a federal judge ruled.

An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour of debate Wednesday.

Before the sun rose on a cold Wednesday morning in January 2019, Fidel Marquez agreed to a life-altering assignment as a cooperating witness in a criminal case the government was building against his ...

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

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.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one prosecutor after another for perceived bias against the president-elect and emphatically ...

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.