In his May Illinois Bar Journal article, “’Searching’ for an Answer,” Christian Ketter recounts a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concerning whether evidence discovered from pressing the remote key fob of a defendant’s car should be suppressed. Ketter assesses this case, as well as others, ruling that using a key fob to locate a vehicle is not a search, and is more like a binary “on-the-spot” field or dog-sniff test that only detects the presence or absence of a thing.
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May 20, 2024 | Practice News
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May 15, 2024 | Practice News
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission), and the Access to Justice Division of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC) have launched the application process for a grant initiative and are extending invitations to join their network of court personnel who assist self-represented litigants (SRLs) and advance access to justice.
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May 13, 2024 | Practice News
In Ira Helfgot’s May Illinois Bar Journal article, “Compelling the Unwilling,” Helfgot describes strategies for collecting from “unwilling debtors”—those who have the ability to pay a debt, but choose not to.
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May 6, 2024 | Practice News
Depending on the case, very little matches the power of video evidence. And, woe to anyone responsible for misplaced, destroyed, and inaccessible videos, for which discovery violations are possible. But what about video evidence that was never in the possession of law enforcement or the prosecution?
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May 6, 2024 | Practice News
The bar admission ceremonies for the new attorneys who passed the February 2024 Bar Exam will be held on Wednesday, May 8, in all five judicial districts of Illinois.
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May 6, 2024 | Practice News
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis, Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. and Justice Joy V. Cunningham will administer the attorney’s oath to 236 new lawyers over two bar admission ceremony sessions in Chicago on Wednesday, May 8, in the First Judicial District.
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May 2, 2024 | Practice News | People
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that Chief Counsel Mark C. Palmer has been selected to receive a 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Sociology.
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May 2, 2024 | Practice News
The Illinois Bar Journal’s May cover story, “Remote Opportunities,” concerns two recent publications that underscore how remote appearances—allowed since May 2020 under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 45—are increasing access to justice throughout Illinois as the practice continues beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 30, 2024 | Practice News
The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC), the administrative agency that regulates Illinois lawyers, has filed its year 2023 Annual Report with the Supreme Court of Illinois. The report will be released to the public on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, when a copy is posted on the ARDC website.
View the summary of the Annual Report entitled Highlights of the 2023 Annual Report.
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April 29, 2024 | Practice News
Justice Mary K. O'Brien of the Supreme Court of Illinois has announced the formation of a judicial screening committee for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit.
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