Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the two civil and three criminal opinions handed down Thursday, March 23, by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Practice News
-
-
The Illinois Supreme Court announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders on March 21, 2023. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law.
-
The aging of the baby boom generation has made Elder Law one of the fastest growing areas for state courts. As a result, in April of 2022 the Supreme Court announced its establishment of a multidisciplinary Elder Law Commission to study ways in which state courts can better serve the needs of those in advancing years.
-
The names of 22 new associate judges, selected in a vote of Cook County Circuit Court judges, were announced on March 20, 2023, by Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts.
6 comments (Most recent March 26, 2023) -
WHO: Illinois Supreme Court Justices and other members of the Illinois Judicial Branch will speak to the leadership and new members of the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate.
-
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for: Student Worker and Technical Advisor II. Both positions are located in Springfield.
-
When the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA) was enacted in February 2020, it provided a timely lifeline for small businesses struggling to survive the economic realities of the pandemic, including the resulting supply chain disruptions and inflation, writes Devan de los Reyes in her March Illinois Bar Journal article, “Quick, Cheap, Consensual.”
-
WHAT: The Illinois Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for James R. Rowe, etc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, etc., et al., the “SAFE-T Act” case.
-
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the creation of the Illinois Judicial Conference’s (IJC) Criminal Indigent Defense Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force will be studying how to best provide for the constitutional guarantee of criminal defense for indigent defendants as a follow up to the report issued by the Sixth Amendment Center on the right to counsel in Illinois.
-
Are artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the recently released ChatGPT by Open AI going to replace lawyers anytime soon?