If you're suing a company that's represented by counsel, when can you talk directly to its employees?

Post-September 11, it's more important than ever to respond appropriately to employee worries about safety in the workplace. But that doesn't mean acceding to unreasonable demands, a Chicago lawyer says.

Because of a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision, more state's attorneys will pass up the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act in favor of criminal prosecution, a downstate prosecutor opines.

A critic of the statute says it makes videotaping your child's baseball game a criminal act.

A new law is designed to encourage desperate mothers to leave their newborns in safe places, not dumpsters and doorsteps.

When do religious holiday displays on public property pass constitutional muster?

A Chicago attorney offers employment-law audits to her clients. Should you do the same?

The ISBA's three-front war against the unauthorized practice of law is proceeding.

The ISBA and CBA gear up to submit a joint mandatory CLE proposal to the supreme court.

A special ISBA committee is recommending that lawyers be required to maintain malpractice insurance or some other form of compensation for malpractice victims.

There's a right way and a wrong way under the U.S. Code to display the red, white and blue.

A new statute limits copy charges for patient records.

Members of an ISBA online discussion group warm to the subject of whether doctors charge too much for deposition fees.

Governor Ryan refuses to approve the Motorcyclist Public Accommodation Act unless the legislature passes a similar measure banning discrimination against gay men and women.

Since the Illinois Supreme Court's Lulay decision, appellate courts have struggled case by case to determine whether grandparents' bids for visitation are constitutional.