From needless discovery squabbles and poor preparation among the bar to high-handedness on the bench, judges tell what bugs them.
January 2006 • Volume 94 • Number 1
Practice News
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Articles
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A Q&A from Cook County about how mediation works in civil cases and how it can reduce time and money spent.
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Mediation of civil cases is also succeeding in the state's southern- most counties. find out why and how.
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For years, most Illinois courts have held that an employer can't stop departed employees from recruiting the employer's current workers. But that might be changing.
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Whether you're counsel or a board member, you can help your charity try to qualify for an exemption and put the dollars you save to charitable use.
Columns
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ISBA faces the challenge of implementing a bold new image advertising campaign and CLE on a grand scale.
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A well-intentional law armed at predatory lending puts title companies and lawyers at risk, the author argues
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The net is best used as a compliment to, not replacement for, traditional sources of legal information.
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By removing the cloud over surrogacy in Illinois, the Gestational Surrogracy Act promises to make the procedure more popular with would-be parents.