Despite glitches in other courthouses, the first week of bail reform in Cook County went relatively smoothly. But hearings were slower than usual, marked by extensive arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys as they tested guidelines under the Pretrial Fairness Act.

A former judge in Cook County, Ill., has been stripped of her law license after claims she stole money from her uncle to buy cryptocurrency.

In 1946, the Illinois Supreme Court heard a case that would eventually become a landmark in American legal history.

Shayla Maatuka was 5 years old when her uncle was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

The Illinois Supreme Court announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders on September 21, 2023. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law.

Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the two civil opinions handed down yesterday by the Illinois Supreme Court. 

Champaign County community members are calling on the sheriff’s office to make phone calls for inmates free.

An attorney representing relatives of a woman shot dead following a police pursuit and crash in Oklahoma related to a quadruple murder in a Chicago suburb said Thursday that her family believes the woman was kidnapped and had nothing to do with the gruesome crime.