With the dawn of the NextGen bar exam approaching, some law schools are adjusting curricula to better prepare students for the test’s specific demands.

A jury convicted a man who was caught in Richmond driving under the influence for the fifth time and told arresting officers they were “parasites wreaking havoc on personal rights.”

Lawmakers are working on a plan in Springfield to improve the state's Name Image and Likeness (NIL) law for college athletes.

On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death.

The SAFE-T Act is again making headlines in Illinois with the pretrial release of an individual accused of being under the influence and crashing his vehicle into a sheriff’s deputy’s vehicle, killing her.

How does a person “corruptly” accept something? That was a question posed repeatedly by U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday morning as they heard arguments in an Indiana bribery case that could have far-reaching impacts on the upcoming prosecution of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other already tried high-profile local corruption cases.

Arguing people are “pleading guilty to offenses that they otherwise would not be pleading to,” Northwestern University Child and Family Justice Center attorney Stephanie Kollman is backing legislation designed in hopes of bringing greater equity to the criminal justice system.

An Illinois woman has taken legal action against Target, initiating a class action lawsuit accusing the retail giant of unlawfully collecting and storing her biometric data without her consent.

A plaintiff’s attorney suing Illinois over the state’s gun and magazine ban expects the case to go to trial on the merits in July.