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  • Racial Justice
    Lessons learned from and about Bronx native Justice Sotomayor
    On Lincoln’s birthday, members of the Illinois Latinx Judges’ Association attended elementary classrooms across Chicago to read to kindergarteners through fourth-graders. I had the privilege to read to a fourth-grade class at Torres Elementary School in the Archer Heights community on the South Side. We talked about Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
  • Trial Practice
    From swearing in to seating, goal is fair and impartial jury
    The goal of jury selection is to empanel a fair and impartial jury. To do so, parties exercise challenges for cause and peremptory challenges.
  • Employment Law
    NDAs in employment disputes need attention early in process
    Good work, you are trying to resolve an employment dispute short of trial or hearing. At some point during your discussions, however, one or both sides will add — often at the last minute — something akin to “And of course we will include a non-disclosure agreement and confidentiality.” What? Whoa. Hold up there.
  • For the Defense
    E-filing error sinks plaintiff’s cause of action, court finds
    The Illinois Appellate Court has issued another case illustrating the enormity that is Supreme Court Rule 9(d)(2) and the power that has been vested by the Illinois Supreme Court with the clerks of the circuit courts to reject documents lawyers submit.
  • Professionalism on Point
    AI is transforming client journey from marketing to resolution
    While much ado about artificial intelligence (AI) in legal seems to center around legal research, the aperture should be opened to reveal how AI is reshaping the ways firms interact with clients across every stage of the client journey.
  • Cotter’s Corner
    ‘Shadow docket’ continues to grow at Supreme Court
    Emergency applications to the Supreme Court, often referred to as the “shadow docket,” are requests for immediate judicial intervention, typically without full briefing or oral argument and often without full development of the lower courts record.
  • Opening Statement
    Theater takes new tack in ‘Elvis Presley was a Black Man Named Joe’
    “Elvis Presley was a Black Man Named Joe” marks a departure from the tried-and-true formula that has been so popular at Black Ensemble Theater since its founding in 1976.
  • Insurance Matters
    Endorsement had no effect on claims-made notice requirement
    In a January decision, the 1st District Appellate Court held that an endorsement to a claims-made policy requiring notice to the insurer upon partial exhaustion of the insured’s self-insured retention, did not alter the policy’s requirements regarding notice to the insurer of a claim.
  • Racial Justice
    Lessons learned from and about Bronx native Justice Sotomayor
    On Lincoln’s birthday, members of the Illinois Latinx Judges’ Association attended elementary classrooms across Chicago to read to kindergarteners through fourth-graders. I had the privilege to read to a fourth-grade class at Torres Elementary School in the Archer Heights community on the South Side. We talked about Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
  • Trial Practice
    From swearing in to seating, goal is fair and impartial jury
    The goal of jury selection is to empanel a fair and impartial jury. To do so, parties exercise challenges for cause and peremptory challenges.
  • Employment Law
    NDAs in employment disputes need attention early in process
    Good work, you are trying to resolve an employment dispute short of trial or hearing. At some point during your discussions, however, one or both sides will add — often at the last minute — something akin to “And of course we will include a non-disclosure agreement and confidentiality.” What? Whoa. Hold up there.
  • For the Defense
    E-filing error sinks plaintiff’s cause of action, court finds
    The Illinois Appellate Court has issued another case illustrating the enormity that is Supreme Court Rule 9(d)(2) and the power that has been vested by the Illinois Supreme Court with the clerks of the circuit courts to reject documents lawyers submit.
  • Professionalism on Point
    AI is transforming client journey from marketing to resolution
    While much ado about artificial intelligence (AI) in legal seems to center around legal research, the aperture should be opened to reveal how AI is reshaping the ways firms interact with clients across every stage of the client journey.
  • Cotter’s Corner
    ‘Shadow docket’ continues to grow at Supreme Court
    Emergency applications to the Supreme Court, often referred to as the “shadow docket,” are requests for immediate judicial intervention, typically without full briefing or oral argument and often without full development of the lower courts record.

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