The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the appointment of Philip J. Fowler as a Circuit Judge in the 4th Subcircuit of Cook County.
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Justice Joy V. Cunningham and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Deidre M. Dyer as an At-Large Cook County Circuit Judge.
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Justice Mary K. O’Brien and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Leah D. Setzen as a Circuit Judge in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, DuPage County.
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The Illinois Supreme Court announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders on March 21, 2023. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law.
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The aging of the baby boom generation has made Elder Law one of the fastest growing areas for state courts. As a result, in April of 2022 the Supreme Court announced its establishment of a multidisciplinary Elder Law Commission to study ways in which state courts can better serve the needs of those in advancing years.
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The names of 22 new associate judges, selected in a vote of Cook County Circuit Court judges, were announced on March 20, 2023, by Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts.
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WHO: Illinois Supreme Court Justices and other members of the Illinois Judicial Branch will speak to the leadership and new members of the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate.
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WHAT: The Illinois Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for James R. Rowe, etc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, etc., et al., the “SAFE-T Act” case.
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The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the creation of the Illinois Judicial Conference’s (IJC) Criminal Indigent Defense Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force will be studying how to best provide for the constitutional guarantee of criminal defense for indigent defendants as a follow up to the report issued by the Sixth Amendment Center on the right to counsel in Illinois.
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Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis of the Supreme Court of Illinois has begun an application process for three at-large judicial vacancies in the Cook County Judicial Circuit.