Central Illinois

• Woman gets 6 years for cutting brother-in-law during sex, Bloomington Pantagraph

Chicago area

• Barnes & Thornburg adds 5 BigLaw laterals in Chicago, ABA Journal
• Charges dropped in 20-year-old murder case, Chicago Sun-Times

Northern Illinois

• Quad-City Die Casting union files charges with NLRB, Quad-City Times
• Rockford design firm sued for piracy, fraud, Rockford Register Star

Southern Illinois

• Foreclosure rates double in Madison County, triple in St. Clair, Belleville News-Democrat

Nation

• U.S. News law firm rankings coming in 2010, ABA Journal
• ABA committee finds Sotomayor well-qualified in unanimous vote, ABA Journal
• Law prof sees "wake-up call" in report on how to guess Social Security numbers, ABA Journal