Daily Legal News Archive

Thursday, May 8, 2025

University president Robert Manuel faced three hours of heated questions, while a civil rights lawyer compared a Washington hearing Wednesday to a long-discredited anti-communism campaign from the Cold War era.

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Chicago Sun-Times

A former Chicago elementary school principal who was charged in a 2021 wire fraud case was found dead after she failed to appear for her sentencing hearing, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed.

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NBC 5 Chicago

The global trade war boosted nearly every major practice area for law firms in the first quarter of 2025, but the months ahead “may be rocky indeed,” according to a summary by the Thomson Reuters Institute of its latest Law Firm Financial Index.

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ABA Journal

Lawyers representing neighbors complaining about odors from a Mount Prospect animal feed producer in a class-action lawsuit met Tuesday at a Des Plaines church with clients and interested parties.

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Daily Herald

A federal judge in New York issued a preliminary order Tuesday blocking the Trump administration from cutting off states’ access to hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic relief funds for public schools, including more than $77 million for Illinois.

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NPR Illinois