Part Five of a five-part series.

Part Four of a five-part series.

Part Three of our five-part series, which focuses on tips and pointers for direct examination.

Part Two of a five-part series. The essential elements of persuasion: What to do and how and why to do it.

Part One of a five-part series.

A former member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Illinois Evidence reviews its 2013 proposals for rules of evidence not adopted by the Supreme Court.

The Federal and Illinois Rules of Evidence diverge in dozens of ways worth noting.

Illinois Rule of Evidence 502 and the Center Partners decision mean fewer business discussions fall outside attorney-client privilege.

A retired appellate justice offers his view of what can be done to assure full and fair vetting of cases in a post-oral-argument world.

Judicial elections? Merit selection? While the decades-old debate continues, a former judge proposes a constitutional amendment that represents a third way.