On March 29, 2023, the Third District of the Illinois Appellate Court held that an attorney was not in indirect civil contempt for disclosing confidential settlement-agreement terms to a reporter because the disclosure could not be cured.
On November 20, 2014, the Illinois Supreme Court suspended an attorney for 90 days for dishonesty, neglect, and commingling funds in violation of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct.
Sites like Avvo that rate lawyers and encourage consumer reviews are evoking reaction positive and negative in the legal community – and posing interesting ethical challenges.
Compulsive gambling is like other pathological behavior that leads lawyers astray, with a big difference – it's not treated as a mitigating factor by the ARDC.
