SB 1697, now awaiting Gov. Ryan's signature, will make it easier for trustees of certain commonly used trusts to invest the principal so as to benefit both income and remainder beneficiaries.

Making a will, signing a deed, executing a POA for property; they all require different standards of competence. What are they, and what do they mean for you and your clients?

HB 5002 would add clergy to the list of required reporters under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.

The ADA does not require employers to hire employees for jobs that would pose a "direct threat" to the candidates health, the Supreme Court ruled.

The high court upholds the Probate Act provision that allows a claim against the estate by selected relatives who serve as custodial caretakers.

The seventh circuit holds that when federal prosecutors seek information from an agency attorney as part of a criminal investigation, the agency lawyer must talk.

Partnership will become an even more attractive form of business organization under the revised Act. But when will lawyers be able to form LLPs?

Prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys alike praise the legislation, which requires everyone convicted of a felony to provide DNA for a statewide database.

Want to learn the law governing destruction of evidence in Illinois? Start with this 1995 Illinois Supreme Court decision.

When the Illinois Supreme Court held that plaintiffs can be compensated for the risk of future injury, it departed from precedent and followed the trend.

A prosecutor and criminal defense attorney react to the recommendations of Governor Ryan's Commission on Capital Punishment.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court case holds that tax liens against one spouse attach to property held in tenancy by the entirety by both spouses, putting the IRS in a better position than other creditors.

The Illinois Supreme Court rules that the grandparents' visitation law unconstitutionally infringes upon parents' rights.

Bankruptcy court for Illinois' southern district now requires electronic filing.

Employer-employee arbitration agreements that require each party to pay its own attorney fees in civil rights and sexual harassment cases are unenforceable, the seventh circuit rules.

The Illinois Supreme Court has limited the power of governments to acquire property and transfer it to private owners.

You can now file articles of incorporation by fax, with more soon to come.

Every lawyer should know something about this far-reaching statute.

HB 5140 would reduce the bureaucratic complexity of child-support enforcement by putting it in state's attorneys' hands.

Litigators from both the plaintiffs' and defense bar like the amended rule's new three-class system for opinion witnesses: lay, independent expert, and controlled expert.

Public bodies violate the Open Meetings Act by acting on items that didn't appear on the agenda, the fourth district ruled recently in Rice v Board of Trustees.

Proposed requirements of debtors' lawyers in HR 333 could make petitioners' practice more trouble than it's worth.

Beginning last January 1, section 529 college savings plans allow contributions to grow tax-free.

Thanks to recent legislation, lawyers can create this under-appreciated form of ownership for their married clients without expressly stating in the deed that the parties are husband and wife.

"Redskins" is hate speech and not fit for use as a sports mascot, according to the Illinois Native American Bar Association.

According to a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling, most nonprofit hospitals are not immune from liability under the Tort Immunity Act, and plaintiffs have two years, not one, to bring malpractice suits against them.

A federal circuit court ruling gives nonunion workers the right to have a coworker present at an employer's investigatory interview.

Real estate lawyers applaud the demise of the Illinois Responsible Property Transfer Act, which they say produced useless paperwork and little else.

Experienced lawyer-mediators offer tips for getting the most out of this increasingly popular alternative to litigation.

Even though courts have broad discretion to ignore prenuptial agreements, couples can benefit from the process of creating them, a family practitioner says.