Road tests to renew driver’s licenses could be a thing of the past for many seniors in Illinois under a bill unanimously approved Wednesday by the Illinois House. 

A leading appellate attorney reviews the Illinois Supreme Court opinion handed down yesterday, which resolves a challenge to Illinois' 2021 legislative redistricting. 

In the escalating court battle between the Justice Department and major law firms over President Donald Trump's punitive executive orders, Chicago-based Jenner & Block is leading a counteroffensive on the front lines in a Washington federal court.

The bill would require law enforcement to have stricter hiring practices. When hiring a new police officer, the employers would receive all past records, investigations, arrests, crimes, physical and mental evaluations from past employers.

“There are no resources,” Corneal Westbrooks says, recalling his struggles with his younger brother Jawaun, now in prison for fatally stabbing a Chase bank employee in 2021.

Stanford Law School and Yale Law School tied for first place in rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report, the same spot that they occupied in last year’s list.

A Crystal Lake attorney had his law license suspended for committing a scam where he defrauded victims out of $139,000 while working as a prosecutor for the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Cook County’s top prosecutor says she does not believe the chief judge can safely administer electronic monitoring and she has instructed her lawyers to object every time it is imposed against their wishes.

The trial of a former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy accused of the murder of an unarmed Black woman in 2024 will be moved 85 miles north to Peoria County.