On May 17, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed into law Public Act 102-005, which immediately provided for automatic and mandatory sealing of residential eviction cases filed beginning with the State’s COVID-19 emergency declaration (March 9, 2020) through March 31, 2022, and residential eviction case files that were pending and not sealed as of May 17, 2021. 735 ILCS 5/9-122(a)(b).  

However, unsealing motions can be submitted if the residential eviction case was not in part or wholly related to non-payment of rent during the COVID-19 emergency and economic recovery period (March 9, 2020 – March 31, 2022), and (1) the interests of justice in sealing the court file does not outweigh the public interest in maintaining a public record; (2) the parties to the eviction action do not agree to seal the court file; (3) there was material violation of the terms of the tenancy by the tenant; or (4) the case was not dismissed. 735 ILCS 5/9-122. 

The Illinois Supreme Court announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders on March 25, 2022. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law.

Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the four Illinois Supreme Court opinions handed down Thursday, March 24. 

The Illinois Supreme Court announced today a new order which for the first time establishes Time Standards for Case Closure in the Illinois Trial Courts (Time Standards), effective July 1, 2022, for cases filed on or after January 1, 2022. 

As of January 1, 2022, Fannie Mae has new underwriting requirements for lenders and appraisers relating to condos and co-ops containing more than four units.

The Illinois Supreme Court today announced the appointment of Erika Harold as the new Executive Director of the Commission on Professionalism effective April 11, 2022. Ms. Harold succeeds the retiring Jayne Reardon, who has served as Executive Director since 2009. 

Get the information you need to effectively advise your clients on the importance of establishing a power of attorney with this informative presentation.

Some scholars have predicted that the fall of the American experiment is inevitable and will expire like countless empires before it. However, using they mythical metaphor of Theseus’s ship may offer attorneys some hope, writes Christian Ketter in his March Illinois Bar Journal article, “A Constitutional Ship of Theseus.” 

Chicago-Kent College of Law has officially renamed the Institute for Law and the Workplace (ILW) after founder and professor emeritus Martin H. Malin.