How Time Flies

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Marybeth Stanziola

 After several years of starts and stops (and a pandemic), the Illinois Supreme Court adopted amendments allowing lawyers to pay for lead generation, writes the ISBA’s General Counsel Charles J. Northrup in his July Illinois Bar Journal ethics column, titled, “How Time Flies.”  According to Northrup, the amendments provide much-needed clarity for lawyers and transparency for consumers.

Illinois Supreme Court Appoints Hon. James Hackett to Fifth District Appellate Court

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Marybeth Stanziola

Justice David K. Overstreet and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the recall and appointment of the Honorable James Hackett to the Fifth District Appellate Court.

Judge Hackett is being recalled and appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Thomas Welch on July 7, 2025. The appointment is effective August 8, 2025, and will conclude on December 7, 2026.

Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they'd encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store last week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online.

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ABC 7 Chicago

A landlord sentenced to decades in prison after he killed a Palestinian American boy and wounded his mother has died.

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NPR

A bill filed in Illinois' House of Representatives would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks or neck gaiters, with the exception of medical-grade masks.

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State Journal-Register

Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced last week that the Seventh Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Sierra Senor-Moore as associate judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

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The Bar News

A judge in Illinois dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit Friday that sought to disrupt limits Chicago imposes on cooperation between federal immigration agents and local police. The lawsuit, filed in February, alleged that so-called sanctuary laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.

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Capitol City Now

Under the ordinance, all boaters on the lake and waterways in Chicago would be required to wear a personal flotation device, or operators could face a fine.

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NBC 5 Chicago

Longtime Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain, who spent years as a close friend and advisor to ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for his role in a bribery scheme targeted at the former speaker.

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Capitol News Illinois

A video posted Thursday shows two people in plainclothes, who advocates say appear to be immigration agents, surround a man and hold onto his arm without identifying themselves.

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Chicago Sun-Times