A procedure for malpractice complaints against school administrators and school board members would have to be created if a state Senate bill passes.

After at least eight top prosecutors left their positions in the Northern District of Illinois, the I-Team has learned at least two more are leaving. "I think this is a historic level of turnover within this narrow span of time... We haven't seen the likes of this before," said ABC7 Chief Legal Analyst Gil Soffer.

The Illinois State Bar Association released the results of a recent Judicial Advisory Poll. The poll was available to licensed attorneys and judges to give their opinions on the candidates for a judicial vacancy in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Assistant Adams County State’s Attorney Tim Bass and Circuit Judge Christopher Pratt.

An Illinois judge has greenlit a class action lawsuit that accuses Apple of violating the state’s biometrics privacy law with its Siri personal assistant. According to the suit filed on January 29 in Cook County, the complaint says the way Siri works is by recording a user’s voice to learn and recognize it.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said an executive order requiring cops to document potential violations by federal agents could raise issues of political interference that could jeopardize criminal prosecutions.

An Illinois state senator is renewing a push to change state law to require the immediate expulsion of students found responsible for sexual assault, arguing current policies leave victims unprotected and force families to take extreme measures to keep their children safe.

The Illinois State Bar Association is in the process of converting to a new association management system (AMS). Our AMS is the membership database that serves as the backbone for most of our technology systems. As of Friday, February 6, 2026, all CLE programming and the ISBA bookstore are back online.