Jan Crawford Greenburg

It has become an important corporate tool as more and more companies cut back in an era of downsizing. To induce employees to leave, employers are offering buyouts or early...

When W.R. Grace & Co. last year forced out its chief executive for alleged sexual harassment, more than a few observers hailed the company for taking quick and decisive action....

The one thing both sides would agree on, surely, is that he's the best-known lawyer in the Chicago-based law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. That said, it's getting harder to...

In the end, he could not bear the thought of a lengthy trial, the dwindling finances, the specter of friends and family being forced to testify, the front-page stories day...

For the tobacco industry, the stakes are enormous. It faces what could be the largest lawsuit in the nation's history unless it persuades a federal appeals court to dissolve a...

To Lawrence Mungin's lawyer, it was a textbook case of racial discrimination. After the big Chicago firm of Katten Muchin & Zavis hired Mungin as an associate in its office...

In a decision that swept aside decades of prohibitions in Illinois and 15 other states, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that national banks can use subsidiary offices in small...

A volatile campaign issue moves to the House floor Friday as Republicans seek to reverse the 1994 ban on certain types of assault weapons. Should the repeal pass the House,...

Dexter and Gretchen Kamilewicz first learned they were involved in a nationwide class-action lawsuit after they received what amounted to a bill for lawyers' fees. Puzzled by a $91.33 "miscellaneous...

For years, some 50,000 patients who received a heart valve implant designed to save their lives have been, in the words of a federal judge, "living with the fear that,...