Janan Hanna

By all accounts, Illinois' first double execution in more than 40 years went off without a hitch. Following the example of Texas, the nation's leader in multiple executions, Illinois hired...

Disbarred lawyer Jason Mitan was nowhere to be seen when a protege, fake lawyer Pryor Owens Jr., was sentenced last week to a year in jail for fraud and tax...

The collapse of Barings PLC, the two-century-old institution whose clients included British royals, shouldn't be an impediment to commerce in the Pacific Rim, according to Nicholas L. Giampietro, of Skadden...

Richard Posner's greatest hits, such as they are, just landed in bookstores under the title "Overcoming Law." It's the 20th book (count 'em) for Posner, chief judge of the federal...

In the ceremonial courtroom of the federal courthouse in Chicago, a six-foot oar, dipped in silver, is mounted on the wall. Like dozens of other similar seafaring ornaments in federal...

In the end, party politics won out over professional loyalty for Illinois State Rep. Tim Johnson (R-Urbana). Johnson, a member of the General Assembly for 19 years, also is a...

It's not a Valentine's Day story, but John Sefick's latest lunge at authority is certain to cause a few hearts to flutter. Sefick is the artist whose creations in Chicago's...

Fellow lawyers and judges before whom he appears know him as Miles N. Hartman, veteran Chicago attorney. But to members of a "club" branded by police as an urban catastrophe,...

Jurors in a Cook County civil courtroom were asked recently to decide who was to blame for the death of Christopher Hunter, a Chicago boy who died in 1988 at...

A mental health expert has determined that a 10-year-old boy named in a delinquency petition for dropping 5-year-old Eric Morse to his death from a Chicago Housing Authority high-rise is...