Merrill Goozner

Carson Pirie Scott & Co.`s parent company sought protection from creditors in bankruptcy court Friday after talks on restructuring its huge debt failed. Milwaukee-based P.A. Bergner & Co. stressed that...

Amid allegations of fraud and incompetence, creditors of bankrupt Lifschultz Fast Freight Inc. have turned to a little-used provision of federal bankruptcy law to vote out the firm`s government-appointed trustee-Bruce...

Transcripts of a taped conversation filed in connection with the coming bribery trial of former Cook County Judge David Shields and lawyer Pat De Leo help explain the recent courtroom...

Attorney misconduct charges have been filed against a veteran Lake County prosecutor, accusing him of drafting a phony court order and signing it with the name of a retired Illinois...

The grumbling being heard these days in the ranks of the state`s judiciary is the result of tough new rules announced last week by the Illinois Supreme Court that will...

Last week`s weather couldn`t have been better. The sun shone and the air was dry. Finally, good construction weather after a long, rainy spring. Good for golfers, perhaps. But as...

The regulation of sexual behavior hardly seems a promising area for the economic analysis invariably applied by 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner. But in a...

Who`s supposed to keep the office running smoothly for U.S. Atty. Fred Foreman? That`s one of the questions raised at a hearing last Friday before U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle,...

Jan M. Grayson, 49, earlier this month assumed the reins of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, the beleaguered state agency in charge of promoting the state`s economic...

A De Paul University law professor and associate director of the school`s Health Law Institute was formally reprimanded last week by the Wisconsin Supreme Court for making a personal loan...