Merrill Goozner

If all the Supreme Court justices had been like Gabriel Duvall (who served 1810-1835), professor David Currie`s job would have been much easier. Currie, 54, teaches constitutional law at the...

Robert B. Reich, professor of management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, has been in the forefront of political economists urging American corporations to become...

Martin Tuchow, a former Democratic ward committeeman on the North Side and former Cook County board member, appears to have prospered over the years despite a conviction in 1983 on...

Creating an efficient, businesslike structure within which attorneys at Schiff Hardin & Waite can practice law is one of the trickier challenges facing Thomas P. Luning, the firm`s managing partner...

Did lawyers for convicted killer John Wayne Gacy blunder by not presenting favorable evidence at his death-penalty hearing, and was the defense team busy pursuing book deals instead of preparing...

Kelley C. Smith, a 47-year-old benefits manager for Skokie-based Brunswick Corp., got the call in late November. His Fourth U.S. Army Reserve unit stationed at Ft. Sheridan was being sent...

With 900 numbers proliferating for everything from heavy breathing to listening to Cable News Network, it comes as no surprise that a California firm has hired a few Illinois-licensed attorneys...

Illinois Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan and his top aide, Michael J. Hayes, are expected to give Gardner, Carton & Douglas-once mostly a blue-blood corporate securities-type law firm-the high-profile former public...

The U.S. Army is offering special cash bonuses of $2,000 to encourage recruits to sign up for combat jobs before the end of February in a major effort to shore...

As first-year associates at downtown law firms settle into $70,000-a-year jobs and newly minted partners contemplate what to do with their six-figure incomes, we pause this week to note the...