Merrill Goozner

People who make uninvited and unanticipated use of Chicago Transit Authority property should take care because they may not be able to collect if they are killed or injured, according...

The legal and financial fallout from the $1.7 billion federal bailout of Miami`s CenTrust Savings Bank threatens to engulf one of Chicago`s wealthiest and most politically influential lawyers, Perry J....

The Teamsters union will place mob-dominated Local 703 under trusteeship Friday after being warned by the union`s court-appointed administrators that the local`s plan to pull out of the union threatened...

The burden of the federal government`s $500 billion deficit-reduction package would be borne by most kinds of U.S. consumers, from the idle rich to the forcibly idled. Even the lovesick...

Imagine running an election for 1.5 million voters in 639 political subdivisions with thousands of polling places where election irregularities are a frequent occurrence. Have you just been put in...

Members of the Women`s Bar Association of Illinois have learned that adversarial relationships between lawyers aren`t necessarily confined to the courtroom. An unfriendly letter late last month from the group`s...

The cold war between Richard Phelan, Democratic candidate for president of the Cook County board, and his former boss, Philip Corboy, degenerated into open hostilities last week. Phelan, whose need...

The American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday agreed to settle an antitrust suit over a policy of the institute`s Chicago chapter that barred members from...

What do the partners whisper when a lawyer decides to take off early one afternoon to watch the kid`s Little League game? If the lawyer is a woman, she runs...

The courtroom walls in Belleville, Ill., don`t have ears, but it`s best to remember when practicing law there that court proceedings in St. Clair County often are tape-recorded. A Belleville...