Merrill Goozner

Legal heavyweight William J. Harte is a savvy generalist who often represents other lawyers in trouble with the state agency that investigates complaints against attorneys. Past clients include former Chicago...

Legal heavyweight William J. Harte is a savvy generalist who often represents other lawyers in trouble with the state agency that investigates complaints against attorneys. Past clients include former Chicago...

The fallout from the stunning $38 million arbitration judgment that former brokerage executive Robert Kanuth won against a financial services unit of Kemper Corp. continues to radiate through Chicago legal...

Television was in the courtroom to record the verdict last year when disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg was convicted in New York on first-degree manslaughter charges for beating to death his...

Philip Corboy, one of the city`s-and the country`s-best known personal-injury lawyers, is making a relatively rare foray into defense work. Corboy has agreed to represent Cook County State`s Atty. Cecil...

Philip Corboy, one of the city`s-and the country`s-best known personal-injury lawyers, is making a relatively rare foray into defense work. Corboy has agreed to represent Cook County State`s Atty. Cecil...

Lawyer Robert M. Ellis looted the estates of two women between 1983 and 1985. He stole more than $520,000 and gambled away the money on highly speculative investments at the...

''Making Peace With the Planet,'' by Barry Commoner. Pantheon Books, 243 pages, $19.95. Earth Day must have been a severe disappointment to the movement`s anti-corporate activists. The message of the...

Fisticuffs in the halls outside Bankruptcy Court and a bit of unauthorized gunplay in the U.S. attorney`s office prove once again that the legal world sometimes is stranger in real...

Imagine you`ve fought traffic to get home after a tough day at the plant or office. You walk into the house, and the spouse says, ''Honey, the hot water tank...