William Grady

There's been much talk in recent years about efforts to reverse what many see as a steady decline in civility in the legal profession. Some lawyers have this quaint notion...

You don't have to be a successful divorce lawyer to know when someone is angry, especially when she storms into your Burr Ridge law office. But in the case of...

Can Cook County's juvenile court system be patched up? Fixed with a bit of tinkering? A Chicago lawyer who has become immersed in child-welfare issues over the last two years...

Henry Leon Harris, a former El Rukn "general" and star witness in the government's massive case against the gang, had just completed testifying one summer evening in 1991 when a...

A senior partner at a leading intel-lectual-property law firm in Chicago appears to have been nudged out the door after agreeing earlier this year to settle insider trading charges brought...

As White House policy wonks fiddle with the administration's health-care reform proposal-with its vision of cost-savings, better benefits and regional insurance purchasing co-ops-they might consider the unhappy story of Grace...

Luis Guillen-Garcia is a factory worker and a father of five who has lived in this country legally since his teens. He's also an ex-convict who served 4 1/2 years...

Jonathan Baum leaves one large law firm this month to become a rainmaker of sorts-but a very unusual rainmaker-at another large firm. Law firms these days routinely hire away attorneys...

A copyright infringement lawsuit involving two composers of what might be described as inspirational music is turning ugly as it winds through federal court in New York. The litigation pits...

Paul L. Glover, former vice president and general counsel of the independent Chicago Truck Drivers Union who was unseated for president in a hotly contested election last year, is setting...