William Grady

On the surface, there's a certain morbid irony about the legal scuffle under way before the federal appeals court in Chicago: The big-firm lawyers for an inmate on death row...

After three years of nasty litigation in state and federal court-and the expenditure of more than $2.5 million in legal fees-the feuding partners of Treasure Island Foods Inc. may have...

There was an objection of sorts voiced last week when defense lawyer Ralph Meczyk asked U.S. District Judge Ann C. Williams to sentence his client, a minor-league hoodlum, to a...

Candidates for the federal bench in Chicago would be advised to take a look at those child-care records before sending in their applications. The 20-page questionnaire now going out to...

Patricia Andrew has an idea that could be of interest to anyone who has felt frustrated after attempting to communicate with a lawyer. She has billed a Chicago law firm...

A doctor and a Waukegan hospital have settled a lawsuit brought by a former patient who alleged that he was held a virtual prisoner in his hospital room because he...

Former investment banker Michael J. Marshall appears to have turned his experience as a jailhouse lawyer into a profitable new career. Marshall spent a lot of time reading law books...

One of government's least-loved agencies has been held in contempt of court by a federal bankruptcy judge and ordered to pay the legal fees of a Joliet couple who have...

Will it be merit selection or politics as usual? That question reflects the uneasiness in some legal quarters over the membership of the screening panel set up by U.S. Sens....

William Swano, once a busy criminal-defense lawyer in Chicago and soon-to-be key witness at the coming federal trial of a former Cook County judge, admitted last week that he has...