William Grady

Is 40 years in prison long enough for a killer who admits his crime, expresses remorse and asks for mercy? Absolutely, say Elmer Gertz and Donald Rothschild, the lawyers who...

Bet you thought tales of lawyers swarming to the scene of a serious accident or showing up uninvited at hospitals were from an earlier era. Wrong. In last week's column...

Many states have attorney rules that prohibit lawyers from rushing to the scene of an accident and stuffing their business cards into the pockets of the injured. But these days,...

In recent years, Juvenile Court has seemed sometimes to be the backwater of Cook County's court system-attracting attention only for its failings. But Tuesday, court officials and the not-for-profit Youth...

William Swano, a former assistant public defender who was stripped of his license to practice law after pleading guilty to federal charges that he bribed a Cook County judge, is...

It's hard to break old habits, so U.S. Atty. Fred Foreman is in no hurry to call it quits as a prosecutor. He has been the Chicago area's top federal...

You get an unexpected answer when you ask Thomas A. Reynolds Jr. to reflect on the ways that big law firms have changed over the past 40 or so years....

Though not the annus horribilis of Queen Elizabeth II, recent months have been a bit rocky for attorneys at the powerhouse law firm of Aldo E. Botti, lawyer and chairman...

You know that it`s a less-than-amicable divorce when the husband files a libel and slander lawsuit against his wife`s lawyer. In this case, Oak Brook attorney Wendy R. Morgan has...

Banquet food and innocuous after-dinner speeches were what the hundreds of lawyers, judges and their spouses expected Friday evening at an annual bar association dinner in Chicago honoring justices of...