William Grady

Vice President Dan Quayle is usually talking about lawyers when he complains of the litigation explosion confronting the nation`s courts. But Carol Marks Jacobsohn, widow of a local theater magnate,...

The Illinois Department of Public Aid should have been notified when Edna Moseley received $28,750 from the sale of timber rights on property she had inherited in Alabama. On that...

Veteran lawyer and jurist William Sylvester White, who lost a challenge to the state`s mandatory retirement law last year, lost another contest last week, this one to a process server...

For the politically correct set, one of the hot-button issues before the U.S. Supreme Court this year involves whether municipalities have the right to ban ritual animal sacrifices. Expect a...

The chairman of the Illinois Racing Board said hearings on next year`s racing dates will be reopened after the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the board`s past procedures were...

Confronted with a choice between duty and family in 1987 when floodwaters appeared to threaten his home, Clifford Launius opted for family. Launius, then a Des Plaines police officer, left...

Sybaris Clubs International operates a chain of adults-only inns where couples can indulge their romantic fantasies, but what brings the club before a Lake County Circuit Court judge this week...

A thing of beauty may be a joy for its manufacturer, but it`s not necessarily art. That was the ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge James B. Parsons in an...

Possible career moves have been put on hold for five state court judges and a Chicago law professor, at least until after the fall election. The six are candidates for...

They met when they were adversaries at Cook County Criminal Court. Now, more than 50 years later, they have become friends-former prosecutor and veteran lawyer Julius L. Sherwin and Chicago`s...