William Grady

Cook County`s suburban courts aren`t anywhere near the Criminal Courts Building, where people are charged by grand jury indictment or the case against them is ''no billed.'' That said, we...

Belvidere lawyer Terrence Spears is running for the U.S. Senate in the fall election, a candidate of the ''For God, Family and Country Party.'' He offers himself as an alternative...

Death has not ended the legal battle over the lives and last minutes of bank robbery suspects Jeffrey and Jill Erickson. The latest dispute, punctuated by an exchange of rhetoric...

In September 1962, John F. Kennedy was in the White House and James B. Parsons, a popular lawyer in Chicago, had just been sworn in as the country`s first federal...

Most parents probably don`t worry much about waking up some morning to find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit filed by their children. At least not yet. But...

Matrimonial heavyweight Rinella and Rinella Ltd. is the previously unidentified law firm that has been ensnared in controversy over charges of sexual misconduct, according to legal papers filed recently in...

A quick whistle in football can nullify a fumble recovery or a pass interception. But the judicial equivalent of a quick whistle has resulted in a new trial for a...

''Lawyers have a heart. Honest, they really do,'' insists Thomas A. Demetrio, the new president of the Chicago Bar Association. To drive home that point, Demetrio, who took over as...

Prosecutors know by now that they are not supposed to arbitrarily exclude African-Americans, Hispanics or other minorities from serving as jurors at criminal trials. The courts have clearly said that`s...

Rolling Meadows and Zion are facing the costly task of altering or abandoning their city emblems after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear appeals in a case that...