William Mullen

She began trying to explain that, during lunch, she remembered making the markings herself after the pre-trial deposition three years earlier. She had done it to emphasize certain entries, not...

A few months after Tony Affatato died in 1985, a Chicago malpractice lawyer dispatched a private detective in Florida on a vital mission-to discover if Affatato had attended his mother`s...

The discovery process was not always so all-encompassing. But over the last 30 years, it has been expanded in an effort to streamline the system. Instead, it may have contributed...

Except for the occasional creak of a chair, the silence in Judge William Kelly`s courtroom was complete, underscoring the tension of the moment. After two days of testimony, Shirley Affatato...

Del Campo, who handles routine family and small-business legal matters, didn`t feel prepared to take on a company as large as Jewel. So he referred the case to Holstein, whose...

''Technology has changed everything,'' says Marc Gallanter, a University of Wisconsin law professor and a leading tort scholar. ''People`s expectations have gone up, and they expect institutions and products to...

On April 2, 1985, Shirley Affatato went to her neighborhood Jewel and did something unremarkable: She bought a gallon of 2 percent milk. Reports were emerging of a salmonella outbreak...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke from her combative style of recent weeks Monday night in Chicago and politely declined to bash the policies of the man who took...

Like a ballyhooed opening of a major new Broadway show, Saturday was the time to raise the curtain for the Shedd Aquarium`s $43 million Oceanarium. The much-anticipated opening day for...

The cast of characters for Shedd Aquarium`s planned April 27 public opening of its $43 million Oceanarium will grow with the arrival of its four Pacific white-sided dolphins. Collected in...