Legal News

Demands for ban of flaming gel fuel intensify
A Chicago man recalled his experience of sustaining personal injuries from the dangerous flaming gel fuel. He told the Chicago Tribune that he remembered seeing a fireball go towards him and when he tried to shield his face, the flaming gel covered his face, arm, and shirt...

Back Off: Bullying Litigation on the Rise
There has been a spike nationwide in lawsuits against school districts alleging that they have not done enough to prevent bullying against student, a trend fueled by the increasing awareness of bullying.

Quinn Emanuel move entrepreneurial conditions eastward to Chicago
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, a Los Angeles-based business litigation law firm with about 400 lawyers, has quietly set up shop in Chicago, creating an office of six attorneys this month following the hiring of a new Chicago partner...

Moving Children Around A Failure in Chicago
Arne Duncan's, former head of Chicago Public Schools and now U.S. Secretary of Education, strategy in Chicago was to move children out of underperforming schools to other schools. The only problem is that the "other schools" were also underperfoming...

Current Mortgage Rates 6/4: Mortgage Rates to Record 4.375%
``A big drop in the Dow today -324.0 (-3.16%), fueled by a worse than expected jobs report, pushed investors toward bonds helping mortgage rates, which move the opposite direction of bond yields...

Fueled
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) competes in a CPU duopoly against Intel, holding a 20% market share short-straw to Intel's 80%. The struggle has been fierce, and now moves into a new phase...

Bunk Beds
Injuries on the rise

Chicago Golf Course
101 Year Old Owner Must Get $25 Million for Property

Parks Department
Chicago to pay $2 million settlement in playfield lawsuit.

Securities Fraud
Chicago Bridge & Iron agrees to $10.5 million shareholder class action settlement.