Lauraann Wood

Fuel and oil drivers at a suburban Chicago petroleum company can vote on whether to join the Teamsters, a National Labor Relations Board official said, rejecting the employer's argument that the petitioned-for bargaining unit should have been broader.

A below-the-knee amputee who lost his medical malpractice trial urged the Illinois Supreme Court to order a retrial in his case Tuesday, arguing a note stating a juror sided with the defense simply to end deliberations proves the verdict was not unanimous.

Republic Airways and an International Brotherhood of Teamsters local unit have resolved their legal differences over an arbitration award the airline challenged in federal court, removing the local's bid to reinstate the award from the Seventh Circuit's docket.

An Illinois federal judge suspended all briefing deadlines Monday in Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO, following the parties' signal that they've resolved their legal issues in principle.

GTCR BC Holdings LLC can continue with its plan to acquire the nation's leading medical coatings supplier and merge it with the nation's second leading provider while federal regulators challenge the transaction in-house, an Illinois federal judge said Monday, refusing to halt the deal.

An Illinois federal judge on Monday dismissed a former Northwestern law student's third attempt to lodge a viable discrimination case over the university's alleged failure to protect her from harassment that cost her a job at DLA Piper, but said the student can try again to replead her case.

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated a district court's decision to award an alternative MengEryt company statutory damages in a default judgment against an alleged counterfeiter of its "Deady Teddy Backpack," saying the trial court should have addressed the company's preference for disgorgeable profits instead.

An Illinois federal judge told Edelson PC on Friday to either dismiss its conversion case against two former Girardi Keese attorneys in a "clean" and "unadulterated" stipulation or submit legal authority supporting its desire to condition the dismissal on him adopting side agreements the parties outlined in their filing.

The chief of staff to former Chicago City council member Carrie Austin admitted Wednesday he misappropriated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds in a criminal case that also accused him and Austin of accepting benefits from contractors seeking city assistance for a development project in her ward.

Edelson PC has signaled plans to drop civil claims it lodged against two former Girardi Keese attorneys over Tom Girardi's theft of millions from clients, but the Illinois federal judge handling the case said Friday that he wants to discuss the firm's filing.