Akerman LLP is proud to announce that its litigation success in an intellectual property trial in 2021 has won the acclaim of Chicago’s Law Bulletin Media in its 11 th annual “Trial Lawyer Excellence Awards.” The Akerman lawyers involved will be celebrated on the evening of Tuesday, October 25th, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago
A law firm will have to face a lawsuit claiming that it violated confidentiality laws when it disclosed mental health records about its lawyer client when touting a win in his medical-malpractice case, according to an Illinois appeals court.
Megan O Connor, a partner at Levin & Perconti, a Chicago personal injury and medical malpractice firm, has been named one of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin s 40 Under 40 honorees.
ABA president responds: Chilling effect of rule on harassment is hypothetical- Deborah Enix-RossPresident, American Bar AssociationIn your opinion piece titled “The ABA is at it again, advocating to silence lawyers with conduct rule” (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Sept. 21), the author expresses his dislike of ABA Model Rule of.
I devoted my presidency of the Illinois State Bar Association to three major initiatives. First, I created and sponsored ISBA s Business Institute. The Business Institute is designed to offer programmatic resources designed to support attorneys in the building of practices and the actual back-office business facets that each attorney needs as every practice is a business at its core.