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May 2011 • Volume 99 • Number 5
Beginning June 1, Illinois' civil union law confers most of the rights of marriage on parties to a civil union. But federal prohibitions impose important limits. Find out how the new law works.
Though there isn't much money in it, serving as appointed counsel is a way to gain invaluable courtroom experience and remind yourself why you went to law school in the first place.
The individual mandate, which penalizes the failure to buy health insurance, is at the heart of the constitutional challenges to health care reform. Here's a reader-friendly guide to the arguments.
Judicial estoppel can derail a plaintiff who filed for bankruptcy but then brought a lawsuit he failed to reveal in the bankruptcy case.
The law exempts life insurance policy proceeds from the claims of a decedent-insured's creditors. But exceptions give creditors an opportunity to recover.
Death of oral argument; the way to the courthouse; being in the moment.
The ISBA works because we - all of us - make it work.
How much process is due a criminal defendant? It's a dollars-and-cents question.
Here's a new asset-protection strategy so cool you can dance to it.
The U.S. Government Printing Office's FDsys website is a great place to find documents, too.