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A reader provides a few caveats and supplemental information relating to Medicaid and credit shelter trusts.

A reader argues there is a serious error in an Illinois Bar Journal article concerning admitting medical expenses at trial; a reader’s defense work leads to an Illinois Pattern Jury Instruction on body-worn camera footage; and a discussion concerning when a fiduciary is a fiduciary under the Power of Attorney Act.

A reader takes the Illinois Bar Journal and a columnist to task concerning free speech and the current conflict in the Middle East.

Brokerage firms not honoring durable powers of attorney.

A reader promotes the benefits of limited-scope representation in mediations.

Strong Contracts and Frozen Eggs

While ChatGPT may be of use to lawyers, it may also present ways to escape accountability.

A reader questions the true intentions guiding opposition to nonlawyer ownership of law firms.

A reader takes issue with an attorney’s response to colleague.

Cannabis and zoning in Medponics Illinois, LLC v. Department of Agriculture.

A reader’s second thoughts on the right of first refusal.

The Appellate Court Administrative Committee of the Illinois Supreme Court requests pro bono appellate defenders to help reduce the number of pending cases with the State Appellate Defender.

Do you need a password manager?

Newspaper legal notices: a 'print-era anachronism'? Pets and divorce.

Sleeping judges.

Errata: Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law, the Installment Sales Contract Act, and contract buyers

Implicit bias.

Difficult dogs; e-filing and big data.

Defending against pro se plaintiffs.

Estate planners and malpractice claims.

Rule 23: At odds with stare decisis?

Student loans and bankruptcy.

Getting rid of Rule 23.

Flag burning; the new chief justice; wear a suit.

Flag burning then and now; property division and unmarried couples; implicit bias.

Relentless efficiency, Condo Act, dogs in cars.

Bike law, tech competence for lawyers.

Litigating sports brain injuries; collateral challenges to illegal sentences.

Mendelson and conveying real estate to a trust; Avvo 'lead generation'; charitable exemption for hospitals.

Declining caseloads, 711 licensing.