14 November

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High profile Chicago attorney takes on Mariah Yeater as client

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11/8/2011 Deborah Kim Justin Bieber may have all the money in the world to hire the best legal team in town, but lawyers sure love an underdog. Fox News reported well-known Chicago lawyer Jeffrey Leving will head up Mariah Yeater's case. Leving frequently makes appearances on news shows and is a paternity law expert whose usual clientele consists of fathers looking for custody of their children and other rights post-divorce. Rolling Stone reported Yeater claims Justin Bieber is her 4-month-old son's father. Since day one, the Biebs has been vehemently denying that he had sex with the 20-year-old and fathered a child. However, he is...

09 May

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Pella window class-action suit survives certification

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Pella case includes consumers who have not suffered any financial damages but may in the future Ameet Sachdev Chicago Law May 10, 2011 Class-action lawsuits face stiff head winds in courts and the court of public opinion. But that doesn't stop class-action lawyers and judges from finding creative ways to cut through the currents, as illustrated by a federal case in Chicago that has survived layers of judicial scrutiny. The suit involves allegations of defective products sold by Pella Corp., an Iowa-based manufacturer of windows and doors. Consumers should take notice because their ability to challenge corporate wrongdoing through class-action suits has been diminished...

06 April

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Chicago family sues over baby’s death

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Associated Press The parents of a baby who died after getting an incorrect dosage of nutrients in an IV are suing the suburban Chicago hospital where the infant was born. Lawyers for Fritzie and Cameron Burkett say the Chicago couple's six-week-old son, Genesis, died after mistakenly receiving about 60 times the prescribed dose of sodium chloride. Attorney Patrick Salvi says the boy's October 2010 death left the Burketts devastated. The child died at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Advocate Healthcare spokeswoman Kelly Jo Golson acknowledged that an "error" was made. She says their prayers are with the family. via Chicago family...

14 January

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Slip and Fall Cases – Chicago Lawyer Jeffrey Friedman, P.C.

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Slip and Fall Cases - Chicago Lawyer Jeffrey Friedman, P.C....

04 December

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Can Lawyers Be Trusted – On the Internet?

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As an online marketer I have worked for many years developing, deploying and studying evolving ways for marketing professional services online. My specific focus has been both lawyers and their firms and financial services firms. While financial services firms are notoriously conservative in their initiatives, lawyers often approach comatose. There are many understandable reasons for this which I won’t explore here. But one of them is the fear and uncertainty perpetrated through each state’s bar association rules about exactly how they might go to market. Fear has a chilling effect on exploration and that includes lawyers’ effective use...

24 November

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Wrongful death suit: Round Lake Beach inmate died at Menard facility

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By Beth Kramer Nov 23, 2010 Lawyers recently filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Ingram’s surviving family in Round Lake Beach, according to attorney Benjeman Nichols of Cavanagh Law Group in Chicago. Ingram died on June 26 while in custody at the Menard Correctional Facility, according to Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel. Ingram was taking psychotropic drugs, which have the tendency to raise a person’s core body temperature. The temperature high that day was 96 degrees and it was 91 degrees near Ingram’s cell, Dudenbostel said. link...

21 November

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Lawyer Lies, Part 2

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Michael Helfand on 10.26.10 Every day this week I'm discussing a different lie told by attorneys in the Chicago area. Today's lie is: You can't fire me! While in the best scenario you'd never need to find a new attorney, I'm blown away by the number of lawyers who make their clients believe that they are stuck with them. It happens all of the time in workers' compensation and personal injury claims and often in criminal cases too. There is nothing that prevents you from getting a new attorney. In personal injury cases, if a lawsuit hasn't been filed, it's often as...

26 August

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PERSONNEL FILE: Jackson Kelly attorneys, practices honored by Best Lawyers

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PERSONNEL FILE: Jackson Kelly attorneys, practices honored by Best Lawyers 8/26/2010 7:56 AM CHARLESTON -- Jackson Kelly is pleased to announce that 61 of the firm's lawyers were recently named in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Lawyers from across the firm's offices were honored in the publication. Nationwide, Jackson Kelly was top-listed in workers' compensation law. In addition, Jackson Kelly was the only firm in West Virginia top-listed in administrative law, criminal defense: white-collar, environmental law, information technology law, mining law, natural resources law, personal injury litigation and workers' compensation law. The firm also is top-listed in Charleston, W.Va. Jackson Kelly...

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