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The company Rep. Hoffman keeps
5/11/2008 1:58 PM In a Democrat-leaning county where the leading political heavies are wealthy trial lawyers, Rep. Jay Hoffman has what the power brokers consider the right stuff.
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Have we found the missing link?
5/11/2008 8:33 AM Usually this commentary concentrates on one of the sometimes-diverse matters affecting the civil justice system -- mostly in Illinois, but sometimes nationally.
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The Weber rule
5/4/2008 4:00 PM Don Weber is gone from the Madison County bench, but he's not forgotten.
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Trial Lawyers: Polls good for billion-dollar verdicts, bad for ranking legal fairness
5/4/2008 12:00 PM The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform released its seventh-annual Harris Poll surveying senior attorneys at America's largest companies. Illinois ranked 46th overall, putting our state in the Top Five of worst legal climates. West Virginia ranked last and Delaware first, in case anyone is keeping track.
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Making our mark
4/26/2008 5:16 PM Corporate America has good reason to fear Madison County?
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Illinois still 'the Lawsuit Capital of the Midwest'
4/26/2008 12:23 PM As consumers we expect to get the most out of the money we spend. We want quality at a reasonable price because, after all, who wants to pay five-star prices for one-star products?
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Trial lawyers' favorite relic
4/20/2008 4:49 PM Around the state capitol the Structural Work Act (SWA) is known as the "trial lawyers' full employment law."
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Outlawing fun -- have our Courts gone too far?
4/20/2008 1:50 PM The recent Fifth District decision to affirm judgment against the South Roxana Dad's Club for an eight-year-old boy's injury while riding his bicycle reminded me of a case with a far different conclusion.
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Kill the Pfizer class action
4/13/2008 10:00 PM After three years of trying, class action lawyer Stephen Tillery has dropped his claim that Pfizer is "misrepresenting" consumers in its marketing of popular painkillers Bextra and Celebrex.
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How Charlton Heston saved academic freedom at Northwestern University
4/13/2008 12:41 PM His autobiography was entitled, "In the Arena" and that is most certainly where Charlton Heston lived his life.
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3/15/2008 10:00 AM By Johnny Joe Hopkins-County Mayo-Republic of Ireland -Side Bar |
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3/15/2008 9:34 AM Letters to the Editor |
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3/9/2008 12:30 PM By Tom Cross -Their View |
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