Jan Crawford Greenburg

While the movie ''JFK'' has renewed demands for the release of secret Warren Commission material on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, another government intrusion on the public`s right...

A three-judge federal panel has turned back an attempted raid on the state`s besieged treasury by lawyers for various factions in the congressional redistricting controversy last fall. New boundaries for...

The time has come for the legal profession to say a clear no to sexual misconduct by attorneys who prey on emotionally or financially vulnerable clients, according to one of...

Lawyer William Roemer, retired Chicago FBI agent and an author who has been going around the country promoting his Mafia book, ''War of the Godfathers,'' learned last week of a...

Is the Illinois Supreme Court getting ready to launch a statewide effort at court reform? There`s nothing official yet, but word in the legal community is that a blue-ribbon commission...

Another year of lawyering is winding down, but before we celebrate the arrival of 1992-and cringe at yet another Big 10 failure in the Rose Bowl-we pause to note some...

Authors in search of fascinating crime material are likely to find it in the case of Joshua Fierer, a former Downstate pathologist whose new trial for the 1984 murder of...

In baseball, it`s three strikes and you`re out. But it appears that De Kalb County State`s Atty. Michael Coghlan may have to be dragged unwillingly from the batter`s box in...

Shock waves from Magic Johnson`s revelation that he tested positive for the AIDS virus hit Chicago`s legal community in a way James Monroe Smith hadn`t expected. Smith, executive director of...

A Chicago law firm has been ordered to repay $141,947 in legal fees by a federal bankruptcy judge who ruled in part that its lawyers failed to disclose conflicts of...