Yesterday Lauralaw held their annual Staff Christmas party at their brand new gleaming offices! As a quick aside I wrote a post (which I lost somewhere in the Cloud) a few weeks back right before the big moving day saying … Continue reading
by: Tim Black Anyone who has ditched their mask and gone outside in Chicago over the past two years knows that the odor of cannabis is everywhere. Since adult recreational use of cannabis was decriminalized at the start of 2020, … Continue reading
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, LauraLaw would like to wish everybody well and urge everyone who has the ability – to stay home. As law offices are deemed an essential service, there will be some (but … Continue reading
By: Tim Black As promised, you can look to LauraLaw for continued updates on coronavirus court closures in the Chicagoland area during this period of social distancing and home confinement. To that end, the Circuit Court of Cook County has … Continue reading
By: Tim Black Sometimes it takes a little Coronavirus Court Closures, a little social distancing, and a little working from home to realize how much you love your job. As I sit at my dining room table, surrounded by the mess … Continue reading
Per Lexi Cortes of the Belleville News-Democrat, 36 people have been evicted from Granite City public housing projects in the years spanning 2014 to 2018 for violating the cities strict crime free housing ordinance. A number of these evictees saw … Continue reading
On New Year’s Eve, the night before the long-anticipated legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Illinois, Governor Pritzker pardoned over 11,000 people with low-level marijuana convictions. Illinois is the first state to include a process for those previously convicted of … Continue reading
Per Jaime Monks of the Chicago Tribune, Illinois governor J.B Prizker and a group of other democratic lawmakers in congress are looking to cap Insulin prices for Diabete patients at $100 out of pocket for a 30 day supply. An … Continue reading
– Aqua Illinois provides water to a number of communities including the 7,000 strong Village of University Park but on Friday they were sued because of lead contamination in that water. The lead isn’t news to them as Aqua actually … Continue reading
Although this blog usually covers Illinois legal issues, events such as the mass shootings that happened over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio need to be covered because they affect all of us. I won’t give the … Continue reading
