A loophole in Illinois campaign finance law allowed lawyers to funnel money to nonprofit groups that then funded Gordon Maag’s Supreme Court election campaign, while hiding the source of their funding. The Edwardsville-based “Justice For All Foundation…

…is the son of the similarly-named Democratic senator from Delaware. The Madison County Record is reporting that the SimmonsCooper law firm (OL Dec. 1; Sep. 20; Sep. 28; OL Jan. 5, 2004) has affiliated itself with the 36-year-old’s Delaware law…

…is the son of the similarly-named Democratic senator from Delaware. The Madison County Record is reporting that the SimmonsCooper law firm (OL Dec. 1; Sep. 20; Sep. 28; OL Jan. 5, 2004) has affiliated itself with the 36-year-old’s Delaware law…

…is the son of the similarly-named Democratic senator from Delaware. The Madison County Record is reporting that the SimmonsCooper law firm (OL Dec. 1; Sep. 20; Sep. 28; OL Jan. 5, 2004) has affiliated itself with the 36-year-old’s Delaware law…

We’ve previously been critical of the Whittington v. U.S. Steel case (Overlawyered, Jan. 5, 2004; Sep. 20). Now the U.S. Steel lawyer makes a sensational allegation: it appears one of U.S. Steel’s co-defendants was a Madison County company represented …

We’ve previously been critical of the Whittington v. U.S. Steel case (Overlawyered, Jan. 5, 2004; Sep. 20). Now the U.S. Steel lawyer makes a sensational allegation: it appears one of U.S. Steel’s co-defendants was a Madison County company represented …

In 2002, Madison County (Dec. 3, Oct. 7, etc.)–where juries and judges are notorious for finding liability where no other courts will–led the nation in class actions per capita when there were 77 filed in the state courts there. In…