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The phone rings constantly, appointments seem endless, and conference calls come all too often. For John Mueller, his job as the securities manager at SSM St. Joseph’s Health Center in St. Charles and SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake ...

While talking with Tracey Mueller, it was clear she ought to be home in bed. Yet she was at work on the first day of spring for fear of getting fired or written up for taking another day off. Mueller, ...

Here’s one you don’t hear every day: Lacking serious injuries, Patrick Phillips sued Burlington Northern Railroad, saying the train wreck he was involved in caused his alcoholism to worsen dramatically. Apparently, the argument was not as far-fetched as it may ...

Sherry Towers thought she had found a dream job when Stony Brook University hired her in 2000 to work as a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator in Chicago. A woman in a male-dominated profession, Towers believed she was not ...

A doctor’s medical report submitted on behalf of a plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit merited a reversal in the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District, despite a hospital-defendant’s argument that the doctor’s report failed to show his knowledge of ...

With the burgeoning of the Internet in recent years, more and more states are tackling the issue of online access to court records. Earlier this year, Indiana approved new rules that allow access to most records, with a few restrictions ...

If the government passes a national consumption tax, expect paper recycling to become a red-hot business. “We have five feet of books explaining the complexities of the tax code, and suddenly they’d be obsolete,” said Tom Ochsenschlager, the vice president ...

Even though an embezzlement defendant stipulated to the amount of loss and was sentenced at the bottom of the federal sentencing guideline range, she was still entitled to be resentenced under a U.S. Supreme Court decision precluding the mandatory application ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this month on whether a portion of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act dealing with prisoners’ exercise of their religious rights violates the Establishment Clause. The case, Cutter v. Wilkinson, concerns ...

A recent survey conducted by Robert Half Legal Management Resources, a leading staffing service provider, asked lawyers what alternative jobs they would be interested if they were to quit their current position. The survey was distributed to 200 lawyers who ...

Editor’s note: This article is the second of two parts about S. 256, the “Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.” The bulk of the bill’s provisions would go into effect six months after enactment. Following are some ...