Andrew Wells discusses how the proposed Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2025 would finally prohibit most commercial ...

Metro-east courts have faced accusations of allowing venue shopping and unsubstantiated asbestos lawsuits in "judicial ...

As more companies file for bankruptcy and plaintiffs’ lawyers search for additional sources of recovery, plaintiffs’ lawyers have shifted their focus to manufacturers of cosmetic products ...

Simmons Hanly Conroy attorneys named to 2026 Illinois Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars® lists for excellence in asbestos, ...

Recognition in the 2026 edition of the Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists for Illinois reflects excellence in the ...

It wasn’t long after his lung biopsy when Terry Theis got a call from the law office of Peter Angelos. By the early 1990s, the asbestos that Theis had worked with for more than 20 years as a union ...

Ronald Huber spent 35 years as a steelworker, breathing in asbestos particles he never saw. In 1995, recruited by personal-injury lawyers he had never met, he joined a class action against 200 ...

Law firms focused on corporate wrongdoing are “willing to take risks” in emerging climate battles, one observer said, “but only when they see a decent chance of winning with a big upside on damages — ...