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Heyrman on New Rules for Adult Guardianship
June 14, 2009

Legislation that would require certification of some guardians of impaired adults is expected to be signed by the governor, but one lawyer involved in Illinois guardianship reform efforts said it doesn't address the biggest problem.

IJ Clinic's Beth Milnikel Interviewed on WBEZ
May 12, 2009

The health of small businesses will be one key to turning our economy around. President Barack Obama recently announced a $15 billion recovery plan with that goal in mind. The money is intended for loans to get business moving again, and hopefully stimulate the economy. But a new report suggests...

IJ Clinic Releases Report on Regulations for Chicago Small Businesses
May 11, 2009

Want to create a job in Chicago?  It is not that easy.

Randolph Stone Discusses Life Without Parole for Illinois Youth on Chicago Public Radio's 848
February 13, 2008

The DuPage County State’s Attorney and a Republican state representative yesterday called for Governor Rod Blagojevich to lift the moratorium on the death...

Mandel Clinic Study: The Chicago Police Department's Broken System
November 14, 2007

Craig Futterman, a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Melissa Mather, a Clinical Lecturer, and Melanie Miles, a recent law graduate, have released a major study of the Chicago Police Department’s supervisory and disciplinary practices.

Policing the Police
November 1, 2007

On an April afternoon in 2003, four Chicago police officers approached Diane Bond outside her Stateway Gardens public-housing apartment. Without any cause, Bond’s lawsuit would later claim, one officer pressed his loaded pistol to her temple and forced the 48-year-old...

Mandel Clinic Organizes Conference "The View From the Ground: Issues and Inquiries Arising from Eight Square Blocks of Chicago’s South Side"
July 20, 2007

Over the past six years, the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School collaborated with residents of the Stateway Gardens public housing community in a police accountability project.

Clinic Files Suit Against CPD
March 27, 2007

The Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Cinic of the University of Chicago Law School filed a federal civil rights lawsuit charging police abuses on behalf of an anti-police abuse worker at Stateway Gardens this week, a public housing development that runs along State Street from...

Mandel Clinic Settles Suit on Behalf of Wrongfully Accused Man
October 19, 2006

Last week, Craig Futterman, Clinical Professor in the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the Law School, heard the good news that a “six-year odyssey” had come to a close. The city of Chicago had settled a civil lawsuit that he had pursued on behalf of his client Corethian “Dion...

Clinic Files Suit Against Chicago Police Department
April 7, 2005

The Chicago Police Department's practice of holding witnesses in criminal investigations happens far too often, two legal aid officials charges Wednesday.