WASHINGTON - Democrat Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have sent a list of names to the White House to consider for U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois: former Madison County chief judge Ann Callis, State Sen. Rachelle Crowe (D-Maryville) and Williamson County State's Attorney Brandon Zanotti.
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05/19/21
Mike Helfand
One trap too many lawyers fall in to, including myself at times, is to assume the person they are talking to knows things that we take for granted. If you are an iron worker, you shouldn t expect that someone you don t work with will understand what it means to be a journeyman or what rigging is. Lawyers shouldn t expect clients to know common legal terms either.
I try to talk in plain English, but sometimes don t. Whether you are a client, potential client or someone just looking around, I want you to know what terms we consider to basic mean because they likely aren t basic to you nor should they be. Here are some common ones:
By Benjamin Cox on April 28, 2021 at 1:07pm
Electronic filing is now fully operational for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. The cloud-based system, called CompFile, allows for filing and processing of court documents completely electronically.
The extensive project, which came to fruition during the tenure of Chairman Michael J. Brennan, was completed while operations were severely restricted because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
CompFile has slowly been incorporated into the workers’ compensation process since February of last year. CompFile users experienced a drastic decrease in approval times, as CompFile eliminated the necessity for paper settlement contracts to be circulated by mail. The final phase of an almost fully-paperless system came last Tuesday.
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For Immediate Release – April 26, 2021
Electronic Filing Is Now Fully Operational for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission
Filing and case management are now fully paperless processes for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC). The cloud-based system, called CompFile, allows for filing and processing of court documents completely electronically.
The extensive project, which came to fruition during the tenure of Chairman Michael J. Brennan, was completed while operations were severely restricted because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Commission and I want to thank Governor JB Pritzker for helping make it possible to take this huge technological step forward. While this improvement was needed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges we have faced in the last year make it even more clear how important it is to have a robust paperless system in place,”