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2014 Judicial Primary Evaluations Now Available!

The Chicago Council of Lawyers presents its evaluations and Chicago Appleseed presents VoteForJudges.org, the nonpartisan judicial evaluation and judicial information website. In Illinois, judges are elected. People will be voting for judicial candidates on March 18, 2014. Each of these candidates...

Filling Judicial Vacancies

The Chicago Tribune has reported that Justice Freeman of the Illinois Supreme Court has appointed his long-time law clerk, Jean Cocozza, to a vacancy in the Circuit Court. The Tribune reports that Judge Cocozza has no courtroom experience and that she was not evaluated for judicial service by any in...

Thoughts on Judicial Evaluation, Following Judge Brim’s Acquittal

Judge Liam Brennan, who normally sits in Will county, presided over the misdemeanor battery trial of Judge Cynthia Brim. Judge Brim offered the defense that she was legally insane at the time of the incident at the Daley Center courthouse which lead to her arrest, suspension from the bench and trial...

You CAN Take It With You: Judicial Candidate Evaluations into Illinois Voting Booths

45 of the candidates running in Tuesday's Cook County Illinois primary were deemed "not recommended" or "not qualified" by at least one reviewing organization, and the SunTimes wants to know how voters are supposed to discern the best candidates when they're faced with numerous options in the booth....