@theBar

The @theBar blog is an online publication of the Chicago Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section (YLS).  On May 16, 2018, the YLS Executive Council approved the creation of the @theBar blog as a project of the YLS Journal. The @theBar blog strives to promote the YLS’s dedication to professional development, ethical practice, the service of our profession, and the well-being of our members.

By Hannah Werner

On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court rendered an extraordinary decision that impacts the health care of all individuals. In this ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court decided that “embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children.” (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health). Since the ruling, many reproductive

By: Hannah Werner

Like undergrad, law schools are uniquely personal to each student that applies. Some may want to stay as close to home as possible, others may grasp the opportunity to leave their home state for somewhere more desirable. Either way, the factors that people use to determine the best law school for them

By: Tasneem Mewa

This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) prohibited Rite Aid from using and relying on facial recognition technology that misidentified customers and wrongly accused them of shoplifting based on matches to Rite Aid’s database. Matches often resulted in customers being accused, searched, and expelled from stores.

The statement by Commissioner Alvaro M.

By: Hannah Werner

There is debate regarding prenuptial agreements (or prenups, as they are more commonlyknown) and if signing one is worth potentially disturbing a happy couple’s upcoming vows. Theconservative (or, to some, cynical) view believes that its best to protect all parties in a couple soit is best to prepare an agreement in case

By: Judge James A. Shapiro and Adam R. Heusinkveld

Family law, which is a civil practice area, falls under the Civil Practice Act. See 750 ILCS 5/105(a) (“The provisions of the Civil Practice Law shall apply to all proceedings under this Act, except as otherwise provided by the Act”) Yet, in domestic relations matters, many

by Michael J. Brennan, Chairman. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission

In March of 2020, there was no guidepost or compass to help any of us navigate the Covid-19 Pandemic and all of its destructive power. The Workers’ Compensation Practice and the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission were floating in a sea of confusion that seemed capable of