Chicago

A West Loop law firm sends every lawyer to eviction court. The judge says it shows.

Hale & Mercer LLP has logged more than 2,000 pro bono hours this year, most of it on the Chicago Legal Clinic's housing docket. Managing partner Elena Marsh says the minimum is not negotiable.

By Dana Whitcomb, Daily Ledger staff · 14 Aug 2026

Chicago

A Beverly house bought in 1962 stays in the family, after a lawyer untangled forty years of paperwork

The deed was never updated when the owner's husband died in 1991. A young associate from a West Loop firm cleared the title; the granddaught…

13 Aug 2026

Chicago

Twelve years on, the Pilsen clinic that took forty-one closings sees 60,000 patients a year

The community health centre on 18th Street nearly didn't happen. The lawyer who assembled its eleven parcels says the holdout who almost sto…

26 Jul 2026

Chicago

Hale & Mercer names former public defender Daniel Okafor to lead litigation group

The West Loop firm's eleven-lawyer trial practice will be led by a partner who tried more than sixty cases before joining private practice.

24 Jun 2026