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The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (NDIL) and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association honored a Jenner & Block team with its 2026 Pro Bono and Public Interest Award for Excellence at a ceremony on May 1. The award honors lawyers who have served the Northern District Court and the community by providing pro bono representation and advocacy.

When Dwayne Cummings arrived at Cook County Jail as a pretrial detainee in 2022, he had not been convicted of a crime. He was awaiting resolution of a separate criminal matter, one that would ultimately be dismissed. In the meantime, however, Dwayne was subject to the conditions of the Cook County Jail.

The California Invasion of Privacy Act creates a private right of action for individuals who have been the victim of, for example, the wiretapping of their telephone lines. With dramatic advances in technology, private plaintiffs have filed CIPA claims connected to customer service call recordings, transcription services, and website chat services.

Microplastics are small plastic particles released from plastic products as they break down over time, and they are present everywhere in the environment.1Although there is not yet conclusive scientific evidence demonstrating how microplastics affect human health, increased focus has been placed on potential health effects from microplastics.2Lawyers for class action plaintiffs are paying attention too.

As businesses have increasingly recognized the importance of obtaining insurance coverage specific to cyber incidents, so too have insurers increasingly recognized the risks inherent in providing such coverage - particularly where those cyber incidents potentially may be connected to sovereign state and government actors. In 2023, the insurance market introduced significant, substantive modifications to their policies in an attempt to address such incidents. Policyholders are encouraged to take

An Illinois federal jury awarded clients Kraft Heinz Co., Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc., and Nestle USA Inc. $17.7 million for the damages they suffered from the overcharges they paid due to a conspiracy to inflate the prices of eggs by the nation’s largest egg producers and two industry groups. The plaintiffs are entitled to have the $17.7 million trebled. 

After a five-week trial, a federal jury in Illinois found that two of the largest egg producers in the nation, Cal-Maine Food and Rose Acre Farms, and two egg trade groups, United Egg Producers and United States Egg Marketers, are liable for conspiring to inflate the prices of eggs from the late 1990s through at least 2008.

Jenner & Block has published the 2023 edition of Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook Analyzing Issues under the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, a comprehensive look at issues related to attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. First published in 1984, the guide remains one of the firm’s most popular publications and an invaluable resource.

It is an all-too-common scenario for insurance practitioners. Company A hires an independent contractor to perform work on its premises. Their agreement specifies that Contractor will procure liability insurance—often described in the agreement as a “minimum of,” “at least” or “no less than” a specified dollar limit—and further requires that Company A be named as an additional insured on that liability insurance. An accident happens; Contractor employees are injured while working on Company A pr

This article was originally published in Law360 on May 15, 2023.

When it comes to insurance policies, it is well-established and commonly understood that the applicable rules of contract construction generally favor the policyholder over the insurance company. Indeed, the policyholder’s advantage is so significant (or at least is perceived as such) that insurers routinely try to find some basis to argue that contra proferentem—the principle that ambiguities in a contract should be resolved against the drafter—and other policyholder-friendly rules of construct

Jenner & Block filed an amicus brief in Travis County, Texas in Doe v. Abbott on behalf of Professor Ron Beal, a Texas administrative law expert, in support of the plaintiffs’ application for a temporary injunction and as part of our pro bono work with Lambda Legal and the ACLU to defend transgender youth rights.

A class action lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois reveals the egregious living conditions for approximately 1,000 prisoners at the Northern Reception Center in Crest Hill, the point of entry for most prisoners into the Illinois Department of Corrections prison system.