Topics include preserving error for review in Illinois trial proceedings; final judgments; postjudgment motions; threshold appellate issues; standing to appeal; notices of appeal, separate appeal, and cross-appeal; stays and appeal bond; dismissal of appeals by the trial court; appeals from final judgments that do not dispose of an entire proceeding; interlocutory appeals of certain orders; interlocutory appeals as of right; interlocutory appeals of certified questions; interlocutory appeals in federal court; workers’ compensation appeals; family law and child custody appeals; preliminary conferences; expedited appeals; record on appeal; motion practice; appellate briefs; oral argument; the appendix; summary affirmance on appeal; petitions for rehearing; participation as amicus curiae; direct appeals; original actions in the Illinois Supreme Court; discretionary review and appeals as of right in the Illinois Supreme Court; certification of state law questions from the Seventh Circuit to the Illinois Supreme Court; issuance and effect of mandate; sanctions in the reviewing court; and costs on appeal.
General Editors
Brad A. Elward, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Michael A. Scodro, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 — Introduction
Michael A. Scodro, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Preserving Error for Review in Illinois Trial Proceedings
Stacy E. Crabtree and Brad A. Elward, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Chapter 3 — Final Judgments
Craig L. Unrath, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Chapter 4 — Postjudgment Motions
Barry Levenstam and Henry C. Thomas, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Threshold Appellate Issues: Whether To Review and Standards of Review
Barry Levenstam, Jenner & Block LLP, and Nicole C. Berg, Gerchen Keller Capital, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 6 — Standing To Appeal
Nadine J. Wichern, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Notices of Appeal, Separate Appeal, and Cross-Appeal
Nadine J. Wichern, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Stays and Appeal Bonds
Brad A. Elward, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria, and Brian M. Smith, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Urbana
Chapter 9 — Dismissal of Appeals by the Trial Court
Barry Levenstam and Henry C. Thomas, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Appeals from Final Judgments That Do Not Dispose of an Entire Proceeding: Illinois Supreme Court Rule 304 and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b)g
William P. Hardy, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Springfield
Chapter 11 — Interlocutory Appeals of Certain Orders
Brad A. Elward and Emily Perkins, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Chapter 12 — Interlocutory Appeals as of Right
Clare J. Quish, Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, P.C., and Patrick Dwyer, Dwyer & Coogan, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 13 — Interlocutory Appeals of Certified Questions
Brad A. Elward and Jessica Sarff, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Chapter 14 — Interlocutory Appeals in Federal Court
Michael A. Scodro, Mayer Brown LLP, and Brij B. Patnaik, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 15 — Workers’ Compensation Appeals
Brad A. Elward, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Chapter 16 — Family Law and Child Custody Appeals
Elizabeth P. Butler, Law Office of Elizabeth Butler, Northbrook
Chapter 17 — Preliminary Conferences
Nadine J. Wichern, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago
Chapter 18 — Expedited Appeals
Brett E. Legner, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago
Chapter 19 — Record on Appeal
Gretchen Harris Sperry, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 20 — Motion Practice
Gretchen Harris Sperry, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 21 — Appellate Briefs
Michael A. Scodro, Jennifer T. Beach, and Kara Kapp, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 22 — Oral Argument
Michael A. Scodro, and Laura C. Bishop, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 23 — The Appendix
Gretchen Harris Sperry, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 24 — Summary Affirmance on Appeal
Michael A. Scodro, Jenner & Block LLP, and Nicole C. Berg, Gerchen Keller Capital, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 25 — Petitions for Rehearing
Michael A. Scodro and Geoffrey M. Pipoly, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 26 — Participation as Amicus Curiae
Michael A. Scodro, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 27 — Direct Appeals
Stephen F. Pflaum and Andrew G. May, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago
Chapter 28 — Original Actions in the Illinois Supreme Court
Stephen F. Pflaum, Karl R. Barnickol, and Gregory G. Forfa, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago
Chapter 29 — Discretionary Review and Appeals as of Right in the Illinois Supreme Court
Michael A. Scodro, Jenner & Block LLP, and Jason F. Krigel, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago
Chapter 30 — Certification of State Law Questions from the Seventh Circuit to the Illinois Supreme Court
Michael A. Scodro and Geoffrey M. Pipoly, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 31 — Issuance and Effect of Mandate
Brett E. Legner, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago
Chapter 32 — Sanctions in the Reviewing Court
Jessica Sarff, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria, and Anne Mergen, Robert Riffle Esq., Morton
Chapter 33 — Costs on Appeal
Anne Mergen, Robert Riffle Esq., Morton
Chapter 34 — Administrative Reviews
Owen E. MacBride, Schiff Hardin, Chicago
