In your story about the Illinois attorney general’s race, you wrote that my former colleague Lisa Madigan “has never handled a legal case on her own (“Madigan has never soloed on legal case,” Metro, Feb. 5). As the senior partner and head of the litigation department in the firm where Madigan worked for nearly four years, I feel it necessary to correct the statement.
While she was at our firm, Madigan handled a wide variety of cases in the sense that she was responsible for managing the case, dealing with the clients and opposing counsel and doing the preliminary work necessary to bring a case to trial. But over 90 percent of all cases are settled or otherwise thrown out before trial. Not trying a case is quite different from the responsibility a lawyer like Madigan had for managing a case that was eliminated by settlement or a number of other ways other than by trial.
