Representative Cases

• Auto Liability: settled more than 100 cases involving personal injuries from motor vehicle accidents, including spinal injuries, broken bones, brain injuries, soft tissue injuries and property damage
• Civil Rights: case involving police officers accused of withholding vital evidence from defendant, leading to his wrongful incarceration for 13 years for murder he did not commit, and for which he was later exonerated
• Class Action: dispute involving claims of negligence and breaches of state laws and local regulations; the case arose from prolonged, three-week power outage that forced many residents out of their homes, resulting in property damage and thefts from unsecured residences
• Contract: settled dispute involving claims of breach of contract between Information Technology (IT) sales agency and their IT service provider client
• Contract: settled dispute involving claims of alleged violations of sponsorship agreement with public institution by failing to compensate institution for displaying name and logo at various events and on social media platforms
• Contract and Mergers & Acquisitions: complex multi-party litigation involving claims that minority owners’ shares were nullified by merger which should have been characterized as sale of stock; case involved claims of breach of LLC agreement, breach of fiduciary duty, usurpation of corporate opportunity, fraud and rescission of merger under Delaware law
• Contract and Fiduciary Duty: settled litigation among members of a nationwide real estate development joint venture involving claims of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and a counterclaim for corporate dissolution
• Discrimination: several cases involving claims of sex, race, national origin and age discrimination including one case tried to verdict
• Employment: settled dispute involving claims that failure to pay overtime violated requirements set forth in Illinois Minimum Wage Law (ILMW) and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• Employment: dispute involving alleged discrimination and wrongful termination of employee of school; resolved successfully
• Fiduciary Duty: case involved alleged violations of memorandum of understanding by issuing additional equity and diluting interest despite provision that granted prior approval for issuing additional stock, inter alia; resolved successfully
• Government: after issuing TRO enjoining layoffs of 180 court employees by county board, assigned a second pretrial judge and jointly conducted 40 hours of pretrial, resulting in settlement involving complex budgetary, facilities and personnel accommodations providing an additional $11 million in new funding and budget credits for court system
• Insurance Coverage: dispute concerning allegations that the insured violated Employment Recovery Income Security Act (ERISA) during the sale of business to its employees; resolved successfully
• Insurance Coverage: settled case involving denial of coverage when homeowner’s heating oil tank ruptured ruining residence and adjoining property

• Insurance Coverage: settled case in which warehouse roof collapse spoiled large quantities of spices in storage containers; case also involved issues of proximate cause
• Medical Malpractice: allegations of negligent care where plaintiff died during surgical procedure to remove plaque in coronary arteries
• Non-Compete and Trade Secrets: numerous challenges to non-compete agreements, some also involving Trade Secret Act claims, including pharmaceutical companies, physicians employed by hospital groups, home infusion care services, middle market insurance sales and sales of respiratory care products, heating and cooling coils and titanium tanks
• Nursing Home: settled multiple cases involving claims of abuse, falls, bedsores, wrongful death and medical malpractice
• Partnership Dissolution: dispute involving claims of breached fiduciary duty and usurped corporate opportunities from jointly owned business to further similar business owned and operated by defendant; resolved successfully
• Premises Liability: settled many cases involving sidewalk defects, snow removal and defects in public property involving Tort Immunity Act affirmative defenses
• Personal Injury: settled two cases involving allegations that high school districts failed to properly enforce concussion protocols for athletes
• Products Liability: settled case involving claim that highway guardrail end cap failed to function properly when struck by vehicle resulting in amputation of plaintiff’s leg
• Real Estate: settled case involving flooding on multiple large, adjoining properties along Lake Michigan shoreline; settlement involved implementation of complex drainage engineering and wetland preservation measures, delineation of ongoing drainageway maintenance obligations and financial compensation
• Real Estate: after issuing injunction limiting hours of use of wind turbine located near residential neighborhood, settled case whose agreement included re-zoning of nearby land owned by defendant to enable the re-location of the wind turbine
• Toxic Tort: settled consolidated cases involving 90 plaintiffs injured by release of toxic chemical from tank being towed between farms for application of liquid farm fertilizer; after assigning second pretrial judge, jointly engaged in multiple days of mediation, leading to settlement of all remaining plaintiffs’ claims
• Trusts: multiple trust disputes involving difficult family dynamics
• Trusts and Estates: settled dispute involving objections to plan of distribution from trust because of emergence of revised Restatement to Trustee and counterclaims of breach of fiduciary duty by beneficiary against the successor trustee
• Wrongful Death: settled a lawsuit involving claims of negligence and premises liability related to improperly repaired deck