Representative Cases

• Auto Liability: defendant tow truck driver speeding and using cell phone failed to see Plaintiff’s vehicle in intersection causing collision and traumatic brain damage to Plaintiff
• Bankruptcy & Fiduciary Duty: settled a multi-day remote mediation with over 40 participants involving claims of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, as well as a bankruptcy trustee who oversaw the liquidation of numerous assets
• Construction: defect and contract cases involving condominium associations, single-family homes and condominiums
• Construction: defect and contract case with plaintiff seeking damages involving Chicago’s most expensive home at the time
• Contract: international arbitration involving millions of dollars and multiple entities; complex claims of material breach of a supply agreement, breach of warranty, failure to perform, defective work and negligent misrepresentations, inter alia, regarding the construction and installation of a green energy project
• Contract: settled a dispute involving claims that defendant violated their operating agreement and the Illinois Limited Liabilities Act by failing to permit the plaintiff to participate in meetings about the management and finances of a member managed limited liability company
• Contract: arbitrator in matters involving corporate properties and corporate entities, fiduciary duty, unfair competition issues and patent issues as part of a tripartite panel
• Contract: complex matter involving the question of a hospital’s obligation to treat indigent patients and what rates should be charged to uninsured patients, including application of the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and Illinois Revenue Act
• Contract: as a judge, held that the theory of implied indemnity will not support a third-party action where the underlying lawsuit against the third-party plaintiff is grounded in breach of contract
• Contract: claims of engineering and architectural defects in airport design
• Contract: dispute regarding sports conferences between a university and athletic association
• Contract: Magnuson Moss Act case determining commercial versus private vehicle coverage in warranty cases

• Employment: settled dispute involving claims that defendant employer retaliated and discriminated against plaintiff via termination for pretextual reasons, violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Illinois Human Rights Act
• Estates: plaintiff claimed that trustees breached fiduciary duty by selling outstanding common stock within a trust at less than fair market value and without proper notification; matter settled
• Directors & Officers (D&O): FDIC cases against national banking institutions; allegations of failed loans by directors and officers
• Employment: retaliatory discharge and the whistleblower statute
• Intellectual Property: settled dispute involving claims that defendant misappropriated proprietary information
• Medical Malpractice: multiple parties and complex issues that involved C-section of mother, death of child, fetal monitoring strips and actions of hospital staff and medical personnel
• Partnership Dispute: shareholders purportedly misidentified their positions in the company, falsified records and attempted to take control from majority shareholders; case settled
• Partnership Dispute: partnership dissolution with a dispute over the pension and other retirement benefits
• Personal Injury: matter involved municipality that hosted community event and contracted to erect large tent; tent collapsed during inclement weather, causing injuries to plaintiff’s ribs, lungs, liver, kidney and ankle when hit with tent pole; settled case
• Personal Injury: passenger and flight attendant confrontation as related to possible security concerns
• Real Estate: claims that defendant violated two mortgage broker agreements by failing to indemnify plaintiff against losses allegedly experienced from numerous defunct loans brokered by defendant
• Subrogation: settled a dispute involving allegations of defendant negligence that resulted in a residential property fire and subsequent payments made by subrogating carriers to their insureds