Kate Crouch and Steve Schuetz, two old dogs, learned and demonstrated a new trick in earning dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act case in Cook County.  Plaintiff claimed that our client, a process server, falsified an affidavit of […]

James Barrow and Kendal Freeze-Crace recently secured a voluntary dismissal with prejudice on behalf of our client, a third-party maintenance provider, in a premises liability action pending in the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff alleged that she sustained a traumatic brain injury while shopping at a nationwide department store […]

Proving the truism that a strong deposition of the plaintiff is the best tool for winning a dispositive motion in a premises liability case, Kate Crouch and Steve Schuetz recently earned summary judgment in a DuPage County matter involving a slip and fall on a wet floor at Plaintiff’s workplace.  […]

Transferring risk is always top of mind for LPP attorneys.  In two recent cases, Howard Trafman obtained dismissal of a pending action through the early and careful analysis of the contractual documents by tendering the defense essentially back to the party that filed the action against our clients. In one […]

Being named as a third-party defendant does not mean going along for the ride.  Howard Trafman and Jadyn Atteberry recently demonstrated that fact by securing a low-dollar direct settlement with Plaintiff in a significant motor vehicle case with nearly $400,000 in medical specials alone. Plaintiff, an employee of our client’s […]