LPP associate Jadyn Atteberry secured a favorable trial verdict last week in Cook County in a complex multi-vehicle collision.  At the outset, our client any involvement in causing the collision and wholly blamed the co-defendant who had hit Plaintiff, our insured, and an additional vehicle. The case proceeded to trial, […]

A thorough investigation at the outset of an assignment always pays off, and Howard Trafman and Kendal Freeze-Crace certainly demonstrated that truism in a recent wrongful death case in McHenry County, Illinois. In this case, Plaintiff’s decedent allegedly consumed bad oysters.  Numerous parties were sued in an effort to sort […]

Less than two months between file assignment and summary judgment being granted?  That qualifies as a big early resolution win for James Barrow and Jadyn Atteberry on a recent Cook County premises liability case. In a complicated multiparty matter involving numerous construction companies, James Barrow and Jadyn Atteberry were able […]

The Illinois Appellate Court recently upheld summary judgment in favor of a property owner and property manager accused of allowing a parking lot to fall into disrepair, thus resulting in an unnatural ice accumulation.  Plaintiff slipped and fell on ice, sustaining serious orthopedic injuries and resulting in significant medical specials […]

In our firm’s first foray into Cook County’s mandatory arbitration program for Law Division cases, partner Kate Crouch obtained a defense verdict in favor of our client.  The case at bar involved an accident between a cyclist and a driver who left work to pick up refreshments for herself and […]