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.  […]

Howard Trafman and Jadyn Atteberry recently obtained summary judgment in favor of a commercial property owner in a lawsuit arising out of a trip and fall in Winnebago County.  Plaintiff claimed she was walking on the sidewalk outside of the property owned and maintained by our client.   She allegedly fell […]

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 […]