A recent Illinois appellate court decision has affirmed the continued viability of the intrastate forum non conveniens doctrine despite calls for its abolishment in an era of remote court proceedings and virtual depositions. In Adamian v. Balash, 2024 IL App (1st) 231876, the plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in Cook County […]

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 […]

Last month, Peter Syregelas won summary judgment on behalf of a firm insurer client after a long dispute with our client’s insured regarding coverage for an underlying class action alleging employer violations of Illinois’s Biometric Information Protection Act (“BIPA”). The case was briefed over two years ago, but decision was […]

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 […]