The following contract-related cases were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Jan. 2. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Neal Gerber Eisenberg is pleased to announce that Steven Pflaum, partner and co-chair of the firm’s litigation department, was honored by The Illinois Judges Association (IJA) at their annual luncheon on December 7, 2018, for his esteemed service on the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee.
Neal Gerber Eisenberg is pleased to announce that Jason C. Kim, a partner in the Labor & Employment practice group, has been named to Chicago’s Notable Minority Lawyers 2018 presented by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Prominent Chicago law firm Seyfarth Shaw, financial services company Northern Trust, and others have sidestepped a racketeering claim brought by a financial services provider who claimed he was misled into investing in an illegal tax shelter that eventually cost him more than $10 million in back taxes, fees, interest and penalties.
Hospitals in Illinois have secured a key win in a longrunning court fight over whether they should be required to pay property taxes, as the Illinois Supreme Court has upheld as constitutional a state law allowing hospitals to remain tax exempt.
Neal Gerber Eisenberg is pleased to announce that Litigation partner Eric Y. Choi has been named one of the 2018 “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch” by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company.
While noting the plaintiffs had presented statements which could indicate price-fixing activity, a federal appeals panel has refused to melt down a lower court’s decision to slice up a potentially massive class action lawsuit accusing U.S. steelmakers of conspiring to jack up prices for raw steel.
Neal Gerber Eisenberg is proud to announce its participation in Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule 2.0 initiative, which aims to increase the representation of diverse lawyers in law firm leadership roles by broadening the pool of candidates considered for those positions.
Forty-five attorneys from Neal Gerber Eisenberg have been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2019 edition, including two NGE attorneys who were honored with "Lawyer of the Year" awards.
State bureaucrats who regulate real estate appraisers in Illinois have no authority to prosecute property tax lawyers, a Cook County judge has ruled, finding regulators overreached in claiming lawyers violated state appraiser licensing rules by using comparable property values to argue for a lower tax assessment for thieir clients.
Four Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP practice groups and 16 attorneys have been recognized among the top in the nation in the newly released 2018 edition of The Legal 500 United States.
A Cook County judge could soon weigh in on a legal fight between Illinois’ largest association of lawyers and a state regulatory agency, over the question of whether that state agency has the authority to effectively bar Illinois property tax lawyers from offering estimates of a property’s value when representing property owners before a state or county property tax appeal board.
A Chicago federal judge has come down hard on a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by an online pornographer against a video sharing website, saying parts of the pornographer's suit were “woefully deficient,” but nevertheless allowing the suit to limp along.
The Illinois State Bar Association has asked a Cook County judge to order state regulators to back off of prosecutions against lawyers the state agency has accused of appraising real estate without a license, because the lawyers purportedly included real estate comps and other real estate value metrics in property tax appeals.
A group of steel makers, led by Chicago-based ArcelorMittal USA, have beaten down a class-action antitrust lawsuit filed by more than a dozen consumers, who alleged the companies schemed to raise prices for goods made with steel, by pointing out the consumers were too far down the distribution line from the steel manufacturers to claim losses.
A group of workers whose walkout over unpaid wages all but shut down a troubled Chicago coffeehouse chain for weeks, has sued the owners of the coffeehouses, alleging the employers mismanaged finances, leading them to bounce paychecks, make “unlawful deductions” from workers’ pay for benefits the workers did not receive and to not pay the workers overtime.
Less than three weeks after being targeted in a $26 million lawsuit over a soured acquisition, celebrity investor Marcus Lemonis has countersued his erstwhile business partner, Chicago businessman and the founder of Bow Truss Coffee, Phil Tadros.
A Chicago federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit, brought by a woman against a debt collection company, ruling the woman could have suffered a “concrete” harm when the company allegedly violated the federal Telephone Consumers Protection Act, by repeatedly phoning her after she told them to stop.