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Judge: Pension boards can't claim chunk of city of Harvey's COVID federal relief money

By Jonathan Bilyk | Monday, Jun 28, 2021 @ 5:47pm

A Cook County judge has ruled the money the city of Harvey is expected to receive from the federal government's billions in COVID relief for state and local governments is off limits to pension boards for the city's firefighters and police officers
Appeals panel: Debt collector needed to bring malpractice claim vs lawyer who aided former business partners at first suspicion of harm

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Oct 29, 2015 @ 3:14pm

A state appeals panel has found a businessman involved in a dispute with business partners over the fate of an Evanston debt collection company didn’t move fast enough to bring a legal malpractice claim against Chicago law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman for allegedly helping those partners freeze him out of the company’s management and then working to torpedo the venture by forming a new company specifically to compete against the first venture.