News from November 2018
CLARK HILL PLC: Clark Hill Member Chad Poznansky Named to Christopher House Board of Directors
Clark Hill Member Chad Poznansky has been selected to join the Board of Directors of Christopher House for a 3-year term effective immediately.
CLARK HILL PLC: Clark Hill Attorney Mark J. Steger Recognized by the 17th Annual M&A Advisor Awards
Clark Hill has been recently recognized by the 17th Annual M&A Advisor Awards in the category of Industrials Deal of The Year ($50MM-$100MM) for the Acquisition of Wellman Dynamics Corporation by TCTM Financial, of which Mark J.
TRESSLER LLP: Christine Walczak Joins Tressler’s Local Government Practice Group
Tressler LLP is proud to welcome Christine Walczak as a new associate in our Chicago office.
BARNES & THORNBURG LLP: Barnes & Thornburg elects new partners for 2019
Barnes & Thornburg has elected 13 attorneys as partners, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
Exotic dancers sue Ocean’s Gentleman’s Club for allegedly unpaid wages, classifying them as contractors
Female exotic dancers are suing a Bedford Park nightclub where they performed, alleging the Ocean’s Gentleman’s Club improperly classified them as independent contractors and illegally withheld wages and tips.
BARNES & THORNBURG LLP: Barnes & Thornburg welcomes New Attorneys in Chicago and Los Angeles
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added new corporate and intellectual property attorneys to its Chicago and Los Angeles offices.
CLARK HILL PLC: Clark Hill Adds Prominent Political Law Attorney John G. Fogarty, Jr. as Senior Counsel in Chicago
Clark Hill PLC announced the addition of John G. Fogarty, Jr. to the firm as Senior Counsel in its Chicago office, where he is a member of the Government and Public Affairs Practice Group.
GREENBERG & TRAURIG: Tiffany S. Fordyce and Lorraine M. Tyson Named Among Chicago’s Notable Minority Lawyers
Tiffany S. Fordyce and Lorraine M. Tyson, shareholders in the Chicago office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, have been recognized on Crain’s Chicago Business’s 2018 Notable Minority Lawyers list.
CLARK HILL PLC: Scott Cruz named to Crain's Chicago's Notable Minority Lawyers for 2018
Clark Hill PLC issued the following announcement on Nov. 19.Clark Hill's Scott Cruz has been named to Crain's Chicago's Notable Minority Lawyers for 2018.
Man sues Hearts Partnership club after shot in chest at nightclub
A patron shot at a Chicago nightclub alleges the business did not have any trained security on the premises.
Alexian Brothers Medical Center, doctors named in wrongful death suit over man's sarcoma-related death
The son of a deceased Cook County man is seeking damages from two physicians and a health care center over the treatment of his father's cancer.
Ultra Foods employee alleges pallet jack caused foot injuries
A Calumet Park resident alleges she was injured when a pallet jack was lowered onto her foot.
Oak Park firefighters union: Village's rules to evaluate 'catastrophic injury' benefit claims unconstitutional
An attempt by the village of Oak Park to establish a new way to evaluate whether its firefighters claiming to have been "catastrophically injured" in the line of duty should receive retirement health insurance benefits, has drawn a legal challenge from the union representing its firefighters, who say the village’s ordinance establishing the new rules violates Illinois state law and the firefighter’s rights as public employees under the state constitution.
Federal appeals judges: 'Politics in politics' did not violate rights of GOP state senator who challenged Rauner
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals determined Illinois Senate Republican leaders didn’t violate a caucus member’s rights by stripping him of duties after he mounted a third-party gubernatorial challenge.
House override spikes Court of Claims cap from $100,000 to $2 million
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a bill that raised the award cap from $100,000 to $2 million for tort cases against the state that are litigated in the Illinois Court of Claims has been overridden.
Federal judge OKs addition of local store employee to lawsuit vs Home Depot over saw blade accident
A man injured by a circular saw blade in an alleged accident during a home improvement project has won the right to take his lawsuit against retailer Home Depot back to Cook County court after a federal judge cut up Home Depot's attempt to stop the plaintiff from adding one of its local store employees as a defendant, ending the retailer's bid to keep the matter in federal court.
City fights back vs effort to block Obama Center, says plan legally sound, will benefit Jackson Park
The city of Chicago is defending its plan to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, against a court challenge, saying the group behind the challenge is on soggy legal ground in seeking an injunction by contending the park was once under Lake Michigan and so is protected from development.
Three lawyers disbarred, nine more suspended in latest round of IL Supreme Court attorney discipline
The Illinois Supreme Court has disbarred three lawyers, including a criminal defense attorney sentenced to 30 months in prison for not paying nearly $1 million in federal taxes, and suspended nine others, including a former McHenry County prosecutor convicted of stealing more than $21,000 from the law firm that employed her.
Symphony at Midway resident sues for injuries allegedly from fall while in center's care
A resident of a Chicago long-term nursing care facility alleges the facility failed to protect him from a fall that caused multiple fractures.
Canadian National/Illinois Central employee files suit over accident involving backhoe
A Kentucky man injured while operating a backhoe alleges his employer failed to adequately train him to operate it.