Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog

A clinic across town conducts pre-employment physicals for your company. The clinic’s intake form asks routine medical questions, including a section on family medical history. Two years later a class action arrives, naming your company under a statute most Illinois employers had not heard of three years ago. The complaint says you required disclosure of genetic information b...

The complaint reads like an indictment of your marketing department. A national class. Allegations that a label, a website disclosure, or a price representation deceived consumers. A nationwide class period stretching back five years. A demand for restitution, actual damages, punitive damages, and a permanent injunction against your business practices. The Illinois Consumer F...

The complaint usually starts with a text message that looked perfectly ordinary on the way out the door. Your marketing team uploaded a customer list, the platform sent the campaign, and the response rates were strong. Months later a class action lands in the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of every recipient. The demand letter multiplies the number of texts by $500 p...

The resignation lands on a Friday and feels routine until Monday. Your top salesperson is gone, and so, it turns out, is the customer list, the pricing model, and the quarterly pipeline she pulled the week before she left. By the following week your best accounts are getting calls from her new employer, the one across town that competes with you for the same business, and the...

The summons rarely feels proportional to what happened. You left an honest review of a contractor. You warned a colleague about a vendor who had burned you. You answered a reporter’s question, or posted what you believed was true, or simply repeated what half the industry already knew. Now a process server is at the door and a complaint accuses you of defamation, demands a su...