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06/30/2023

Happy 4th of July weekend!

08/25/2021

Take note of a major recent development in Illinois noncompete law:

Check out my post on the new Illinois anti-noncompete / nonsolicit law:...

05/21/2020

Attention lawyer and litigant friends, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an order yesterday allowing each local circuit court to decide when and how to reopen its doors for in-person trials and hearings. The Court urged the lower courts to do so responsibly, and to still use remote hearings as frequently as possible.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ 24 chief judges can decide when to reopen courthouses across the state to in-person proceedings, the state Supreme Court ordered Wednesday.

06/21/2019

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/illinois-appellate-court-upholds-dismissal-draconian-claims-scott/

On June 17th in an unpublished decision, the Illinois Second District Appellate Court affirmed DuPage County Judge Bonnie Wheaton's early dismissal of a noncompete case, agreeing with the veteran trial judge that the noncompete's restrictions on the former employee were "Draconian." Mazzetta Co.

04/29/2019

Show of hands, who here likes Jimmy John’s? Me too. Especially the bread.

04/03/2019

As shown again last week, if you work in Illinois and signed or had an employee sign a noncompete, it probably won't be enforced in state court unless you or s/he worked at least two years for the company after signing it, or got special incentives or compensation in return. That's what the Appellat

01/06/2019

Our clients Dana and Ali Denizman of George Street Pub in Chicago hosting the Commish pregame. Go Bears!

12/24/2018

From the Schaefers Law Group, a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best in 2019.

10/04/2018

On October 3rd, the 7th Circuit affirmed the Tax Court's $525 million back-tax and penalty ruling against Exelon, finding that Exelon's 1999-2001 "sale and leaseback" transactions for municipal power plants did not qualify as tax-deferring "like kind exchanges" under Section 1031 of the Internal Rev

10/03/2018

Effective September 28th, the Illinois Supreme Court made it easier to admit business, investigative, and electronic records as substantive evidence. But one change may make admitting 'ancient' records a tad more difficult.

10/02/2018

On October 1st, the Seventh Circuit rejected the appeal of a Canadian plastics distributor, ruling that its due-diligence NDA with a 3D printing developer plainly allowed the 3D company to patent the distributor's "G-Polymer" material, even if that reading of the NDA defeated its very purpose. Soaru