Our commercial litigation attorneys are trial lawyers, who provide services to a wide variety of clients ranging from banks and other secured lenders to insurers to municipal corporations and to companies manufacturing goods or providing services. Over the past thirty years, we have been one of the leading firms in the Chicago area in number of civil jury cases tried to verdict. Litigation is over 50% of our firm’s practice.
Our attorneys are experienced in state and federal courts, administrative hearings and mediations. At the trial level, we have experience that includes handling injunctions, corporate and partnership dissolutions, oppression of minority shareholders’ interests, condemnations, foreclosures, replevins, attachments, supplemental proceedings, breaches of contract, title disputes, broker disputes, Uniform Commercial Code cases, business torts, bankruptcies, actions for relief from automatic stays, defense of preference motions and complaints, asset investigations, actions to preclude discharge or to prevent dischargeability of a particular debt, class actions, securities litigation, defending consumer fraud and common law fraud actions, and both the defense and prosecution of civil RICO cases. We also do ERISA, intellectual property, real estate, tax, trust and estate, insurance coverage, and lending litigation. Some examples of our breach of contract cases: supplier agreements, equipment agreements, managed care contracts, real estate development agreements, software consulting agreements, construction contracts, property management contracts, real estate purchase contracts, security guard contracts, and employment agreements.