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Accused of Freezing Out a Minority Owner? How Illinois Law Defends the Majority in a Shareholder Oppression Case
The certified letter arrives on a Tuesday, and it is written to sound like a verdict. Your minority shareholder, the one who stopped coming to work two years ago but never stopped cashing distributions, now says you have frozen him…
Sued Under BIPA? After the 2024 Amendment, the Demand Letter’s Damages Math No Longer Adds Up
The demand letter usually starts with a fingerprint. Your employees clock in and out on a biometric time clock, the way millions of workers do, and a plaintiff’s lawyer has noticed. The complaint says the company collected those fingerprints without…
Served With a Defamation Cease-and-Desist? Why Illinois Law and the First Amendment Often Protect What You Said
The cease-and-desist letter gives you ten days. You wrote a review, or warned a customer, or told an unflattering truth about a former vendor in a way that cost him a sale, and now his lawyer calls it defamation. The…
GIPA Is the New BIPA, and the Damages Are Higher: How Illinois Employers Defend the Genetic Information Privacy Act Wave
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…
The Illinois Consumer Fraud Act Class Action You Were Just Served: Five Defenses That Decide Whether the Class Ever Gets Certified
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,…
Sued Under the TCPA in 2026? The Three Decisions That Have Quietly Rewritten the Defense Playbook
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…
When a Key Employee Walks Out With Your Customers: Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and the Duty of Loyalty in Illinois
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…
Sued for Defamation in Illinois? The Defenses That Can End the Case Before It Gains Momentum
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…
Leaving Money on the Service Drive: How Illinois Dealers Get Paid Retail for Warranty Parts and Labor
The warranty rate has been the same for so long that nobody in the store questions it anymore. The service department books warranty labor at a number the factory set years ago, posts parts at the manufacturer’s cost-plus formula, and…