Our commitment to providing our clients with first rate legal services which are carefully tailored to meet our clients’ specific and varying needs has yielded substantial and distinguished accomplishments, including:
- Recovered over 1,000,000 in a hotly contested wrongful death action in which our client was rendered a quadriplegic and ultimately died as a result of an automobile collision and have recovered millions more in compensation for physical injuries sustained in automobile collisions.
- Successfully defended claims for breach of a construction contract and fraud both at the trial and the appellate levels resulting in a published Illinois appellate court opinion which stands as seminal Illinois law on what is necessary to create a construction contract and requisite reasonable reliance to maintain a fraud claim in Siegel Development Co. v. Peak Construction. LLC, 2013 IL App. 111973, 993 N.E.2d 1041 (1st Dist. 2013).
- Achieved several of the largest confidential settlements in Illinois for victims of priest molestation.
- Effectively completed over 75,000,000 in business asset acquisitions and sales in a variety of industries, including telephone, restaurant, health care, and professional industries.
- Obtained sizable confidential settlement from a major insurance company on behalf of senior couple in litigation involving couple’s home becoming uninhabitable as a result of mold infestation which was featured for two days on television in an editorial on local Chicago Fox News.
- Negotiated and closed a series of complex transactions in which our client was able to avoid $18,000,000 in personally guaranteed debt without declaring bankruptcy.
- Obtained large confidential settlement from a Chicago hotel on behalf of a victim of rape.
- Recovered over 1,000,000 for a condominium association in litigation against developer for litany of construction defects.
- Successfully litigated students’ civil rights action against a public high school who were victims of school administered punishment through electric shock which was featured on the nationally televised news program Dateline NBC.
- Recovered and defended millions of dollars of claims for personal injuries based on premises liability.
- Collected over $700,000 on behalf of a pharmaceutical sales woman who was the victim of sexual harassment and who was wrongfully terminated, as well as successfully prosecuted and defended numerous other sexual harassment and discrimination claims.