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As a business owner, limited liability should be one of your primary concerns. With limited liability, an owner’s personal assets are safe from the suits against the business entity. The advantage of limited liability is a clear reduction of risk on the part of an owner or shareholder. Historically, limited liability was available only in the corporate form. Along with limited liability, the corporate form also brought the oft dreaded prospect of double taxation—the imposition of tax once at ...

In Metrobank v. Cannatello, 2012 IL App (1^st) 110529 (January 9, 2012), the First District Appellate Court adopted a definitive standard for “personal service” in foreclosure cases.  Section 5/15-1508(e)[1] of the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law (“IMFL”) provides that a personal deficiency judgment may be entered for any balance of money that may be found due to the plaintiff, over and above the proceeds of the judicial sale, only in cases where there was personal service on the persons ...

Section 1983 action based upon a series of police encounters between the Ramirez family and City of Chicago police officers.  Specifically, the complaint alleged that the multiple interactions over a three year period of time between Plaintiffs and officers assigned to the 8^th District, Area One Detective Division and the Special Operations Section were a result of a conspiracy by the officers to retaliate against Plaintiffs through numerous incidents of false arrest, unreasonable searches of their property, vehicles and persons, ...

The National Labor Relations Board’s recent efforts to increase awareness of protected concerted activity raise the potential threat of non-union employees being afforded union protections under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act.

On June 18, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) launched a new website designed to increase public awareness of the protections afforded to concerted activities regardless of whether a union exists.  Under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, the right allows for nonunionized employees ...