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TDR Wins Motion to Strike Class Allegations
On June 25, 2025, the Circuit Court of Cook County granted our client's motion and struck the plaintiff's class allegations from his complaint. The plaintiff was an unhappy would-be customer of our client, a national auto dealership. He filed a lawsuit and a motion...
Kyle Cooper Named One of 40 Attorneys Under Forty to Watch
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein is proud to announce that partner Kyle A. Cooper has been named one of the top 40 under forty Illinois attorneys to watch by Law Bulletin Media. More than 1,500 attorneys were nominated for the award. According to Law Bulletin Media,...
New Associate Joins TDR
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein is pleased to announce that Kaitlyn N. Kloss recently joined the firm as an associate. Kaitlyn’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and business disputes. She has represented clients on both sides of litigation across a wide...
Fitzgerald Appointed Vice Chair of the Amicus Committee for the Illinois Defense Counsel
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein is pleased to announce that partner John M. Fitzgerald has been appointed to serve as Vice Chair of the Amicus Committee for the Illinois Defense Counsel during the 2025-2026 bar year. The ICD is the premier association of attorneys in...
Grinde Authors Article in Illinois Bar Journal
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein associate Jeffrey L. Grinde, Jr. authored an article featured in the June 2025 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal. Grinde’s article is titled “Too Many Books, Too Little Time,” and discusses three books that young attorneys should read and...
Latest Articles
Illinois Supreme Court Holds that Collateral Source Rule Does Not Apply in Pure Economic Loss Tort Cases
Plaintiffs asserting purely economic losses in tort cases already face a significant hurdle in Illinois: the well-established economic loss rule, otherwise known as the Moorman doctrine. But those plaintiffs now face an additional challenge, because in Lewis v. Lead...
“Used with a View to Profit”–An Interesting Statutory Phrase and a Property Tax Dispute
In University of Chicago v. Department of Revenue, 2020 IL App (1st) 191195 (opinion issued May 15, 2020), the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court faced a unique property tax dispute that required the interpretation of a curious phrase in section 15-35 of...
Illinois Appellate Court Publishes Analysis on a Statutory Fee-Shifting Provision
Recently, the Illinois Appellate Court published its 2019 decision in Lopez v. Rendered Servs., Inc., 2019 IL App (1st) 181869. Lopez serves as a great refresher on the American Rule regarding attorney fees and statutory fee-shifting provisions in Illinois.In Lopez,...
Seventh Circuit Issues Stern Warning to Violators of Telemarketing Statutes
The Seventh Circuit's recent decision in United States v. DISH Network LLC, 954 F.3d 970 (7th Cir. 2020), comes with a stern warning to companies that violate state and federal telemarketing statutes: "Someone whose maximum penalty reaches the mesosphere only...
Crim v. Dietrich: Focus on the Necessity for a Posttrial Motion in a Civil Jury Trial and the Effect of Not Filing Such a Motion
In the medical malpractice case of Crim v. Dietrich, 2020 IL 124318 (issued on April 2, 2020), plaintiffs, the mother and father of the injured newborn baby, alleged that defendant, the doctor who delivered the baby: (1) failed to obtain the mother's informed consent...
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