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DiVito Authors Part Three of Special Five-Part Series in Illinois Bar Journal
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein partner Gino L. DiVito authored an article featured in the December 2023 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal. Gino’s article is titled “What I Learned From Teaching Trial Advocacy: The Direct Examination,” and is the third part of his...
DiVito Authors Part Two of Special Five-Part Series in Illinois Bar Journal
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein partner Gino L. DiVito authored an article featured in the November 2023 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal. Gino’s article is titled “What I Learned From Teaching Trial Advocacy: The Essential Elements of Persuasion: What To Do and How and...
Haussmann and Cooper Present CBA Seminar
TDR is pleased to announce that partners Brian C. Haussmann and Kyle A. Cooper will be presenting a Chicago Bar Association seminar on November 14, 2023. The presentation, “Law Firm Breakups: What Lawyers Need to Know to Protect Themselves and Their Clients,” offers...
7th Circuit Issues Opinion in Case Involving Illinois Assault Weapons Ban
TDR is pro bono counsel for March For Our Lives Foundation (“MFOL”) as amicus curiae in the matter Bevis, et al. v. City of Naperville, et al., No. 23-1353 (7th Cir.). On Friday, November 3, 2023, the Seventh Circuit in Bevis addressed for the first time the...
Hudson Installed as President of the Federal Bar Association’s Chicago Chapter
TDR is proud to announce that partner Timothy A. Hudson has been installed as the President of the Federal Bar Association’s Chicago chapter. As President, Tim will lead one of the FBA’s largest and most active chapters whose members include both lawyers and federal...
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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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