Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
Midwest Commercial Funding, LLC v. Kelly, 2022 IL App (1st) 210644 shows the harsh results that can flow from the failure to follow a statute’s service requirements to the letter. There, dueling creditors fought over song royalties paid to disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly. Heather Williams sued the singer for sexual abuse and obtained a …
Continue reading “R. Kelly’s Royalty Account Nabbed by Sex Assault Judgment Creditor”
Reversing a trial court’s dismissal of a law firm’s quasi-contract claims against a former client, the First District recently considered the enforceability of a contingency fee contract that was missing a material term. The plaintiff law firm in Seiden Law Group, P.C. v. Segal, 2021 IL App (1st) 200877 sued the defendant, an ex-client, for …
Continue reading “Missing Contingent-Fee Term Doesn’t Doom Law Firm’s Quantum Meruit Claim”
I recently litigated the enforceability of a contractual arbitration provision contained in an electrical subcontract for work on a high-end residential project in the Chicago suburbs. The subcontractor fighting arbitration argued that the clause, drafted by the general contractor, was so one-sided against it, that it was unconscionable under Illinois law. [Among other things, the …