Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
This is a guest post from Chad Main of Percipient, an e-discovery and legal technology company focused on managed document review. A recent opinion from the Illinois First District of Court of Appeal, Cronin & Company, LTD. v. Richie Capital Management, LLC, 2014 IL App. 131892-U (unreported), raises interesting questions about attorney liens, client files, …
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An ill-fated wind turbine project in Southeast Wyoming sets the unlikely stage for a court’s encyclopedic corporate liability history lesson. In Greenhunter Energy, Inc. v. Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc., 2014 WY 144, 337 P.3d 454 (Wyo. 2014), the Wyoming Supreme Court traces the evolution of the corporate form (and later, the equitable piercing the corporate …
In Williamson v. Ill-Eagle Enterprises, Ltd., 2015 WL 802250, a manufacturer of framed art and wall décor sued the New Jersey-based designer of those items and its corporate President (the “Guarantor”) for breach of contract and breach of a written guaranty, respectively. The guaranty contained a forum selection clause fixing Illinois as the site for …
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