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Judgment Creditor Can Recover Attorneys’ Fees Spent Pursuing Successful Veil Piercing Suit Versus Corporate Officers

Q:           Can a judgment creditor recover attorneys’ fees incurred in both its post-judgment discovery efforts after a default judgment against a defunct corporation and a subsequent piercing the corporate veil action to enforce the prior judgment where the contract with the defunct entity contains an attorneys’ fees provision? A:            Yes. That’s the salient and nuanced holding from Steiner Electric …

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Collecting Post-Judgment Attorneys’ Fees in Illinois

Collecting a judgment against sophisticated corporate and individual debtors can be a time-consuming and futile exercise. Post-judgment enforcement proceedings can drag on for months (sometimes years), often generating astronomical attorneys’ fees and expenses. Tobias v. Lake Forest Partners, LLC, 402 Ill.App.3d 484 (1st Dist. 2010) addresses some tricky questions involving competing money judgment priority and …

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