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 a prior post (http://paulporvaznik.com/tag/retaining-lien), I discussed the common law retaining lien, which allows an attorney to keep a client’s papers and property as security for the payment of past due fees. Another legal device at a lawyer’s disposal to encourage payment is the statutory attorneys’ lien, codified in Illinois at 770 ILCS 5/1. Grane …