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Super Lawyers® has selected seven RD attorneys to the 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers® list, and three firm attorneys have been honored as 2024 Illinois Rising Stars. All attorney rankings are based on peer nominations, evaluations, and independent research. Due to a rigorous selection process, only 5% of all practicing lawyers are selected to the Super… Read more »
Effective January 1, 2024, a new federal law called the Corporate Transparency Act (the Transparency Act) will likely impact your company. This brand-new law is still evolving. The rules and regulations of reporting under the Transparency Act are not yet finalized and are still being changed and modified at this late date. While there is… Read more »
Shareholder Julia Jensen Smolka will be a speaker for the Advocates Society on the topic “Collections for the Non-Collection Attorney” hosted by the Advocates Society on January 18. Julia will discuss the debt collection and bankruptcy process for the non-collection attorney including the steps creditors can take to collect on judgements and basics of bankruptcy… Read more »
Shareholder Justin L. Weisberg is a co-presenter for the ISBA Single-Family Residential Construction: The Owner’s Perspective – Parts 1 & 2 on January 17 and 24. The two-part online program will provide an overview of the various construction law issues from the owner’s perspective, which will help attorneys better protect clients from construction and payment… Read more »
Shareholder Eric G. Patt is a general editor and author for “Chapter 9: Representing a Home-Rule Municipality” published by IICLE. This chapter is included in the IICLE 2024 Edition Municipal Law: Contracts, Litigation, and Home Rule.
Thomas J. Cassady and Riccardo A. DiMonte won two decisions of the appellate court for firm clients in connection with collection matters. For the first decision, the Circuit Court terminated citations issued to third-party citation respondents regarding a judgment now due in the amount of $12 million, because the plaintiff/creditor allegedly violated the “six-month automatic… Read more »
Riccardo A. Di Monte and Dominic G. Erbacci successfully obtained a judgment in favor of their landowner clients against the Village of Mt. Prospect. The judgment was related to a lawsuit involving quiet title. The term “quiet title” is used when settling an ownership dispute. The landowners contested the Village’s claim for adverse possession of the… Read more »
Attorneys Dominic G. Erbacci and Julia Jensen Smolka successfully obtained a summary judgment in favor of their graphic designer client who was alleged to have infringed upon another’s trademark. The alleged trademark holder filed suit against the graphic designer and sought more than $1,700,000 in alleged damages. Following the close of discovery, the graphic designer… Read more »
Shareholder R. Kymn Harp was a presenter on November 17 for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Real Estate Law Update 2023 discussing “Development Agreements: How Big Projects Get Built”. The presentation provided insight into how to structure real estate development projects through the use of two different types of development agreements. One, community development agreements… Read more »
RD Quarterly- 2023 Issue 2 Successfully Selling a Business Federal Estate & Gift Tax Basic Exclusions Will Be Lowered The New and Improved Notary Public Law – Robbins DiMonte, Ltd.