Rockford, IL
Litigation Lawyer at Rockford, IL
Practice Areas: Litigation, Trademark Infringement ... +6 more
OUTCOME: After trying a week-long wrongful death jury trial with his partner, Jim Devine, the jury exonerated the firm’s client of any wrongdoing, despite plaintiff’s request for a $12,500,000 award from the jury.
Wrongful death case against police who engaged in high speed pursuit, wherein fleeing suspects struck and killed a young lawyer.
OUTCOME: Summary Judgment for my client.
Wrongful death case, in which the Court held that my client owed no duty to prevent the unforeseeable electrocutions of decedents, and that the client was otherwise immune from liability due to the exc ... lusive remedy provisions of the Worker’s Compensation Act, 820 ILCS 305/5(a).
OUTCOME: Second chaired a jury trial with my partner, John Holevas, which ultimately exonerated the firm’s client of any wrongdoing, despite plaintiff’s request of over $4 million in damages.
A “Wrongful Tree cutting Act” case under 17 ILCS 185/1, et seq.
OUTCOME: Summary Judgment for my client.
Federal breach of contract / promissory estoppel case, in which my client, a national transportation company, was held to be free of any liability despite a claim for $1,700,000 in damages.
OUTCOME: Successfully recovered large sum in a civil forfeiture case for my clients, who bred and cared for Rita Crundwell's horses, which the US government seized to auction off in an effort to recoup some of the $53 million she stole from the city.
Federal civil forfeiture case representing Texas veterinarians and ranchers in a federal civil forfeiture case under 18 USC § 981(a)(1)(c), relating to Rita Crundwell’s embezzlement of $53 million from ... the City of Dixon, and the clients’ liens on Crundwell’s Texas horses, which were seized by the United States. See United States v. Have Faith in Money (N.D. Ill. 2012).