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Lessons from an errant email.
January 29th, 2013
First, some background. My dad hated squirrels. It wasn’t simple dislike. It wasn’t contempt. No, this was an irrational, unadulterated, white-hot hatred. He took it very, very personally when he saw one of the furry little critters running along a large cedar fence we had in the backyard. So much so that eventually a fully loaded BB rifle took up…
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Sometimes, the case has to be tried.
November 16th, 2012
When I evaluate personal injury cases, my initial assessment involves two primary questions: 1) is there a serious injury and 2) can I prove liability against the defendants. I would like to say that every injury case sitting in my file cabinets is a million dollar case. But that isn’t the case. Some of my files feature serious injuries[sadly sometimes i…
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DON'T SEE THAT EVERYDAY...
November 10th, 2009
This doesn’t happen in Cook County very often. I had a hearing in a Courtroom with a judge who is universally well-regarded. This particular judge is a seasoned, thoughtful, conscientious man who understands the stress that lawyers occasionally have to endure. The case in question is a mass tort sort of thing. Let’s leave it at that. In other words…
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WHEN DOGS ATTACK - A LOOK AT THE ILLINOIS ANIMAL CONTROL ACT
August 26th, 2008
Check out the August issue of the Illinois Bar Journal for a good article by April Pruitt-Summers on the Illinois Animal Control Act, 510 ILCS 5/1 et. seq. The first thing that caught my eye was the link to a study conducted by pediatrician Jeffrey Sacks M.D. and reported in PEDIATRICS[Vol. 97, No. 6, ppss. 891-95]. The link contains some pretty sobering stati…
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