Rihanna – S&M by jimihubabua NPR reports on a very interesting recently filed law suit regarding allegations that the pop singer Rhianna’s latest video crosses the line an plagiarizes the photo images of David LaChapelle and thus violates copyright law. The story states: Fashion photographer David LaChapelle is known for…
Lubin Austermuehle’s Chicago business trial lawyers have more than two and half decades of experience helping business clients on unraveling complex business fraud and breach of fiduciary duty cases. Our Chicago business law attorneys work with skilled forensic accountants and certified fraud examiners to help recover monies missappropriated from our…
Our Illinois covenant not to compete attorneys were interested to see a ruling in a long-running contract dispute between three Madison County doctors. The Fifth District Court of Appeals has given a green light to a lawsuit over a covenant not to compete. The Madison St. Clair Record reported…
A federal court in Kansas denied Bank of America motion to dismiss an unpaid overtime lawsuit brought by the Bank’s call center employees. The call center employees claim Bank of America forced them to work without pay during meal breaks and before and after their regular hours due to…
The U.S. District Court for Minnesota is hearing a test case for how restrictive covenants are affected by social media. Our Chicago restrictive covenant litigation lawyers were extremely interested to read about TEKSystems, Inc. v. Hammernick in a June 15 ComputerWorld article. According to the article, information technology staffing…
Attorney Mark Lanier on the legal challenges facing the oil company and automaker. Our Naperville, Illinois consumer rights private law firm handles individual and class action predatory lending, unfair debt collection, lemon law and other consumer fraud cases that government agencies and public interest law firms such as the Illinois…
Judge Sues After Surgical Sponge Was Left In Him This article in the Miami Herald is worth reading at the above link. The article reports: A Belle Glade judge plans to sue two radiologists and a surgeon after a foot long sponge that was left in him after surgery…
Super Lawyers named Chicago and Oak Brook business trial attorney Peter Lubin a Super Lawyer for 2011 in the Categories of Class Action, Business Litigation and Consumer Rights Litigation. Lubin Austermuehle’s Oak Brook and Chicago business law attorneys have over a quarter of a century of experience in litigating complex…
NPR reports: Investors who entrusted their money to Bernard Madoff and actually made money may be in for some unwelcome news. According to the Wall Street Journal, the man in charge of recovering money for Madoff’s victims is preparing to file a wave of new lawsuits aimed at wresting money…
NPR reported a few years ago: New rules take effect that help companies decide how many e-mails and other digital items they have to keep in case someone sues them and demands the documents be brought to court. Even small companies can generate millions of digital documents in a very…