Interesting Cases

  Congratulations to our dedicated attorneys, Tom Patterson and Elise Yu! They recently achieved another significant victory in a shareholder dispute case involving a departing shareholder-employee and a company. This successful outcome underscores our firm’s commitment to protecting the interests of our clients. Understanding the Shareholder Dispute Case Our client

Cook County ruling limits excessive attorney compensation under Rule 1.5. Learn how public policy safeguards client rights in contingency fee cases

Understanding Legal Malpractice Claims and the Statute of Limitations in Illinois In a significant ruling on October 3, 2022, Patterson Law Firm achieved a crucial victory, for the second time, by successfully defeating defendants’ efforts to dismiss a legal malpractice case. The core of the defendants’ argument was that the

Patterson Law Firm announces another legal malpractice win in Illinois, successfully defeating dismissal efforts related to complex statute of limitations and repose arguments.

Arbitration clauses are sometimes included in contracts and require disputes between the parties to be resolved through arbitration instead of filing a lawsuit. The enforceability of arbitration provisions is an issue that often arises when parties seek to amend contracts which contain arbitration provisions. Arbitration provisions appear in a wide

Time and time again we hear from medical residents who thought they were doing fine in their program, had been told they passed all their rotations, just to find out when they got the contract for the next residency year that they have not been promoted to the next year.

On behalf of RevoLaze, LLC, Patterson Law Firm won a $32,262,488.50 legal malpractice jury verdict against attorney Mark Hogge and Dentons. This is a win for RevoLaze against a firm that claims to be largest law firm in the world. The trial took place in Cleveland, Ohio and lasted three

Three months before the trial, a New York law firm represented a guarantor being sued for $8 million. The case was linked to the largest mixed-use real estate development project in the world. The lawyer who hired us said that “the case was an unmitigated disaster and that they needed

Michael Haeberle and Jack Battaglia represented a plaintiff in a dispute over loans given for gambling during a weekend trip to Las Vegas. The plaintiff and the defendant were close friends, and they shared an interest in gambling, which they often did together. During these outings, the defendant often asked

The Magic of New Technology. In federal court, we represented a small insurance brokerage company backed by Lloyds of London that was sued by a large insurance company represented by a large law firm. The large company claimed that our client, the brokerage company, had failed to enact rate increases

A general partner in a real estate partnership sought our help. His limited partners obtained a restraining order to temporarily stop the sale of partnership condominiums to raise funds to pay $2.5 million in partnership debts, some of which were owed to the general partner. The limited partners then sought

Ten intrepid homeowners in a residential cooperative complained about their board of directors. The board had discriminated against them. One of our clients came home to find an ax in his back door with the words “person must die” written in red paint. In addition, some of the board’s conduct

In one case, we were asked to represent a disabled person injured by the negligence of a caregiver. The company that gave the care was broke, but it had insurance. The insurance company denied coverage arguing that the company gave it a tardy claim notice. Did the company care whether