An in-depth investigation at the outset of an assignment always pays off, and Howard Trafman and Steve Schuetz certainly demonstrated this in a recent multi-party product liability case in Cook County, Illinois. Plaintiff was allegedly injured after the lift machine he was using at work to pick products from store […]

Persistence pays, and making counsel keep their promises does, too.  Partner Kate Crouch and senior counsel Steve Schuetz recently secured dismissal with prejudice of a Cook County action alleging negligence against a mechanical contractor following a degloving incident at Plaintiff’s workplace.  LPP conducted a quick but thorough investigation of the […]

Howard Trafman: Federal court settlement. Morales v. Cidan Machinery, Inc. December 2021. 

David Osborne and Joe Postel successfully concluded a declaratory judgment action by prevailing in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Netherlands Ins. Company v. Phusion Projects, Inc., 737 F.3d 1174 (7th Cir. 2013). The insured manufactured alcoholic energy drinks, allegedly marketed to minors, and was sued in several wrongful […]

Joe Postel: Kalis v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., 357 Ill. App. 3d 172 (1st Dist. 2005)