Avoid Small Business Traps
August 12, 2025 18:48 pm
by Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC, DBA, July 31st, 2025 Nearly 40% of small business owners were...
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Employers Beware: GIPA Is Coming for You!
by Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC, DBA, March 21st, 2025 Joel Chupack warns of dire consequences...
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IF YOU HAVE TO LET SOMEONE GO, DO IT RIGHT: 3 EASY RULES.
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC When people get fired, employers get sued. Firings are the...
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Common Sense Is So Far Gone That It Will Never Come Back
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC Robert De Niro’s company, Canal Productions, recently lost a case...
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Badly Drafted Employment Agreements
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC We offer three similar cases in which the employer lost each...
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Caution: Employee Handbooks
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC If it has been a while since you last reviewed your employee...
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Wage-and-Hour compliance: Be a Winner, Not a Loser
Have you ever given the go-ahead to hourly employees to work through lunch so they could leave...
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Documenting employee performance: The 3 most common mistakes
With the recent changes in Illinois law regarding employees, we thought we would dust off a few...
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THE TIPSY FRUIT FLY: Things Are Not What They Seem
January 03, 2022 18:16 pm
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC In the prestigious journal of Science, a study found that when...
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Survey Said: Some Positive News for Business
Tom Stilp, JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC For those who have been around the block a few times, we’ve seen...
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Statistics That Might Surprise You
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June 20, 2019 15:22 pm
Thomas Stilp, JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC We represent and work with a number of manufacturing...
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Award of excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service Award awarded to Stilp Law
The United States District Court, in conjunction with the Federal Bar Association, Chicago, will...
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