CHICAGO CASINO: DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC Illinois is broke. Billions in pension obligations are crushing...
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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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Corporation May Not Protect You From Liability
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC The Illinois Appellate Court in Buckley vs. Abuzir, 2014 IL App...
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How Cases Get Resolved – It Is Not Always What You Think
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC Generally, people think there are two ways cases get resolved...
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Can one business sue another for making statements about the law in a contract?
_____________________________ Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC Ordinarily, the answer has been...
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Commercial Leases and Damages
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC Landlords must take reasonable steps to reduce losses, even when...
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White Castle May Be on Hook for over $17 Billion as Employer in Illinois
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC In our article last month about Wage and Hour Compliance (In the...
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Last Dance: Bankruptcy
_____________________________ Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC “Auto industry frets over possible...
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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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Machiavelli and Breach of Contracts
Tom Stilp JD, MBA/MM, LLM, MSC We are doing a study at the University of Florida as to the...
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The UCC and the “sUCCess” of Sears, Walmart and Amazon
Following the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, Sears offered the public the “Book of Bargains”...
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