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The firm obtained a judgment from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District
of Illinois determining that a debt exceeding $55,000,000 against a former Illinois attorney
was not dischargeable. That ruling was recently affirmed on appeal by the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The firm has successfully prosecuted successive appeals from adverse rulings of the Circuit
Court of Cook County, Illinois in a case brought on behalf of a family-owned business seeking
to exercise a right of first refusal contained in a commercial lease. The matter remains
pending in the trial court.
The firm obtained a protective order prohibiting discovery and a ruling in limine
on the appropriate standard of review in a contested ERISA matter pending in the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Luke has published an article on the Social Sciences Research Network
(www.ssrn.com)
regarding a case in which he represented a national pharmaceutical company in litigation
against Abbott Laboratories: The Demise of the "You Break It, You Bought It" Rule in the
Seventh Circuit: Lost Profit and Overhead Damages Under the UCC.
The firm defeated a motion to dismiss filed by a national insurance company in another ERISA
matter brought in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The
matter was subsequently settled by the entry of a consent decree providing for full payment to
the firm's client, plus attorneys' fees.
The firm successfully represented a shareholder in a closely-held Illinois corporation through
receivership proceedings in what amounted to a corporate divorce. As part of those proceedings,
the firm defeated another shareholder's attempts to access disability payments on behalf of the
corporate entity.
In October 2010, Teresa Frisbie accepted a position as the Director of the Dispute Resolution
Program with the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. She remains of counsel to the
firm.
In January 2011, the Firm won a motion to dismiss claims a construction company brought against
owners of a suburban housing development. The Firm was hired after the lawsuit had been pending
for almost five years. The trial court granted the Firm's request that all claims against the
Firm's clients be dismissed with prejudice on the ground that they were barred by the governing
statute of limitations. In so ruling, the court rejected the plaintiffs' argument that the
claims against the Firm's clients "related back" to other, previously-filed claims. Plaintiffs
sought damages in excess of $1,000,000.
