Tomlinson & Shapiro is excited to announce that Carly Grant has joined the firm as Of Counsel effective January 2022. Carly’s practice includes a wide range of business services, focusing on forming entities, drafting contracts, creating policies, protecting...
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Tomlinson & Shapiro Wins Motion to Dismiss Tortious Interference and Deceptive Trade Practices Claims
It is easy for a company to claim to have the exclusive right to distribute products in certain territories; however, it is much more difficult to plead and prove such claims. Often, companies claim exclusive sales territories without a legal basis to do so in an...
Will the Non-Compete with my Independent Contractor be Enforceable and Should I Even Have One?
Clients often wonder whether they can restrict a consultant, independent sales representative, or other independent contractor from working for a competitor after the independent contractor agreement has terminated. In Illinois, if a company grants its employee access...
Tomlinson & Shapiro Wins Trial for Clients to Protect Ownership and Control of a Technology Company
When the documents addressing corporate governance and ownership are not clear, disputes inevitably follow. That is what happened to a successful technology company based in DuPage County. A high-level executive left for new opportunities and shortly after claimed he...
Tomlinson & Shapiro Wins Temporary Restraining Order Freezing Bank Accounts
Cyber security threats lurk in all aspects of modern business. It is important to have knowledgeable counsel when a problem develops. Recently, one of our clients had their email hacked in an attempt to misdirect hundreds of thousands of dollars of customer payments....
Tomlinson & Shapiro Wins Trial to Deny Bankruptcy Discharge and Protect Clients’ Claims
When individuals declare bankruptcy, their creditors are often left without meaningful recovery. That is not always the case when it is possible to argue that the debtors are not entitled to the protections of bankruptcy law. Following a bench trial in the United...
Tomlinson & Shapiro Wins FINRA Expungement Arbitration
Tomlinson & Shapiro attorneys Michael Tomlinson recently won a FINRA arbitration hearing under Rule 2080 of the FINRA Code of Arbitration. Several years ago, a complaint was lodged against the firm’s client, a broker who had never had any complaints filed against...
Tomlinson & Shapiro Wins Lawsuit over Control and Ownership of a Fifth Generation Family-Owned Manufacturer
Tomlinson & Shapiro attorneys Michael Tomlinson, and Michael Shapiro recently won a lawsuit on behalf of the owner of a manufacturing business that had been owned by his family for five generations. The case was litigated in circuit court in DuPage County....
The Firm Obtains Reversal of $2.7 Million Judgment in Federal Appeal
On August 24, 2015, in JMB Manufacturing, Inc. d/b/a Summit Forest Products Company v. Child Craft, LLC et al., the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a $2.7 million judgment against an individual client and a corporate client of the firm....