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On March 25, 2026, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, clarifying the boundaries of contributory copyright infringement liability. Lower courts have already applied the Cox standards in other contexts....
Tomlinson & Shapiro is excited to announce that Meaghan Fuhrman joined the firm in late 2025. Meaghan advises businesses on employment matters, contracts, trademarks, and corporate issues. After working closely with business leadership teams throughout her career,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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 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....