Jones Day | USA | 1 Oct 2019
Ten years ago, in an effort to create greater predictability for patent litigation in the Northern District of Illinois, the District enacted Local…
Mayer Brown | USA | 27 Dec 2018
A manufacturing company was recently served with a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois…
K&L Gates LLP | USA | 22 Jun 2017
A three-year pilot project studying “whether requiring parties in civil cases to respond to a series of standard discovery requests before undertaking…
Mintz | USA | 30 May 2017
A recent decision in the Northern District of Illinois gave life to the inevitable disclosure doctrine under the Defend Trade Secrets Act. Inevitable…
Holland & Knight LLP | USA | 29 Jun 2016
Judge Johnston denied defendants’ motion to compel the deposition of Plaintiff’s prior trademark prosecution counsel. Citing the “goose-and-gander”…
Bryant Legal Group PC | USA | 17 May 2016
Zagorski v. Allstate Insurance Company, 2016 IL App (5th) 140056 (May 16, 2016) St. Clair Co. (CATES) Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated…
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP | USA | 4 May 2016
The defendant filed a motion to compel, seeking a wide array of discovery against Plaintiffs Dyson, Inc. and Dyson Limited (collectively…
Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 25 Nov 2015
In EEOC v. DolGenCorp, LLC d/b/a Dollar General, No. 13-CV-4307 (N.D. Ill.), a case we blogged about previously here, Judge Andrea Wood of the U.S…
Barnes & Thornburg LLP | USA | 19 May 2015
Many clients believe they absolutely control the disclosure or confidentiality of information they provide to their accountants. That may not be true…
Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 12 May 2015
In EEOC v. DolGenCorp, LLC d/b/a Dollar General, No. 13-CV-4307 (N.D. Ill. May 5, 2015), Judge Andrea R. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the…