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The 2023 Top Managing Partners list is comprised of managing partners who have contributed to revenue growth, nurtured and retained their talent base, kept their firms active in their communities and driven their firms to achieve important milestones. Kreamer is an experienced trial attorney, trying a wide variety of commercial, construction, financial services, insurance and product liability ca…

Ten attorneys from Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms, have been named to the 2023 list of “Super Lawyers” by Michigan Super Lawyers magazine. Receiving special recognition by the magazine this year with inclusion among the state’s top 50 female lawyers are D. Jennifer Andreou and Mary Massaron. Andreou joins the top 50 list of attorneys practicing in the…

Cornwalls has been working with Jadig Finance for over 10 years. Adam Gringlas, Managing Director of Jadig Finance, sat down with Nick Amore, Partner, who acts as their legal advisor on all banking and finance matters, to find out more about this important partnership and to give some context to their stakeholders. Describe your work with Jadig. Nick: We began working with Jadig Finance more than …

Sills Cummis’ Grace Byrd discusses New Jersey’s new so-called “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights.” As seen in this article, “Grace Byrd … described this as a ‘groundbreaking’ overhaul in New Jersey — and nationwide, as few similar examples exist of these changes in compensation, benefits and protections for temporary workers. From conversations Byrd is having from the management-side labor and em…

On August 11, 2018, a sudden and significant burst of rain caused several accidents on I-81 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The accident at issue involved a chain reaction collision involving five vehicles. A Western Express tractor-trailer was the last vehicle in the collision series to rear-end Plaintiff’s work van. Plaintiff suffered serious injuries, including a spinal fracture and an uncontes…

Sills Cummis & Gross Product Liability Practice Group Chair and Litigation Department Co-Chair Beth S. Rose was selected for inclusion in Benchmark Litigation’s* 2023 “Top 250 Women in Litigation” list, published by Delinian Limited. This is the 10th consecutive year Ms. Rose has received this honor. According to the publisher, “The extensive research process used in the creation of Benchmark…

Baker Sterchi recently achieved a favorable result for our engineering design professional client in a million-dollar-plus property damage dispute pending in Greene County, Missouri. The case involved an insurance company plaintiff seeking to hold our client accountable for damages resulting from a brick façade detachment incident at a luxury apartment complex. This incident caused extensive damag…

Baker Sterchi recently achieved a favorable result for their engineering design professional client in a million-dollar-plus property damage dispute pending in Greene County, Missouri. The case involved an insurance company plaintiff seeking to hold their client accountable for damages resulting from a brick façade detachment incident at a luxury apartment complex. This incident caused extensive d…

Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms, recently selected three diverse law school students to receive $2,500 diversity scholarships based on their submissions to the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) essay program. In the face of strong competition and a rigorous selection process, Jasmine Bouche, Zarghoona Sakhi and Frances Silney-Bah were sele…

In a major victory for defendants related to the Illinois Biometric Information Act (BIPA) U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois has vacated a $228 million damages award in Richard Rogers v. BNSF Railway Co., the first case tried to a verdict under the Illinois BIPA.  Judge Kennelly ordered a new jury trial limited to the question of damages. (Click to down…