Lauraann Wood

An email stating "Yikes ... no" in response to outside counsel's inquiry regarding a commercial bakery's biometric data collection practices proves the business and a logistics company misrepresented material facts while seeking insurance that could have covered an underlying privacy dispute, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

Chicago injury firm Clifford Law Offices PC is suing a former client in Illinois state court for allegedly manipulating a partner's 12-year-old email to try extorting $1.3 million from the firm.

7th Circ. Rejects Ex-Cushman GC's Defamation Revival Bid

Cushman & Wakefield's former general counsel cannot pursue an Illinois defamation claim over a Law.com article and subsequent revision he claims improperly linked his departure to subpoena deadline mismanagement in a Trump Organization property tax probe, the Seventh Circuit said Tuesday.

Boeing should pay substantial damages to the family of a former United Nations engineer who had a "magnetism" that spread light and comfort to others before he died in a "needless" and preventable plane crash aboard Ethiopian Air Flight ET302, Illinois federal jurors heard Wednesday.

Boeing, UN Worker's Family Set For 3rd Ethiopian Air Trial

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. must go to trial so a jury can determine whether the global insurance brokerage firm terminated a former executive and denied him severance to avoid paying out nearly $6 million in deferred compensation benefits, an Illinois federal judge said Friday.

Attys Secure $15M Fees In Abbott Formula Shareholder Suit

An Illinois federal judge has tossed a Chicago driver's proposed class lawsuit challenging two speeding tickets she received in a high school safety zone, adding that one claim requires administrative adjudication before it returns to court.

A customer of Kate Hudson's activewear business Fabletics has dropped her claim for refunds of global tariffs she alleged the actress's company passed on to customers before the U.S. Supreme Court found them illegal.