On December 12, 2017, the National Transportation Safety Board met to present its findings and proposed recommendations related to the sinking of the U.S. cargo ship El Faro. Click here to read Robert Crowder’s...
In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals – which governs Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin – ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) does not require employers to give employees...
A new lawsuit filed by a scientific research institute in Wisconsin seeks $13 million in damages from a transportation company it contends damaged an IBM supercomputer known as Bluefire during transport from Colorado to...
After leaving your Illinois-based insurance company, a now-former employee sends a LinkedIn invitation to your remaining employees with his new contact information at a competitor company. In doing so, did that former...
In an effort to determine whether requiring civil litigants to respond to a series of standard discovery requests before undertaking other discovery will reduce the costs and delays often associated with litigation, the...
Was The Employee’s Participation “Voluntary” Enough To Preclude A Workers’ Compensation Claim? In the spirit of building teamwork and camaraderie among its personnel, an employer sponsors a company volleyball game...