Barry Minkow, who, while still in high school, founded ZZZZ Best, a carpet cleaning and restoration company that turned out to be a massive Ponzi scheme, talks about one of the many ways he manipulated auditors. DiTommaso Lubin’s Chicago business trial lawyers have more than two and half decades of…
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Dirty Car Salesmen Come Clean
We bring suit for auto dealer fraud and other car dealer scams such as selling rebuilt wrecks as certified used cars or misrepresenting a car as being in good condition when it is rebuilt wreck or had the odometer rolled back. Super Lawyers has selected our DuPage and Cook County…
Video — New Complaints Against Car Dealership
We bring suit for auto dealer fraud and other car dealer scams such as selling rebuilt wrecks as certified used cars or misrepresenting a car as being in good condition when it is rebuilt wreck or had the odometer rolled back. Super Lawyers has selected our DuPage and Cook County…
Video On Used Car Dealer Sued For Fraud BY AG — Our Chicago Auto Dealer Fraud Lawyers File Suit On Behalf of Consumers
We bring suit for auto dealer fraud and other car dealer scams such as selling rebuilt wrecks as certified used cars or misrepresenting a car as being in good condition when it is rebuilt wreck or had the odometer rolled back. Super Lawyers has selected our DuPage and Cook County…
Wall Street Journal Reports: “Judge Rules Against Lightstone And Enforces Bad Boy Clause in Real-Estate Loan Penalizing Borrower For Declaring Bankruptcy”
Many real-estate loans for large transactions include a so called “bad boy” clause which penalizes borrowers for declaring bankruptcy. Many borrowers didn’t take these clauses seriously in the past believing that they could declare bankruptcy and argue that the clauses were uneforcable as violating public policy encourcaging business business…
Appellate Court Overturns Dismissal of Chicago Paramedics Unpaid Overtime Class-Action
Every day there are hard working people who are denied the overtime wages that they have rightfully earned. At DiTommaso Lubin, we have much experience representing those with unpaid overtime claims in class-action litigation. As such, we track the changes in the wage laws and are always looking out for…
Appellate Court of Illinois Upholds Circuit Court’s Rescission of Oral Agreement to Jointly Purchase a Gas Station due to Fraudulent Misrepresentation
When starting a new business venture, choosing the right partners is one of the most important decisions any company owner will make. Unfortunately, not all partnerships work out, and in some instances that is due to the dishonest machinations of fellow owners. Our Elgin business attorneys recently discovered one such…
Northern District of Illinois Federal Court Grants Motion to Send Notice to Expanded Class in Unpaid Overtime Class-Action Litigation
Large corporations are often built upon the labor of many hard-working hourly employees. Unfortunately, such companies do not always pay their employees the wages that they have earned, and when such mistakes are made, those employees must do what they can to get what they are owed. When enough employees…
Illinois’ Franchise Act Does Not Require Manufacturers to Extend Contractual Agreements that Grant Exclusive Sales Territory
DiTommaso Lubin has clients that operate a variety of businesses all across the state of Illinois. While there are common laws and legal principles that apply to all companies and corporations, there are other Illinois statutes that apply to specific types of businesses. Our Elgin business attorneys came across Clark…
LLC Operating Agreement Arbitration Clauses are Only Enforceable Against Those Party to the Agreement
As a firm of Chicago and Orland Park business attorneys, DiTommaso Lubin handles litigation for companies in a wide range of industries. Our Schaumburg business lawyers recently came across a case from St. Clair county that is of interest to LLC’s and those businesses who include arbitration clauses in their…