By Andrew R. Schwartz | Published December 7, 2020 | Posted in Commercial Litgation, Contract Law, Legal Processes | Comments Off on Literally Taking the Case
In their December 2020 Illinois Bar Journal article, attorneys Andrew R. Schwartz and John Cerney present the following scenario: Without first consulting its lawyers, your firm’s major client, Hapless Client, LLC, entered into a horrible one-sided contract with Sketchy Business, Inc. To make matters worse, Sketchy just filed a contract claim against Hapless to enforce that contract, Read More
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