NPEs and patent holders continued targeting major retailers in January. Frequent filers included Patent Armory, Wolverine Barcode IP, Content Aware, Intellectual Ventures, VDPP, and Cedar Lane Technologies. Retailers across the spectrum—from big-box to specialty—found themselves named as defendants in infringement actions.As usual, I prepared the report in partnership with and using Docket Navigator and its powerful database. Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and the place to go if you want to keep track of new patent litigation filings or want to know what is happening in particular cases, how your judge has historically handled a particular type of motion,…
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Selling a home without a realtor — often referred to as a “For Sale By Owner” (FSBO) transaction — is becoming more common in the Chicago area, especially when a seller already has a buyer lined up.
At first glance, these deals can seem simpler. There’s no listing process, no showings, and no back-and-forth through agents.
But what many sellers don’t realize is that the legal and closing process doesn’t go away just because a realtor isn’t involved.
Understanding what still applies can help prevent delays, confusion, and unnecessary risk.

What Changes (and What Doesn’t)
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Before getting started on the blog entry for the week, if anybody is interested in the journey I took to get to my law and consulting practices, I discussed that journey in this article. This week’s blog entry is an update on a case that we previously blogged on here, Payan v, Los Angeles Community College District. Since that blog entry, it was sent back down to the trial court where a trial occurred and was then subsequently appealed back to the Ninth Circuit after that with the Ninth Circuit issuing a published decision on March 11, 2026, here…
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Home > Blog > What Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) Means for Your Illinois Injury Settlement Your doctor walks in, reviews your latest imaging, and says something like: “I think we’ve done everything we can do. You’re at maximum medical improvement.” It sounds like good news. It is, in a way—it …
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Home > Blog > How Medical Liens Reduce Your Net Settlement in Illinois: What You Actually Take Home You hear the number and feel a wave of relief. Your personal injury case settled. The figure sounds meaningful—enough to justify the months of treatment, the missed work, the stress. Then your …
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Home > Blog > Five Car Accidents, Five Different Outcomes: Why Every Illinois Injury Case Is Unique People want to know what their case is “worth.” It’s the first question most clients ask, and it’s a fair one. But the honest answer is always: it depends. Not on a formula. …
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Home > Blog > The Specialists Who Matter Most After a Car Accident in Illinois After a car accident, the emergency room stabilizes you. But the ER doesn’t build your injury case. That happens over the weeks and months that follow, as you move through a chain of specialists—each one …
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Home > Blog > Insurance Policy Limits in Illinois: How a $25,000 Cap Changes Everything About Your Case Here’s a scenario that plays out in our office more often than it should. A client comes in after a serious car accident. They have documented injuries—a herniated disc, a fracture, months …
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Under Illinois Rule of Evidence 106, if your spouse introduces a misleading partial document or recording at trial, you can demand the court admit the rest of the document or recording to provide full context. A divorce trial is very different than other trials. Most trials are about a singular moment in time: an accident, a crime, a breach of contract. In contrast, a divorce trial will require the presentment of incidents that occurred over years…and all of those incidents are in context of each other. Ensuring that the introduction of these incidences include the appropriate context requires that complete…
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To check nursing home violations, start with CMS Care Compare, then review state inspection reports, complaint histories, ombudsman resources, and any enforcement actions tied to the facility. If a facility’s records suggest serious neglect or abuse, our attorneys can review the history, explain what the violations may mean, and help families decide what to do next.

What Is the Best Way to Check for Nursing Home Violations?

The best way to check for nursing home violations is to start with official records, then use outside sources only for added context:

  • Start with CMS Care Compare
  • Check state inspection and

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Medicare usually does not pay for assisted living, as custodial help is not within its scope of funding. It may still cover certain medical services a resident receives while living there, but not the cost of the setting itself. 

At Nursing Home Law Center, we look at what happens when financial limits, thin supervision, or the wrong level of care put an elderly resident in danger, and help families hold facilities accountable when they cannot safely meet a resident’s needs and harm follows.

Does Medicare Cover Assisted Living?

Usually no. Medicare coverage does not pay the monthly assisted living…
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How long it takes to die from sepsis depends on the person’s current health and how quickly they receive treatment. Sepsis can become fatal very quickly as vital organs are compromised. If treatment is delayed, septic shock can cause death in as little as 12 hours. While some sepsis cases progress more slowly, the condition can worsen fast enough that any suspected case should be treated as a medical emergency. 

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A company leased property in unincorporated Kane County intending to develop a solar farm. After the company applied for a special use permit from the county, the city council approved a resolution protesting the application and representatives of the city, as well as others, objected to the application at the county ZBA hearing on the application. Ultimately, the county board approved the special use permit, and shortly thereafter, the city adopted an ordinance to forcibly annex the subject property and adjacent parcels. The annexation ordinance stated that the property was “wholly bounded” by the city based on a previous voluntary…
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Janssen Prods., L.P. & Pharma Mar, S.A. v. EVER Valinject GmbH, et al., Slip Op, 24 C 7319 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 21, 2025) (McNally, Mag. J.).Magistrate Judge McNally denied defendants’ motion to issue letters of request under the Hague Evidence Convention seeking documents and depositions from three foreign inventors and a Netherlands research institute related to the asserted patent.Applying the comity analysis recognized in Aerospatiale and its progeny, the Court found the proposed letters lacking on multiple fronts:

  • insufficiently tailored to issues of infringement and validity;
  • overly broad and vague (including sweeping requests about undefined “foreign counterparts” and “any”

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Losing your job is hard for anyone, but more so for someone on a U.S. employment-based visa. Your immigration status, your ability to stay in this country, and everything you have built here may suddenly feel at risk. The situation is serious, but it is not hopeless.
Under 8 CFR § 214.1, nonimmigrant visa holders are required to maintain the conditions of their visa status. For employment-based visas, that generally means remaining employed by the sponsoring employer. When that employment ends, your status may be affected almost immediately, depending on the type of visa you hold.
Understanding what…
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Many affluent retirees in Illinois assume that long-term care planning is something only lower-income families need to worry about. If you have built a $2 to $5 million estate over a lifetime of disciplined saving, it can feel like you have enough to cover anything. That assumption, however, is one of the most expensive financial mistakes a family can make in 2026.
Healthcare costs do not just affect people with limited resources. They erode wealth across all income levels, and estates in the $2 to $5 million range are especially vulnerable. They are large enough that families feel protected, but…
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