Practice Areas
Litigation Group
The Litigation Group is experienced with a full range of business related claims, disputes, and regulatory matters for individuals and both publicly and privately owned businesses and governmental entities. Such claims relate to:
- contracts,
- business torts,
- real estate,
- business dissolutions,
- fraud and white collar crime,
- employment,
- intellectual property,
- technology,
- antitrust,
- estates and trusts,
- land use/zoning,
- securities, and
- state and local tax.
Clients come from all business and public sectors, including:
- accounting,
- communications media,
- energy,
- entertainment,
- financial institutions,
- law,
- restaurant/food service,
- retail,
- sports,
- transportation, and
- local and federal government.
Litigation Group members practice
in all Illinois courts - state and federal - trial and appellate,
and appear in courtrooms and before administrative agencies
throughout the United States. They also handle alternative dispute
resolution, including arbitration and mediation.
The Litigation Group works closely with the firm's transaction and
tax practices, approaching business disputes as business problems
to be resolved promptly and cost effectively. Since most disputes
are settled, even a litigated matter is approached in a manner
designed to identify and create opportunities for early, favorable
resolution. Matters which cannot be so resolved are aggressively
pursued through trial.
Professionals
Industries Served
- Automotive Manufacturing & Dealerships
- Banking
- Broadcast Media
- Construction
- Energy & Utilities
- Entrepreneur/Start-Up Companies
- Financial Services
- Food/Beverage Services & Hospitality
- Healthcare
- Information Technology
- Leasing Companies
- Manufacturing & Distribution
- Mortgage Companies
- Not-For-Profit Organizations
- Pharmaceuticals
- Retail
- Service Companies
- Shipping & Logistics
- Specialty Finance
- Telecommunications
- Trading Companies
Publications
- Identifying and Protecting Confidential Information
- Bankruptcy is Not a Haven to Elude Judgment Creditors After Willfully Transferring Assets
- Creative New Mechanisms for Banks to Recover Stolen Collateral
- Field of Schemes
- Follow the Money
- International Fraud Remedies
- International Fraud: Freeze, Seize, and Retrieve
- Litigation and Recovery of Assets in Argentina
- Navigating Recoveries of World-Wide Frauds
- Recovering Assets in the Wake of Fraud
- The Practicability of the Commercial Impracticability Defense
- Have You Been Compromised?, November 2011
- Practical Guidance for Trustee Risk Management, Spring 2007
- New York Court Reels In Off-Shore Limited Partnerships that Failed to Make Appropriate Distributions to Former Partners, June 2003
- Are Your Secrets 'Thumbing' a Ride?, March 2012
- Avoiding Hearsay Traps in Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation, May 2012
- Fiduciary Alert - Fiduciaries Beware: New California Franchise Tax Notice Requirements, March 2013
- Mortgage Foreclosure Alert - Alternative Means to Sell Property Under Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Act, April 2013
Presentations
- "The Law of Fraudulent Conveyance," National Business Institute Teleconference, February 2009
- "Understanding LLC Related Fiduciary Obligations and the Rights of Minority Members," National Business Institute, 2007
- "Walking the Ethical Line," National Business Institute, 2007
- "Collection Realities and Pre-Suit Strategies," National Business Institute, 2007
- "Antitrust, @ssociations and the New Economy," Association Forum, January/Feburary 2002
News & Events
- Hechtman and Mathias Article on Identifying and Protecting Confidential Information featured in Contract Packaging Magazine, March 2011
- Megan Mathias Receives Women of Achievement Awards, May 2011
- Jeffrey H. Bunn Appointed Subcommittee Chair for the Chicago Bar Association Commercial Litigation Committee, November 2011
- HMB Attorneys selected as 2012 Super Lawyers, January 2012
- "What You Need to Know About Fraudulent Conveyance Law" Live Webcast, June 2012
- Jeffrey H. Bunn Named a Top Rated AV Preeminent Lawyer in Intellectual Property Litigation By Martindale-Hubbell, July 2012
- Illinois CPA Society 2012 Fraud Conference, September 2012
- HMB Attorneys selected as 2013 Super Lawyers, January 2013
Cases
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