by: Maryjo F. Pirages Reynolds Effective January 1, 2019, the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act has been amended to require employers to reimburse expenses incurred by employees in connection with their employment. These expenses include reasonable expenditures or losses required in the discharge of an employee’s duties which primarily benefit the employer. Losses due […]
Maryjo Pirages Reynolds November 14th, 2018
Posted In: Employment & Labor
by: Aaron W. Brooks Digital storage systems raise a number of legal issues that are challenging yet manageable if they are fully understood. One such issue is managing the durability of electronic data when the original paper document is no longer available to remaster the digital image if it were to become lost or inaccessible. […]
Aaron Brooks June 22nd, 2018
Posted In: Privacy, Security & Information Technology
by: Alexander J. Mezny The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals covers Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The Seventh Circuit previously invalidated arbitration agreements which required employees’ claims to be brought individually and not as class actions. The Seventh Circuit reasoned that such waivers violated employees’ right to engage in concerted activities under the National Labor Relations […]
Alexander Mezny June 14th, 2018
Posted In: Civil Litigation
by: Ryan M. Gailey & Kristine Pihl Youman Are you a part of a Condominium Association (“Association”) looking to explore different options regarding what types of buyers and renters may become residents? For some Associations, it may be desirable to establish restrictions regarding the age of residents across the Association, or the […]
Kristine Pihl Youman June 8th, 2018
Posted In: Real Estate
by: Philip R. Frankfort The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created a new concept for tax-exempt organizations – an excise tax on excess executive compensation. New Internal Revenue Code Section 4960 became effective January 1, 2018; and actually creates two separate taxes. First, there is a tax of 21% on remuneration over $1,000,000 paid in […]
Philip Frankfort May 24th, 2018
Posted In: Corporate & Business
by: Aaron W. Brooks The terms “cloud computing” and “cloud storage” are generally used to describe any system of managing or storing data that is not dependent upon a single device or computer. “Cloud computing” usually means that the data can be accessed over the Internet, and frequently means that the data is stored on […]
Aaron Brooks May 11th, 2018
Posted In: Privacy, Security & Information Technology
by: Michael J. Schappert Attorneys are often contacted by a client after a problem arises and are asked to help resolve it. While we are happy to do so, experience has shown that having good strategies and documents in place ahead of time often prevents the problem from arising in the first place. Following is […]
Michael Schappert April 27th, 2018
Posted In: Corporate & Business
by: Alexander J. Mezny The United States Supreme Court has just rejected 50 years of precedent holding that overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) must be narrowly construed against the employer. The case, Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Hector Navarro, et al., involved one of the many industry-specific exemptions to the FLSA – […]
Alexander Mezny April 19th, 2018
Posted In: Employment & Labor
by: Aaron W. Brooks This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold its First Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Conference. The core purpose of the Conference will be to analyze the results of last fall’s Round 1 Submissions process, in which candidates submitted proposals to standardize one or more quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. […]
Aaron Brooks April 11th, 2018
Posted In: Privacy, Security & Information Technology
Content Editor: Maryjo F. Pirages Reynolds Original Author Credit: Allison M. Huntley The Second District Appellate Court recently ruled on BMO Harris Bank N.A. v. Joe Contarino, Inc., 2017 IL App (2d) 160371, a case concerning an amendment to the Conveyances Act from 1996. The case directly impacts Illinois creditors lending to residential and commercial landlords. […]
Maryjo Pirages Reynolds March 13th, 2018
Posted In: Civil Litigation, Real Estate