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Litigation - Real Estate - Chicago, Illinois
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Richard G. Douglass is the managing shareholder at Douglas & Ladisch Douglass, PC where he represents individuals and businesses of all sizes in complex commercial litigation disputes related to finance, insurance, real estate and professional liability. Rich has successfully represented attorneys and law firms against breach of fiduciary duty and other claims. Throughout his career, Rich has earned high praise for his legal ability and professionalism.
Jim Figliulo is a trial lawyer with more than 40 years of experience in business-related litigation and a founding partner of Figliulo & Silverman. He has a track record of success in jury and bench trials in federal and state courts, and arbitrations. He has represented clients in a wide variety of business and real estate related disputes. Jim also has served as an arbitrator and mediator. He also has extensive appellate court experience, including oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme...
Ian H. Fisher represents commercial clients ranging from small entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 companies. Ian has successfully litigated cases involving real estate, antitrust, trade secret misappropriation, restrictive covenant, consumer, contract, and business tort disputes. Ian has substantial experience defending against class action and navigating multidistrict litigation proceedings. He has successfully defended on appeal many of his trial court victories. He is skilled at identifying stra...
Having served as a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois and Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, Jack George is a valued leader who possesses a deep knowledge of real estate law. Jack focuses his practice on real estate, land use, and zoning matters. He is instrumental in shaping the Chicago skyline, and has worked on numerous notable development projects consisting of complex elements such as zoning map amendments, planned development applications, an...
Howard is one of the founders of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP. He concentrates his practice on commercial real estate and related corporate, securities and business planning matters. Howard has extensive experience in the formation of joint ventures between institutional partners and developers and in the acquisition, development, leasing and disposition of office buildings, shopping centers and other retail locations, multi-family housing, industrial buildings and mixed u...
Eric N. Macey is a trial attorney with over 40 years of experience representing business corporations, institutions, investment ventures, partnerships and individuals in complex litigation matters. He has tried over 50 bench and jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the country. Eric has tried numerous high profile cases in a myriad of industries including real estate, banking and financial services, gaming, technology, and energy. Eric N. Macey Website Biography
Monte L. Mann is a partner at Novack and Macey LLP where he represents clients in high-stakes litigation concerning a wide variety of subject matters, with a particular emphasis on the financial services, commercial real estate, insurance and manufacturing industries, as well as in defending legal malpractice lawsuits. He is co-chair of the firm's Real Estate Litigation Practice Group. Monte has received numerous honors and distinctions throughout his career including being inducted into the ...
Thomas J. McNulty has significant experience in real estate taxation and related litigation. He represents a wide variety of taxpayers on a national level and has argued more than 50 reported appellate and Supreme Court cases. Tom has authored numerous articles regarding assessment ratio cases and the assessment and valuation of utility property. Most recently, he authored the chapter on “Tax Rate Objections” for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Litigation textbook on Real Es...
Steve Novack is a trial and appellate lawyer with over 45 years of experience representing business corporations, institutions, partnerships and individuals in complex litigation matters. Additionally, he represents some of the nation's most prominent law firms in legal malpractice, securities fraud and law partnership disputes.Steve has tried cases to courts, juries, arbitration panels, and administrative law judges in jurisdictions throughout the United States. He has handled appeals in the...
Kerry R. Peck is the managing partner of the Chicago law firm Peck Ritchey, LLC. He is the past President of the 22,000 lawyer Chicago Bar Association. His clients include families, hospitals, banks, the State of Illinois, County of Cook, and City of Chicago. For over ten consecutive years, he has been selected by his peers in statewide surveys of Illinois attorneys as a “Super Lawyer”, an attorney to whom other attorneys would refer their family, and he was named a member of the ...
Michael D. Sher represents clients in complex civil litigation and in business-related criminal investigations, trials and appeals in federal and state judicial and administrative proceedings. Chambers USA (2010) reports that Michael “has a stellar reputation among peers for his ‘first rate’ performance in court.” Michael has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (within Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Securities). Michael is...
Stephen Siegel is a partner at Novack and Macey LLP where he guides businesses and individuals in resolving their commercial disputes. Tools used include litigation, arbitration and negotiation, as appropriate to achieve client goals. In a typical engagement, he serves clients as both their vigorous advocate and a confidential counselor. Steve has a particular depth of experience in several types of business disputes: investment disputes and business divorces; real estate litigation; antitrus...
Pete has broad-based experience representing clients in sophisticated business disputes for more than 30 years in state and federal courts and has consistently achieved his client’s objectives, employing sound judgment, careful analysis and aggressive determination. Pete has extensive experience and has achieved outstanding results representing law firms and lawyers on professional responsibilities, fee disputes and claims of legal malpractice. He has significant experience defending in...
What Do You Focus on? Elizabeth represents health care companies, financial institutions and limited liability companies in a wide range of disputes and litigation that land in both federal and state courts as well as arbitration.What do you focus on?I represent clients in all stages of dispute resolution. Often we are successful resolving matters through negotiation and settlement, avoiding a lawsuit altogether. When a matter does go before the courts I have experience successfully arguing c...
Litigation - Real Estate Definition
For developers, litigation can arise with land sellers over purchase and sale agreements; with municipalities over zoning and entitlements; and with contractors over construction bidding, cost overruns, and construction defects and delays. For lenders, litigation can arise with borrowers over loan commitments, loan defaults and associated debt, and collateral recovery; with junior and mezzanine lenders over subordination obligations; and with mechanic lienors over priority rights to the real property and loan proceeds. For property owners, disputes can arise with retail and commercial tenants over unpaid rent, repair and restoration obligations, and rights of first refusal.
Disputes regularly arise out of the often-complicated and interrelated contracts of the various parties with interests in the property, and tort claims of various kinds may be asserted, from broad common law claims, such as fraud and tortious interference, to more real estate-specific claims, such as trespass, encroachment, and nuisance. Equitable considerations are often present because of the unique nature of real property rights. Special insurance rights, such as title and builder’s risk policies, may be implicated.
Top-tier lawyers in the area should have a comprehensive understanding of the contractual relations, business goals, and equitable and tort concepts attendant to the entire project. Practitioners may find themselves in state, federal, or bankruptcy courts, or, particularly in construction disputes, in arbitration.
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