Raise your hand if you hate spam or wasting time. Is your cell phone being inundated by telephone calls or texts from automated messages and telemarketers? In 1991, a law was passed that makes this process illegal. The law is called the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA. TCPA encompasses a few items including telemarketing, […]
Probably the most common area of law that we help with is Illinois divorce law. Plain and simple there are just more of those cases than any other area of law. We help people find the right attorney no matter what their situation is, but divorce is clearly the most common. While some divorces are […]
A very nice guy called me looking for an experienced lawyer in Chicago to prepare a pre-nuptial agreement. He didn’t really want one, but his wealthy Dad said that if he didn’t have one he’d be cut out of his inheritance. The two of us had a long conversation and I was able to refer […]
I’ve started to become a student of positive psychology. I talk to scores of people every day as I’m one of the few attorneys who will talk to anyone about any Illinois legal matter. When you do that it can test your patience because many callers don’t want to hear the truth (e.g. me telling […]
My grandmother was a wonderful woman who as she got older tended to repeat herself a lot. That was alright with me because she was adorable and mostly repeated things that made her laugh. Often this involved sayings that included her favorite, “It takes two to tango!” I think of her and this saying every […]
We represent and help a lot of people who have been injured in car accidents via our state wide network of Illinois attorneys. One of the crazy truths about these lawsuits is that you can have the worst injury imaginable or even death, but if you weren’t hit by someone with a lot of insurance […]
Like you, the plethora of daily fantasy sports commercials are making me long for the good old days when I had to change the channel so my young son wouldn’t be subjected to seventeen commercials in a row that lead to him asking me if I’ve ever had a four hour erection. Draft Kings and […]
In my line of work, I’ve learned not to be bothered by much. There’s no point and acting emotional isn’t a good quality for an attorney. That said, not much pisses me off more than those people who, as a marketing tool to help insurance companies, talk about how our legal system in Illinois heavily […]
If you have suffered a work injury in Illinois, it might seem ideal to look for the best workers’ compensation lawyer in the state. So how do you go about doing that? The good news is that you don’t need to worry about finding the single “best” attorney because, quite honestly, we don’t believe there […]
We talk mostly on our site about Illinois laws and the types of attorneys who recommend. There are approximately 70,000 active attorneys in Illinois and the ones we recommend are who we think are the best around for your unique situations. There are plenty of good ones that we don’t recommend as well as we […]