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List of Forms by Chapter
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Chapter 1 — Pleadings
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Chapter 2 — Petition To Perpetuate Testimony
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Chapter 3 — Discovery Before Suit To Identify Parties
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Chapter 4 — Adding Respondents in Discovery
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Chapter 5 — Actions in Accounting
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Chapter 6 — Conversion
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Chapter 7 — Quo Warranto
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Chapter 8 — Mandamus
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Chapter 9 — Class Actions
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Chapter 10 — Interpleader
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Chapter 11 — Unauthorized Practice of Law
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Chapter 12 — Federal Actions in Illinois State Courts
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Chapter 13 — Removal and Remand from Federal Court
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Chapter 14 — Injunctions
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Douglas M. Belofsky
Douglas M. Belofsky
Douglas M. Belofsky, Law Offices of Douglas Belofsky, P.C., in Northbrook, concentrates his practice in corporate law and business planning; estate planning, business succession, and probate; and litigation. Mr. Belofsky received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
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Kimberly E. Rients Blair
Kimberly E. Rients Blair
Kimberly E. Rients Blair is a Partner with Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, in Chicago, where her practice focuses on the defense of professional and insurance coverage litigation. Ms. Blair is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, and Professional Liability Underwriters Society. She received her B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was a member of the Vanderbilt Moot Court Board.
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Gregory M. Boyle
Gregory M. Boyle
Gregory M. Boyle is a Partner with Jenner & Block LLP, in Chicago, and a member of the firm’s Class Action Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Boyle concentrates his practice in complex civil litigation, having represented clients in numerous class actions, including federal multidistrict litigation brought by commodity customers of the bankrupt firm MF Global, and an Illinois state court putative consumer class action against a bank concerning its debit card and overdraft charges, and other cases involving electrical service interruptions, landlord-tenant laws, and the Consumer Fraud Act. Mr. Boyle is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Litigation, where he has served as a Coeditor of the Committee on Pretrial Practice & Discovery Newsletter. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Carleton College, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Ryan R. Bradley
Ryan R. Bradley
Ryan R. Bradley is a Partner at Koester & Bradley, LLP, in Champaign, where he focuses his practice almost entirely on civil litigation including mass torts, especially defective medical devices and drugs, automobile accidents, wrongful death, medical negligence, products liability, and general personal injury. He is also involved in class action litigation as well as business litigation. He is a Professor of business law and is and past President of the Board of Directors of the Mother's Morning Out Preschool. He is a member of the Champaign County, Illinois State, and American Bar Associations; the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association; and the American Association of Justice. Mr. Bradley received a B.B.A. cum laude from Loyola College in Maryland, where he also received a Presidential Scholarship, and his J.D. from Vermont Law School after spending his first year of legal education at the University of Richmond School of Law.
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Nathaniel O. Brown
Nathaniel O. Brown
Nathaniel O. Brown is an associate with Weilmuenster & Keck P.C., in Belleville, where he concentrates his practice in litigation, primarily quality of care issues and civil rights. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar and Illinois Trial Lawyers Associations. He received both his B.A. and J.D. from Southern Illinois University.
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Jeffrey D. Colman
Jeffrey D. Colman
Jeffrey D. Colman is a Partner with Jenner & Block LLP, in Chicago, where his practice is concentrated in civil and criminal litigation at both the trial and appellate court levels. Mr. Colman has served as lead counsel — for both plaintiffs and defendants — in numerous class action cases, including plaintiff classes in housing and employment discrimination cases and defendants in class actions involving products liability, securities, civil rights, and professional liability issues. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Chicago Council of Lawyers, and the Chicago, Illinois State, and American Bar Associations. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Stanford Law School.
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Jeshel Forrester
Jeshel Forrester
Jeshel Forrester is a novelist, poet, songwriter, and memoirist living in Rotorua, New Zealand. He has taught at universities in Oregon, Illinois, Australia, and New Zealand. He is married, with six children, a Vespa, and two cats. He holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Eastern Illinois University, a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, and a graduate certificate in theology from Australian Catholic University.
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Hon. Richard P. Goldenhersh
Hon. Richard P. Goldenhersh
Hon. Richard P. Goldenhersh is an Appellate Judge in the Illinois Appellate Court Fifth District, in Belleville, where he has served since 1988. Prior to his service on the appellate court, Judge Goldenhersh was a Circuit Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit. He is a member of the St. Clair County and Illinois State Bar Associations and former President of the Illinois Judges Association. Judge Goldenhersh is a member of the Supreme Court Committee on Complex Litigation, the ISBA Section Council on Civil Practice and Procedure, and former Chairperson of the Associate Judge Coordinating Committee. He received his A.B. from Washington University and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
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William R. Graham, Jr.
William R. Graham, Jr.
William R. Graham, Jr. is a practicing attorney in Champaign where he focuses his practice on the representation of claimants in wrongful-death and personal-injury actions, including those arising out of auto injury, medical negligence, and products liability, individually and through class action. Mr. Graham has taught for IICLE® on consumer fraud and deceptive business practices, and he is a contributing Illinois author in the ABA SURVEY OF STATE CLASS ACTION LAW. He received his J.D. cum laude from Michigan State University Law School, where he was an editor and published contributor for the law review.
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Mark L. Hellner
Mark L. Hellner
Mark L. Hellner is the Executive Director of the Center for Disability & Elder Law in Chicago. His practice focuses on assisting low-income seniors and adults with disabilities. He received the Board of Governor’s Award from the Illinois State Bar Association and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Illinois State University Department of English. Mr. Hellner received his B.S. from Illinois State University and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
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Timothy W. Kelly
Timothy W. Kelly
Timothy W. Kelly heads Kelly Law Offices, P.C., in Bloomington and Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in personal injury. Mr. Kelly has been an IICLE® faculty member for seminars on Illinois civil litigation, proof of damages, and negotiating personal-injury cases and has been a contributor to numerous IICLE® publications, including PROVING AND DISPROVING DAMAGES IN PERSONAL INJURY CASES and the IICLE® QuickGuide LAYING FOUNDATIONS FOR INTRODUCING EVIDENCE, for which he is the sole author. He also has been on the faculty for both Illinois State Bar Association and Illinois Trial Lawyers Association legal education programs.He is an active member of the Chicago, McLean County, and Illinois State Associations and of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Bar Foundation. Mr. Kelly is a past board member of IICLE® and has served on the Board of Managers of ITLA since 1992. He has been named as an Illinois Leading Lawyer and an Illinois Super Lawyer. In 2013, He was named a Top 100 National Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyer Association. He was named IICLE®’s Most Valuable Volunteer for Publications in 2008. He is certified in Illinois as an arbitrator and mediator. Mr. Kelly received his B.S. from the University of Dayton and his J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law.
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Alexander Barry Mahler
Alexander Barry Mahler
Alexander Barry Mahler is a Partner at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in insurance coverage, professional liability, fidelity/commercial crime, and environmental/mass tort. Mr. Mahler routinely represents domestic and international insurers as coverage and litigation counsel in a variety of contexts and jurisdictions and has significant experience with most other lines of coverage and in matters involving bad faith and appellate litigation, as well as extensive experience in negotiating favorable resolutions of matters presenting complex legal and coverage issues and multimillion-dollar exposures to his clients. Mr. Mahler received his B.S. magna cum laude from Arizona State University and his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.
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J. Brian Manion
J. Brian Manion
J. Brian Manion is an associate with Weilmuenster & Keck, P.C., in Belleville, where he concentrates his practice in plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation, commercial litigation, municipal law, and labor law. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar and Illinois Trial Lawyers Associations. Mr. Manion received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. cum laude from Southern Illinois University, where he served as a case note/comment editor for the Southern Illinois University Law Journal.
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Tyler S. Mertes
Tyler S. Mertes
Tyler S. Mertes is an associate with Troutman Sanders LLP, in Chicago, with an extensive practice in matters related to insurance issues. He has also represented attorneys in both state and federal courts in numerous lawsuits involving a variety of claims, including but not limited to real estate malpractice, litigation malpractice, and business advice/transactional malpractice, in arbitrations and before the ARDC. He received both his B.A. and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois.
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S. Linn Perkins
S. Linn Perkins
S. Linn Perkins is a Partner with Westervelt, Johnson, Nicoll & Keller, LLC, in Peoria, where she concentrates her practice in commercial litigation, banking, creditors’ rights, and collection matters. She authored the chapter on collectionsin IICLE®’s THE ILLINOIS LAWYER’S OVERVIEW: A GUIDE TO COMMON PRACTICE AREAS and the chapter on consumer collections and consumer bankruptcy in IICLE®’s former ADVISING ILLINOIS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. She is a member of the Peoria County and Illinois State Bar Associations and the Abraham Lincoln Inns of Court (Emeritus Member). Ms. Perkins received her B.S. from MacMurray College and her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
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Christina Rose Spiezia
Christina Rose Spiezia
Christina Rose Spiezia is an associate with Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, in Chicago, where she focuses her practice on commercial litigation. Ms. Spiezia is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations. She received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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Howard S. Suskin
Howard S. Suskin
Howard S. Suskin is a Partner with Jenner & Block LLP, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice on securities litigation and class action defense. He serves as General Counsel for the Chicago Bar Association; on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute; and as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Cook County Circuit Court, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and the National Futures Association. Mr. Suskin earned his B.A. with distinction from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an Editor of the University of Michigan Law Review.
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Richard L. Whitman, Sr.
Richard L. Whitman, Sr.
Richard L. Whitman, Sr., is a Partner with Whitman and Baber in Monmouth, where he engages in general practice. He is a Past President of the Warren County Bar Association and a member of the Illinois State Bar and Illinois Trial Lawyers Associations. Mr. Whitman received his B.A. from Eastern Illinois University and his J.D. from Northwestern University, where he was Editor of the Law Review.
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Miles J. Zaremski
Miles J. Zaremski
Miles J. Zaremski is the Founding Partner of the Zaremski Law Group in Highland Park, where he concentrates his practice in healthcare, professional medical liability, alternative dispute resolution, and appeals. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and Who’s Who in American Law and has been named an Illinois Leading Lawyer and an Illinois Super Lawyer in healthcare. Mr. Zaremski received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Causes of Action (Illinois): Common Considerations 2016 Edition
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