by Adam J. Glazer | May 13, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
“True friends stab you in the front,” noted Oscar Wilde, and a recent Illinois decision vividly illustrates the famed playwright’s point. Plaintiffs Brian and Nicole Kelly were not only friends with defendants Larry Orrico and Renae Yockey, they lived two doors down...
by Adam J. Glazer | Apr 15, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Some manufacturers will initially consider a sales rep’s commission claim with sympathy, others with reasonableness, and perhaps most with nervous skepticism. Then there is The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. (now known as McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.), a leading...
by Adam J. Glazer | Apr 9, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
He’s not a big name in Chicago, but Vito J. Lopez is notorious in New York. Once considered among the state’s most powerful politicians, the former chairman of the Brooklyn Democrats and longtime state assemblyman resigned from office in disgrace last year after two...
by Adam J. Glazer | Mar 10, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Just in time for spring training, baseball litigation seems to be on the upswing. Exhibit A is the suit filed by three ex-farmhands on Feb. 7 in San Francisco federal court alleging Major League Baseball, three of its teams and the commissioner “have preyed upon minor...
by Adam J. Glazer | Feb 4, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Law school finals? The semester barely started. Yet it is never too early to begin constructing the contemporary law school final exam question. Follow the tried‐and‐true law school exam question formula taken from classes mixing law and social policy. Begin with a...
