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  • June 10, 2009 | Practice News
    Negotiating loan modifications for homeowners
    Even after foreclosure is filed, a homeowner has a 40 percent chance of saving the house, Tracie R. Porter and Michael W. van Zalingen write in the June Real Estate Law newsletter. And those who can't hang on should exert as much control over the sale as possible.  Find out how.
  • June 10, 2009 | Practice News
    Nobody shot the sheriff...
    ... or the deputy, for that matter. But the Illinois Supreme Court did make employment law a little claimant-friendlier with its recent ruling in Sangamon County Sheriff's Department v Illinois Human Rights Commission. The justices held that employers are liable for sexual harassment by supervisors whether or not the employer knew about it and even though the employee-victim doesn't work under the supervisor. Read about it in the June Illinois Bar Journal and the June Labor and Employment Law newsletter.