Vol. 22 (2009-10)
How to Avoid and Respond to Trademark Office Actions By Shannon A. R. Bond
POP! Goes your trademark! How to protect your client's trademarks in the post-Medinol world. By Joseph F. Emmerth
Use and Sale of Trademarks in Internet Applications: Avoiding Trademark Infringement in Keyword Advertising and Website Metatags By Steven Behnken
What Social Squatting Means for Trademark Holders: How to Protect Your Brand on Social Networking Sites By Aura Lichtenberg & Melissa Solomon
How to Secure Your Client’s Brand Against Counterfeiting Operations in Asia By Eric R. Waltmire
Articles:Bankruptcy Practice: An Overview By Jay Reese
Understanding the Automatic Stay of Bankruptcy for the General Practitioner By Arthur W. Rummler363 Sales in Bankruptcy By Michael J. Davis
An Overview of Illinois Post Judgment Law By Joshua D. Greene
Winning the Race to the Recorder’s Office – The Downfall of First in Time By Timothy M. Hughes
Articles:Parenting Agreements for Non-Christian Parents: A Short Primer on Holidays Beyond Christmas By Emily R. Carrara
Terminating the Same-sex Relationship: A Practical Approach By Leah D. Setzen
Discharge of Divorce Debts in Bankruptcy: The Timing of a Bankruptcy Petition - Before or After the Dissolution? By Arthur W. Rummler
Where is the Fraud? It Could Be Anywhere! By Ed Cikanek
NIU'S Northern ExposureIllinois Doesn’t Care About Caregivers the Custodial Claims Statute of the Probate Act By Mariam Hafezi Qualman
The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 By William D. Goren
USERRA Is Not FMLA By Lisa M. Stauff
Navigating the Maze of the Family and Medical Leave Act By Kristin M. Case
NIU'S Northern ExposureIraq Veterans’ War With The VA: PTSD Claims Under a Procedural Due Process Analysis By Purvi Shah
The Urchel-Snyder Conflict A Statute of Limitations Dilemma with Potential Attorney Malpractice Ramifications By Tom Knight With Special Thanks for Their Help to Anne Knight, Michelle Grotto and Adam Kruse
If a Home Repair and Remodeling Contractor Fails to Give the Homeowner a Consumer Rights Brochure, Can the Homeowner Get Away with Stiffing the Contractor? By James L. Ryan and Matthew T. Caruso
Implied Easements By James F. McCluskey and Lauryn E. Parks
Review of the Elements of a Valid Will Under the Illinois Probate Act By Lawrence P. Devens
Articles:An Absolute Right to Non-suit? Not So Fast: A Review of the Law Surrounding Voluntary Dismissals By Anique K. Drouin
Between a Rock And a Hard Place: How Recent Developments in Congress and the Supreme Court are Diminishing the Doctrine of Preemption and Leaving Drug and Device Makers Caught Between Competing Regulations. By Brian Michael Krause
‘Til Death Benefits Do Us Part: The Effect of Marital Settlement Agreements on Beneficiary Designations By Lisa M. Giese
A Local Government Perspective on Growing Smart in Brownfields By Jeffery Jeep and Mike Blazer
NIU’S NORTHERN EXPOSUREFourth District’s “Lack of Interest” Makes Non-Competition Agreements Easier to Enforce By Alexis Costello
Articles:Medical Privacy and Voir Dire: Going Beyond Doctor and Patient By Sara Zweig
Minimum Education Requirements Yield Maximum Benefits By Susan Raab Kloberdanz
Changes in Illinois Law Impose Increasingly Stringent Requirements on Notaries By Ted. A. Donner
State of the Courthouse 2010 By Honorable Stephen J. Culliton, Chief Judge
NIU'S NORTHERN EXPOSUREWhat to Do About Metadata: A Call to the Illinois State Bar Association for a Formal Ethics Opinion By Joshua M. AustinGrief (pdf file)**(cover photo by ©2010 REP3)
Articles:Family Matters: The Impact of Divorce on Your Client’s Business Interests By Daniel P. Fitzgerald
Primer on Local Government’s Toolbox for Assisting a Developer By Ann Marie Lampariello-Perez
Sale of a Business: The Forgotten Intangible Assets By Steve Behnken
Dissecting Chapter 7 Bankruptcy for Businesses By David M. Madden
NIU'S NORTHERN EXPOSUREMandatory Impoundment Policies: Giving Police Free Searches and Putting an Unfair Burden on Vehicle Owners in Violation of 625 ILCS 5/4-203 By Aaron Galloway
Articles:P.A. 96-0598 - New Rights for Organized Public Employees in Illinois By John Kelly
Textual Harassment Trends Particularly Troubling for Illinois Employers By Jonathon D. Hoag
Balancing a Public Employer’s Right to Know Against a Public Employee’s Right to Remain Silent: An Analysis of Garrity and its progeny. By Keith A. Karlson
Articles:“DREW’S LAW”: Why the Media Frenzy over Illinois’ Hearsay Exception for Intentional Murder of a Witness is Much Ado About Nothing By Rachel Hernandez
When Chemical Testing Precedes an Arrest for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol By Laura Amador Mitacek
Sealing the Entire Record: Dismissed Felony Charges and the Illinois Information and Identification Acts By Charles G. Wentworth
Admissibility of Character Evidence in Illinois Criminal Cases By Judge Liam C. Brennan
NIU's NORTHERN EXPOSUREThe Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act is Inconsistent with the Proportionate Penalties Clause of the Illinois Constitution By Zachary Townsend