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Craig A. Cohen, Mark Rosenberg | Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, LLC

The Illinois Supreme Court on August 18, 2005, reversed a $1.2 billion verdict entered against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in the national aftermarket parts class action entitled Avery v. State Farm. In this long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court went far beyond the...

Martin H. Karo, G. Frank McKnight | Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, LLC

There's no escaping the fact that virtually all antitrust cases, and indeed complex litigation of any kind, revolve around documents, often tens of thousands of them in both paper and electronic format. And plaintiff's counsel will want every one of them. When confronted with vast and invasive...

Martin H. Karo, G. Frank McKnight | Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, LLC

When corporations first began to use computer systems to store information electronically, the legal world was largely unaware of the dramatic effect such a change would have on litigation discovery practices. Even as the use of such systems began to spread rapidly, many attorneys remained...