Chicago's Legal Latte

This podcast will explore the nature of a basic breach of contract action and other related theories of contractual and quasi-contractual liability.

For those people considering contesting the assessment of the appraised valuation with respect to their property taxes. We will discuss the basics of appealing your property tax assessment.

Plenty of businesses aren’t paid by customers every day. but when there isn’t a written contract between the parties, many businesses think that there is no remedy at all. That’s not necessarily the case. We’ll look into the law of oral contracts, how enforceable these agreements are, when they are not enforceable, and the potential remedies for someone looking to recover damages from a breach of an oral contract.

The home health care industry is now very competitive with a tremendous amount of agencies. Such competition places pressure on the agencies to locate qualified patients, to which to provide health care services. At the same time, State and Federal Law places restrictions on how to compensate marketers and or sources of patients. These factors make it increasingly difficult to operate a home health care company.

This podcast will focus on guardianship in Illinois and the responsibilities and obligations it entails.

This podcast will discuss litigation cases where a minority shareholder in a company brings a lawsuit against one or more shareholders who hold a majority interest in the same company for wrongful and oppressive conduct against the minority shareholder.

This podcast will assist homeowners in understanding how to maximize their property tax savings.

This podcast is for people considering helping a family member, friend or fiancé with a large purchase or helping a business with its growth or survival. We will discuss just what the effect of signing a guaranty is for the guarantor.

Listen in as Commercial realtor, Randy Olczyk, and Attorney Kerry Lavelle discuss the opportunities, and pitfalls of real estate investing in this opportunistic market.

This podcast will discuss collection options for debts under $10,000 and what avenues a person may pursue to collect from people who owe small amounts.

The podcast will cover corporate ways to bring in capital, what type of interest you can give in exchange for cash, how much you should give away and types of incentives you can give an investor. The banking perspective will discuss leasing, SBA, as well as other ways to accelerate cash flow such as next-day deposit funding and 24-hour merchant processing account funding.

Owners in closely held businesses owe to their co-owners certain obligations, in how they manage the business. A failure by an owner in such a business, to enforce their rights, will result in a loss in value of their interest in such business. In this presentation, we will discuss what those rights are and what steps you can take in order to protect your interests.

Though the federal estate tax has been repealed for 2010, its return in 2011 will affect taxpayers with assets in excess of $1 million. Tune in to learn more about the changes to the estate tax laws and how to best plan to minimize the effect of the tax on your estate.

This podcast will address how lenders are utilizing clauses in personal guaranties, called confessions of judgment, in commercial loan cases in today’s economy.

This podcast is geared toward people considering purchasing a business. "Successor Liability for Business Debts" is an issue that may not be apparent in the initial investment.