Recent Trial Work for Ron Schwartz

In October 2006, Laurie Burgess and Ron Schwartz tried a case before Judge Patricia Banks, Law Division, Jury Section, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. On October 27, 2006, the jury reached a verdict finding that the Defendant, Matrex Exhibits, Inc. owed the Plaintiff more than $55,000 in commissions. Prange v. Matrex Exhibits, Inc.

In June 2006, Schwartz and Betsy Pawlicki of Katz Friedman, represented the plaintiff in a jury trial before Judge Milton Shadur in federal court. The case concerned an overtime retaliation claim.

The opportunities for trials in civil cases are infrequent. Mr. Schwartz tried two cases in 2000 and two cases in 2002:

1) Raymond Hugley v. The Art Institute of Chicago, et al., No. 98 L 8352 is a workplace defamation case. The Art Institute's former locksmith, asserted that he was discharged after he was falsely accused by a security guard of making a death threat against another employee. A copy of the Hugley complaint is available on-line. Hugley was tried before Judge James P. Flannery, Jr., Law Division, Jury Section, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. On January 26, 2000 the jury reached a verdict of $116,470 against The Art Institute of Chicago and the security guard who made the false statement. $41,470 was stipulated as special damages for net back pay loss. $75,000 was awarded as general damages for personal humiliation, embarrassment, injury to reputation and standing in the community, mental suffering, and anguish and anxiety. The judgment included a stipulation that plaintiff received credit to his pension from the date of his termination through January 2000.

2) Igram v. Page, No. 98 C 8337, a copyright case in March 2000 before Judge Lindberg in federal district court in Chicago.

Mr. Schwartz tried two cases in 2001. Click here for more on one of those cases.

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