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REMINDER! Mandatory Reporting Deadline under the Corporate Transparency Act
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Consumer Privacy Laws Include Neural Data: What Illinois Business Owners Need to Know
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Insurance Coverage for BIPA Violations: A Growing Challenge for Illinois Businesses
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Make Sure Non-Disclosure Agreements Don’t Stymie Whistleblowing
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Illinois Civil Rights Protection Goes High-Tech: Illinois Human Rights Act Expanded to Include AI Regulation
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Illinois BIPA Amendment Changes the Litigation Landscape
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Review Your Severance, Non-Disparagement, Confidentiality Clauses
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NOTE TO CHICAGO EMPLOYERS: New Chicago Paid-Leave Law Takes Effect 7.1.24
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Using AI to Create Content? Watch Out for Copyright Violations
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Using Generative AI in Business? Make Sure to Keep Your Secrets
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BIPA Amended to Limit Damages
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Non-Competes Now a Nonstarter
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Don’t Dirty Your Business’ Reputation by ‘AI-Washing’
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How Can Generative AI Assist Your Business?
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Real Estate Brokers’ Commissions Upended by Recent Settlement
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Corporate Transparency Act struck down as unconstitutional
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Employee or Freelancer? New Rules for Independent Contractors
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Going Through a Divorce? Don’t Forget to Disinherit Your Soon-to-be Ex
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Beware the Cryptocurrency Exchange Account
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Estate Planning Insights: The Widespread Impact of Wills
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Chicago Employers Required to Give 10 Days Paid Leave—Starting in Six Weeks
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When Partner Leaves Partnership, What are the Tax Implications?
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Employer Paying for Employees’ Transit Costs?
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Illinois now requires Long-Term Temps to be paid like Employees
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How Does Supreme Court Ruling on ‘Religious Reasons’ Impact Small Businesses?
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How Can You—and How Shouldn’t You—Use AI in the Hiring Process?
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Are Smart Contracts Smart for Your Business?
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NLRB Rules Most Employee Non-Competes Unenforceable
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How to Avoid Crypto-Scams
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Getting Paid in Cryptocurrency?
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Who will regulate AI?
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Changes Coming for Veteran Owned Businesses
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Can You Keep a (Trade) Secret?
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Looking ahead to 2023
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Limiting NDAs for Sexual Harassment
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Buyer of Nontraditional Legal Services Beware
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Family-Owned Business Succession—or Dissolution?
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How Often—and How—Do Family Businesses Survive Transition?
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On the Seventh Day, Employers Must Allow Rest
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What Would the ‘Workers’ Rights Amendment’ Mean for Your Business?
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Asimov’s Robot Cannot Hold a Patent
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If the Alex Jones Text Fiasco was in Illinois?
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State Retirement Plan Expands to Smaller Employers
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Chicago Adds Specifics—and Teeth—to Sexual Harassment Law
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Small Business Debt Relief
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Student Loan Repayment
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Metaverse Becoming a (Virtual) Reality
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What is a non-fungible token (NFT)?
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Data Management Key to Business Success
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Understanding the New CDC Guidelines
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‘Independent Contractor’ Might Be a Trojan Horse
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Do You Need a Business License in Illinois?
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Happy New Year? Legislation Impacting Small Businesses Takes Effect
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January is a good time to Start Your New Business
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Tax Liability Stemming From Online Sales
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You Might Need to Rework Your Non-Competes
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Electronic Will Signing, Remote Witnessing Made Permanently Available
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Starting a Business: What Can Your Law Firm Do for You?
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First Cannabis Litigation a Wafting Indication of What’s to Come
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Residential Eviction Update
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Considerations for Starting a Small Business, Part Two
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What to consider when Starting a Small Business, Part One
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Park Ridge Bar Loses Claims for Business Interruption Insurance Coverage
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Is It Time for Your Business to Drop the Mask?
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Emergency Rental Assistance for Landlords
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SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund
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What Can Small Businesses Do About the Maskless?
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Smaller Restaurants Alert – New Relief Funds Available
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New County Ordinance, Supreme Court Orders to Impact Landlord
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What Should—and Shouldn’t—Be in Your Workplace Vaccination Policy?
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Small Businesses Have New Federal Reporting Requirements
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Small Business Second PPP Loans & Grants
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Preparing for 2021
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Employers Can Require a COVID Vaccine
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Text Messaging Approved for Illinois Courts
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CoronaVirus Pandemic FAQs for Business and Property Owners
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Will Virtual Online Transactions Become a Reality?
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Digital Currency Gets Real
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Employers Need to Mask Up Against Lawsuits
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Illinois Requiring Employee Training on Sexual Harassment Prevention
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New Hoops for Landlords to Jump Through on Eviction Lawsuits
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SBA Ending Self-Certification for Women-Owned Small Businesses
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Will Commercial Real Estate Rebound?
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Going Incognito from Your Smartphone
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Trump’s Payroll Tax Deferment: Don’t Take the Bait
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Pandemic Survival Tips for Small Business Owners
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Entrepreneurs Should Examine Page Views for New Business Concept
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Businesses Should Re-examine Cyber Insurance Coverage due to COVID-19
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4th Amendment Protections for Digital Data Have Remained Modest
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New Illinois Law Says Essential Workers Can Claim Workers’ Comp for COVID-19
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Department of Housing Issues Rules on Tenant Evictions in Chicago
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Suggested COVID-Related Health, Safety Regs for Business Owners
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How Can Your Business Reopen Safely—On All Fronts?
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Tea Leaves Starting to Sprout for COVID’s Impact on Employment Law
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Rent Relief for Chicago Restaurant Ordered by Judge
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Some Employees Can Refuse to Report to Work Under New Chicago Ordinance
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Does Pritzker’s Order Vaccinate Health Workers from Liability?
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Could Reopening Businesses Be Held Liable for COVID-19 Infections?
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Expansion of Unemployment Under the CARES Act
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Does Your Cyber Insurance Protect Your Business While Working Remotely?
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Family and Medical Leave: Sick Leave Upgraded Through 2020
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Is an E-Signature valid in Illinois?
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Business Interruption Insurance and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Workplaces on Lockdown: How Should Employers Handle COVID-19?
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Financial Assistance to Small Businesses in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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After Health… Businesses Must Consider Legal & Economic Impacts of COVID-19
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#MeToo Could Affect Your Business, Too, Unless You’re Careful
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Illinois Dispensaries Need Federal Law Changed So Banks Don’t Just Say No
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Gimme 3 Steps to Starting an LLC
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Is Your Business Prepared for the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’
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Chicago Area Employers Should Review Their Payroll as the Overtime “Exempt” Salary Threshold Went Up on January 1
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Illinois Freedom to Work Act – Another Problem for Employers
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Tired of those RoboCalls?
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Should Gun Carrying Customers Be Welcomed – or Banned?
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Non-Compete Clauses just got tougher in Illinois
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Illinois Cannabis Laws and Property Ownership
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Illinois Suit Says E-Cigs are No Juul
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Expunging Old Marijuana Convictions
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Make Sure Your Website is ADA Compliant
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Chicago Business Lawyer answers the Question: Is Bitcoin the same as Blockchain?
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Is Obesity a Disability?
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Employers Need Permission to Collect Biometrics
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What Illinois Employers Need to Know About the New Illinois Cannabis Laws
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Do You Have the Right to Say No to Facial Scanning at the Airport?
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What Laws apply to the use of Drones?
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Are You Cyber-Covered?
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Should You Hire Workers With Criminal Backgrounds?
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Your Smartphone Knows Where You’ve Been …. and so do the police.
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Marijuana Policies in the Workplace
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Is Your Website ADA Compliant?
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Six Flags Biometrics Suit Should Raise Red Flags for Businesses
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The End of “Wholly Groundless Exception” in Arbitration Agreements
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Employee Expense Reimbursement Now Mandatory in Illinois
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Should Gun Carrying Customers Be Welcomed – or Banned?
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Estate Planning for your Digital Assets
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Eat (well), Drink (responsibly) and be (reasonably) Merry!
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Facebook Security Breach – Warning and Opportunity
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Dismissal of Stormy’s Defamation Suit Shifts Libel Law
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Independent Contractor or Employee?
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Do Illegal Immigrants have Employment Rights
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Sales Tax on Online Sales? Who is responsible to collect and pay the sales taxes?
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Driverless Cars Might Not Be Roadway-Ready Just Yet
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Are Cryptocurrencies a Safe Bet? Investigations Raise Questions
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Women Still Face Barriers in Discrimination, Harassment Suits
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How Should Employers Respond to Legal Pot?
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The Legal Quagmire of Cryptocurrency
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When Should Businesses Support Emotional Support Animals?
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Clear Terms for Automatic Renewal Leads to e-Harmony with Customers
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What’s with the Proposed Tipping Rule Change?
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Small Business are a Prime Target of Cyber Crime
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Illinois Biometric Law Keeping the Courts Busy
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Got Customers in the Europe? Better Get Familiar with GDPR!
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Alternative Dispute Resolution Goes Online
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Is Facial Recognition Technology an Invasion of Privacy?
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Small Businesses Should Shy Away from Bitcoin
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Holiday Cheer Could Lead to a Harassment Hangover
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What Does ‘Net Neutrality’ Mean to Small Businesses?
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Facial Recognition creates Privacy Concerns
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Illinois prohibits Non-Compete Agreements for Low Pay Employees
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Can Student Loans Ever Be Discharged?
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Big Woes for Zillo
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CYBER-SECURITY- A VITAL PRECAUTION
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Threats on Social Media: Are They Protected Free Speech?
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2016 Tax Bills Coming Soon: Here’s What You Can Expect
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Driverless Cars: The Future of Product Liability Litigation?
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Are Illinois Non-Compete Agreements Still Valid for Low-Level Employees?
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Equity Crowdfunding – The Future of Investing?
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CAUTION! WATCH OUT FOR THESE WAGE-AND-HOUR PITFALLS
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How We Operate Our Business is Changing
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Enjoying Your New Drone? Watch for Regulatory Changes
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NEW SICK-LEAVE LAWS ARRIVING SOON
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Blockchain and Chicago Businesses
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Cyberfunding
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Technology and the Changing of the Rules of Professional Conduct
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Dental Offices Must Comply With New Overtime Regulations
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Email Deletion Basics for Every Business Owner
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Ransomware: Small Business Owners Beware!
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Artificial Intelligence in Law
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Illinois’ Innovative New Crowdfunding Law Will Benefit Entrepreneurs
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For Whom the Bell Trolls: Supporting the “Innovation Bill” To Stop Patent Extortion
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Can You Record a Police Officer?
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Risky Business: Are You at Risk for Your Teen’s Party?
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Workplace Retaliation and Discrimination Claims: The Supreme Court clarifies the Standards Required
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Beware Corporate Compliance Scams Posing as the Illinois Secretary of State
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Managing Your Post-Mortem Facebook Legacy
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Fight Back Against Drive-By Lawsuits
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Pregnancy Rights Amendment Makes Good Business Sense
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Forced Arbitration: The Fine Print That Takes Away Your Rights
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What the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Means To Employers
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New Wage Rules for Home Care Workers
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Does Adrian Peterson Belong in the Rice Cooker?
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Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age?
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Protect Your Business with Non-Competes
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Rules of Engagement: The Return of the Ring
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GM: “Terrible Things Happened.”
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TANSTAAFL – Scareware: The Bane of Small Biz Owners
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Crowdfunding – Panacea or Pain?
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Bullying Doesn’t Stay Behind in the Locker Room
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EMPLOYEES – CHECK YOUR WEAPONS AT THE DOOR!
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Arbitration: Home Field Advantage for Big Business
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Fooling Around at Work
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2014 – Texting Takes a Backseat and Other New Laws Affecting Illinois Businesses in 2014
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The Lawyer Grinch
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Common Problems With Business Start Ups
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E-Signature on Contracts?
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Illinois Supreme Court “Likes” Amazon and “Unlikes” Illinois Businesses.
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Federal Courts Are Starting to Shut Down
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Can “We the People” Sue Congress?
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Is There Danger Adrift From Modern Day Pirates?
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Afforable Care Act
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Cell Phones Banned From Cars
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What Does DOMA Mean For Illinois Small Businesses?
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A-Rod and His Legal Hassels
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Government Gives Closer Look to Credit Card Processors
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Help on Corporate Filings – A scam to be avoided by small corporations
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Terminating Employees: From Whislteblowers to Implied Contracts
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What is the Best Tax Classification for Your Illinois LLC?
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New Standards for Retaliation and Discrimination Claims Against Small Business Owners in Illinois
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George “Geo” Bellas: Fighting for the rights of small business owners and their families in Illinois
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