Publications & News

Lillig & Thorsness, Ltd. partners Adrian Mendoza and Russ Custer prevailed on a motion to dismiss a claim of slander of title and a purported derivative action brought by the former owner of a commercial condominium unit in a Chicago landmark bui… Read More

Lillig & Thorsness, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Justin Prince has joined the firm as an associate. Mr. Prince concentrates his practice in the areas of lifetime and estate planning, estate and trust administration, and federal estate and gif… Read More

Lillig & Thorsness, Ltd. attorneys Greg Smith, Adrian Mendoza and Ed Sherman were called in to represent a hotel owner against foreclosure proceedings and the owner’s principals in connection with claims of liability for millions of dollars und… Read More

On April 9, 2018, Lillig & Thorsness, Ltd. appellate attorney Edward R. Sherman with the collaboration of transactional and tax partner David R. Stallter secured a reversal of a trial court’s order compelling a client’s broker to turn over th… Read More

Why would SYAs need estate planning? Think of SYAs – age bracket 18 to mid-20s: no spouse, no kids, no money (or not much). SYAs in college (and often beyond as SYAs get started), are in many ways adult children. This isn’t negative or demeaning,… Read More

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that it received 91,503 charges of workplace discrimination in fiscal year 2016. This is the second year in a row that the number of charges filed with EEOC has increased. Dur… Read More

Lillig & Thorsness, Ltd. attorneys Adrian Mendoza and Edward R. Sherman recently obtained a summary judgment ruling in the Circuit Court of Cook County in favor of a longstanding L&T client. The plaintiff filed suit claiming that its property… Read More

Lillig & Thorsness, Ltd. founding partner Marty Lillig has been awarded the title of Distinguished Counsellor by the Illinois State Bar Association. The title is conferred upon those attorneys who have more than fifty years of honorable service a… Read More