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With the new year comes new challenges for Illinois employers, particularly those doing business in Cook County or the City of Chicago, where lawmakers enacted a new State law and two separate ordinances allowing workers in...

MWH Law Group congratulates firm partner Veronica Kirk and her team for obtaining a decisive defense verdict for a national, big-box retailer in a jury trial held recently in Polk County district court. In their premises...

MWH Law Group partner Veronica Kirk presented oral argument on October 26, 2023 to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in a special session at Drake Law School, Kirk’s alma mater. The Eighth Circuit had not held...

On October 5, 2023, the United States Court for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held, in Meadows v. NCR Corp., Nos. 21-3309 & 22-1383, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 26442 (Oct. 5, 2023), that to the extent an employer adopts...

Section 1983 of Chapter 42 of the United States Code authorizes redress for violations of constitutional and statutory rights by people acting under the authority of a governmental entity. It is not in itself a source of...