Beginning January 1, 2017, a new Illinois law will prohibit employers from requiring employees earning less than $13 per hour to sign a covenant not to compete. The new law, the "Illinois Freedom to Work Act" provides that any such agreement is void and illegal....
Gwinn v. Gwinn, 2016 IL App (2d) 150851 The Second District Appellate Court in Illinois has ruled that the gift provisions in a Marital/ Family Trust did not give the surviving Husband as trustee the discretion to make a large gift from the trust to his new wife. The...
Reid v. Getco, LLC. 2016 IL App (1st) 151801 The First District Appellate Court has ruled that provision in an employee agreement ostensibly designed to permit an employer to avoid paying post-termination payments to a terminated employee by waiving the enforcement...