Practice resources

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Business & Work Resources
Current job or employer issues
(12 resources)
Helping clients with wage and non-wage garnishments
Approaches to take when defending wage and non-wage garnishments.
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Exceptions for BAIIDs - MDDPs
Exceptions to the BAIID requirement for MDDP applicants.
Lawyer Manuals
Labor law: Representation and collective-bargaining matters
Guide to collective-bargaining issues. Includes: National Labor Relations Act, NLRA board jurisdiction, negotiations, enforcement, and more. 2021 edition.
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Conducting the Employment Practices Audit
Manual on how to hire, manage, and terminate employees. 2023 edition
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Workers with health or disability issues
(33 resources)
Understanding your legal medical rights for mental health
Information for people who get Mental Health and Developmental Disability services about your legal medical rights.
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SSI and SSDI overpayments and appeals
This article for attorneys explains overpayments, Notices of Overpayment, SSA's appeals process, and SSA's options for collecting overpayment.
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Helping clients with auto accidents
An article for attorneys that gives information about gathering facts in an accident, court rules, damages and auto insurance requirements.
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Helping someone with a disability find work
Explains the Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services program that helps people with disabilities find work.
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Unemployment benefits
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Claimant's rights to unemployment benefits
Guide to issues on determining eligibility and helping a claimant obtain unemployment insurance benefits in Illinois.
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Former job or employer issues
(3 resources)
Conducting the Employment Practices Audit
Manual on how to hire, manage, and terminate employees. 2023 edition
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Employment Termination: Employer Obligations and Workplace Considerations
Handbook on the challenges inherent in employment termination issues. 2018 Edition
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Labor and Employment Issues in Transactions, Business Restructuring, and Workforce Reductions
A practical guide for dealing with constantly changing labor and employment matters, such as reductions in force, alternatives to involuntary employment terminations, bankruptcy. 2022 Edition
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Military service, active-duty or veteran issues
(1 resources)
Military Service and the Law
Essential guide about divorce and custody matters pertaining to service members, veterans’ benefits, and employment and reemployment rights for veterans. 2022 edition
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Farm worker issues
(3 resources)
Labor law: Representation and collective-bargaining matters
Guide to collective-bargaining issues. Includes: National Labor Relations Act, NLRA board jurisdiction, negotiations, enforcement, and more. 2021 edition.
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Farming Law (Illinois): Environmental, Drainage, and Wind Farms Issues
Manual on farming law, including information on animal feeding operations, wetlands, open burning, and odor issues. 2020 edition.
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Farming law in Illinois: property issues
Manual on farming law, including land trusts, farm leaseholds, life estates, and leases. 2022 edition
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Discrimination of an employee
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School law: Personnel and student issues
Manual on employee and student rights in public schools including employee dismissal, suspension and more. 2021 edition
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Causes of action: Employment actions
Explains causes of action for employment-based discrimination claims. Covers: discrimination actions, retaliatory discharge, workers' compensation, and employer negligence. 2021 edition.
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Conducting the Employment Practices Audit
Manual on how to hire, manage, and terminate employees. 2023 edition
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Employment Termination: Employer Obligations and Workplace Considerations
Handbook on the challenges inherent in employment termination issues. 2018 Edition
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A work-related injury (workers' compensation)
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Workers' Compensation Practice
Explains workers' compensation law including compensable claims, coverage, benefits, emotional injuries, and filing. 2023 edition
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Employment Discrimination: Practice and Procedure
This comprehensive guide to practice and procedure in employment discrimination cases in state and federal tribunals also includes editable forms. 2022 Edition.
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Elements of Illinois Law: Workers' Compensation
Manual on workers' compensation, including sections on scope, the purpose of Workers' Compensation Act, and compensable claims. 2023 edition
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Labor and Employment Issues in Transactions, Business Restructuring, and Workforce Reductions
A practical guide for dealing with constantly changing labor and employment matters, such as reductions in force, alternatives to involuntary employment terminations, bankruptcy. 2022 Edition
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Discrimination of a customer by a business or agency
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Conducting the Employment Practices Audit
Manual on how to hire, manage, and terminate employees. 2023 edition
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Setting up or running a nonprofit organization
(2 resources)
Commercial landlord-tenant practice
About retail, industrial leases, subleases, mortgages, eminent domain, mechanics liens, and tenant and landlord duties. 2023 edition
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Not-for-profit corporations
Manual on not-for-profit corporations including, set-up, maintenance, and dissolution. 2021 edition
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Owning or running a business
(18 resources)
Commercial and professional liability insurance
Guide to commercial and professional liability insurance: coverage, claims-made issues, forms overview, liability and occurrence issues, duty to defend, exclusion by risk, and more. 2023 edition.
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Conducting the Employment Practices Audit
Manual on how to hire, manage, and terminate employees. 2023 edition
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Commercial Real Estate: Financing and Transactional Issues
Manual on issues related to commercial real estate transactions. 2021 Edition
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S Corporations
A practical guide for attorneys with issues that arise when forming and utilizing an S corporation. 2022 Edition
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Job applications and interviews
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Employment Termination: Employer Obligations and Workplace Considerations
Handbook on the challenges inherent in employment termination issues. 2018 Edition
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Unions
(4 resources)
Labor law: Representation and collective-bargaining matters
Guide to collective-bargaining issues. Includes: National Labor Relations Act, NLRA board jurisdiction, negotiations, enforcement, and more. 2021 edition.
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Employment Termination: Procedures, Grounds, and Challenges
Federal and state regulations; contractual exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine; employer record-keeping responsibilities; investigation, testing, and privacy of employees; 2018 Edition.
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Labor law: unfair labor practices
Discusses federal and state laws on unfair labor practice: employee committees, employee rights, duty of fair representation, unfair union practices, strikes, and more. 2021 edition
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Labor and Employment Issues in Transactions, Business Restructuring, and Workforce Reductions
A practical guide for dealing with constantly changing labor and employment matters, such as reductions in force, alternatives to involuntary employment terminations, bankruptcy. 2022 Edition
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Other business and work issues
(10 resources)
Getting a state ID
Diane O'Connell of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless goes over the importance of having a state ID, and how to get one in Illinois.
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Causes of action: Contract and business disputes
Explains common grounds for contract disputes with businesses. Includes: action for debt, breach of contract, specific performance, breach of warranty, shareholder derivative suit, etc. 2021 edition
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Intellectual property law
Manual providing solutions to patents, copyrights, trademarks, antitrust, licensing, e-commerce, and cyberspace. 2021 edition
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Contract law
Explains contract law for attorneys including performance, modification and breach of contract. 2023 edition
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