Practice Areas - Civil Litigation
- Business Law
- Commercial Law
- Arbitration
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- Chancery and Equity
- Administrative Law
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 618-242-0246
Fax: 618-242-1170
http://www.thesharplawfirmpc.com
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| Mailing Address | 105 North MainP.O. Box 906, Benton, Illinois, 62812 |
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| University | University of Illinois, B.S., with honors, 1970 |
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| Law School | DePaul University, J.D., with honors, 1979 |
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| Admitted | 1979, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1981, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1983, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois; 2001, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois |
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| Memberships | Jefferson County Bar Association; Illinois State Bar Association; American Bar Association. |
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| Born | Abilene, Kansas, October 13, 1948 |
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| Biography | Author: "Inadvertent Waiver" of Evidentiary Privileges: Can Reformulating the Question Lead to More Sensible Decisions?" 19 S. Illinois Univ. L. J. 263 (1995); "Business Expansion Through Asset Acquisition: Some Problems Posed By Product Liability Doctrines," 77 Ill. B. J. 492 (1989); "White Knights, Pre-Nuptial Confidences and the Morning After: The Effect of Transaction-Related Disclosures on the Attorney-Client and Related Privileges," 5 DePaul Bus. L. J. 59 (1992-1993); "Waiver of Evidentiary Privilege by Inadvertent Disclosure-State Law," 51 A.L.R. 5th 603 (1997); "Waiver of Evidentiary Privilege by Inadvertent Disclosure-Federal Law," 159 A.L.R. Fed. 153 (2000); "Long Arms and Foreign Pockets: Can Multinational Financial Organizations Be Used To Subject Alien Defendants to the Enforcement of Illinois Judgments?" Chi. Bar Assn. Record 24 (Sept. 1990); "Assignments of Wages in Illinois: Pitfalls for Employer Businesses," 14 DePaul Bus. L. J. 21 (2001). Lecturer: Pretrial Civil Litigation, DePaul University College of Law (1990-1991); Debt Collection in Illinois, National Business Institute, Schaumburg, IL (2004); Important Issues for Litigation Under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act, Southern Illinois Bankers Seminar (2005). Partner, 1986-1990, Associate, 1979-1986, Mayer, Brown & Platt.
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| Reported Cases | Noyola v. Board of Ed. of City of Chicago, 179 Ill.2d 121, 688 N.E.2d 81 (1997); In re Fine Paper Antitrust Litigation, 685 F.2d 810 (3rd Cir. 1983); Grant v. Board of Ed. of City of Chicago, 282 Ill.App.3d 1011, 668 N.E.2d 1188 (1996); Stewart v. EGNEP (Pty) Limited, 581 F.Supp. 788 (C.D. Ill. 1983); Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Aaron Lincoln-Mercury, Inc., 563 F.Supp. 1108 (N.D.Ill. 1983); Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Aaron Lincoln-Mercury, Inc., 563 F.Supp. 1118 (N.D.Ill. 1983); In re Torres, 191 B.R. 735 (Bankr. N.D.Ill. 1996); Tai Hospitality, Inc. v. Khan, 2006 WL 44184 (S.D.Ill. 2006); Crews v. City of Mt. Vernon, 2007 WL 2028190 (S.D. Ill. 2007); Crews v. City of Mt. Vernon, 2007 WL 1521495 (S.D. Ill. 2007); Crews v. City of Mt. Vernon, 2007 WL 1521498 (S.D. Ill. 2007); Kissner v. Stephenson, 2006 WL 3314477 (S.D. Ill. 2006); Crews v. City of Mt. Vernon, 2008 WL 2224898 (S.D. Ill. 2008); J. Wilderman Autoplex Corp. v. Norton, 2009 WL 1230016 (S.D. Ill. 2009); Finch v. Finch, 2009 WL 310776 (S.D. Ill. 2009); Eggmann v. Myers, 2009 WL 1098677 (S.D. Ill. 2009); Crews v. City of Mt. Vernon, 567 F.3d 860 (7th Cir. 2009); J. Wilderman Autoplex Corp. v. Norton, 2011 WL 52600 (S.D. Ill. 2011); In re Southcreek Dev., LLC, 2010 WL 4683607 (C.D. Ill. 2010); In re EDG Holdings, Inc., 438 B.R. 154 (Bankr. S.D. Ill. 2010); J. Wilderman Autoplex Corp. v. Norton, 2010 WL 2925965 (S.D. Ill. 2010). |
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| ISLN | 906303571 |
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