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Steven M. Puiszis: Lawyer with Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Steven M. Puiszis

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Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
222 North LaSalle Street, Suite 300
Chicago, Illinois  60601-1081
(Cook Co.)

Telephone: 312-704-3243
Fax: 312-704-3001
http://www.hinshawlaw.com



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Practice AreasProfessional Liability; Municipal Liability; Class Action Defense; Commercial Litigation; General Liability Defense; Civil Rights Defense; Public Law; Professional Liability Defense; Products Liability Defense; Mediation
 
UniversityDePaul University (B.S., 1976; Beta Alpha Psi); Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Mediation Training, 2005
 
Law SchoolLoyola University Chicago College of Law, J.D., 1979
 
Admitted1979, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1983, Trial Bar; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; 1999, U.S. Supreme Court
 
MembershipsIllinois State Bar Association; Illinois Association of Defense Trial Council (Member, Board of Directors, 1995—; President, 2006); Defense Research Institute; Association of Defense Trial Attorneys; Society of Trial Lawyers.
 
BornChicago, Illinois, May 23, 1954
 
BiographyAuthor, "Illinois Municipal Tort Liability," 1st Ed. (Michie) 1993; 2d ed. Lexis Publishing (formerly Mathew Bender) 2001, with yearly annual cumulative supplements. Certified Mediator, Annexed Major Case Civil Mediation Program, Cook County Court.
 
ISLN904288078
 

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An "Old School" Approach to Requests for Forensic Imaging of Computers
Steven M. Puiszis, September 15, 2009
Given the seemingly ever-growing complexity of computer systems, an "old-school" approach may be helpful when addressing the issues presented by a request to have a forensic image made of your client's computers. By "old school," we are not referring to the 2003 movie by the...

Conundrum of Preserving Backup Tapes and Inaccessible Sources of Information
Steven M. Puiszis, June 3, 2009
By now, any attorney worth his or her salt knows that the federal rules have set up a two-tier system for the discovery of electronically stored information ("ESI"). Under Rule 26(b)(2)(B), a party need not produce ESI from sources that it "identifies as not reasonably accessible...

Default Judgment Entered As a Sanction for Spoliation and Deliberate Withholding of ESI
Steven M. Puiszis, June 3, 2009
You know things are bad when the lawyers withdraw. In MeccaTech (MTI), the magistrate judge observed: "Misconduct of this magnitude is a rare occurrence." It was determined through discovery that one of the defendants employed a consultant to intentionally erase items from his computer...



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