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| Practice Areas | Professional Liability; Municipal Liability; Class Action Defense; Commercial Litigation; General Liability Defense; Civil Rights Defense; Public Law; Professional Liability Defense; Products Liability Defense; Mediation | | | University | DePaul University (B.S., 1976; Beta Alpha Psi); Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Mediation Training, 2005 | | | Law School | Loyola University Chicago College of Law, J.D., 1979 | | | Admitted | 1979, 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 | |
| Memberships | Illinois 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. | | | Born | Chicago, Illinois, May 23, 1954 | | | Biography | Author, "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. | | | ISLN | 904288078 | |
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An "Old School" Approach to Requests for Forensic Imaging of ComputersSteven 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 InformationSteven 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...
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