Add to ORKGIn Lawlor v. North American Corporation of Illinois, 2012, IL 112530, the Illinois Supreme Court first recognized the intentional tort of intrusion upon seclusion. It then applied the tort in favor of a former employee against a former employer whose agents deceitfully investigated the employee in contemplation of future civil litigation. In Lawlor, the employer’s lawyer was also involved in the investigation. Under certain circumstances, under the Lawlor rationale, that lawyer could also be liable in tort to the former employee. Lawyer liability after Lawlor could be founded on either the intentional or unintentional acts of either the lawyer or the lawyer’s agent. Liability might fail, however, if there was a privacy waiver. The circumsta...
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In both federal and state courts in the United States, there are significant civil procedure, profes...
In this bench memo, the high court is asked to decide two issues: whether the information disseminat...
Effective January 1, 2013, two new Illinois Supreme Court rules clarify and limit the waiver of the ...
Big data has affected American life and business in a variety of ways—inspiring both technological d...
The modern workplace requires that employers have access to a great deal of information about their ...
The focus of this Article is on the possibility that a lawyer informally seeking evidence about an e...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
Plaintiff disputed the debt which the defendant corporation asserted against her. Defendant made no ...
The tort of intrusion upon seclusion protects individuals from unwanted invasions into their persona...
Since its inception in Jones v Tsige, legal practitioners have struggled with the tort of intrusion ...
When questions are raised by a current client regarding an attorney’s representation of the client, ...
In this moot court competition bench memo, the Supreme Court the state of Marshall has to decide whe...
This Article suggests that fostering the development of attorney responsibility should be the centra...
In recent years, due both to hacks that have leaked the personal information of hundreds of millions...
Personal data is a cost of admission for much of modern life. Employers, tech companies, advertisers...
In both federal and state courts in the United States, there are significant civil procedure, profes...
In this bench memo, the high court is asked to decide two issues: whether the information disseminat...
Effective January 1, 2013, two new Illinois Supreme Court rules clarify and limit the waiver of the ...
Big data has affected American life and business in a variety of ways—inspiring both technological d...
The modern workplace requires that employers have access to a great deal of information about their ...
The focus of this Article is on the possibility that a lawyer informally seeking evidence about an e...