As readers of this blog likely know, this is a blog for landlords. Here at Reda | Ciprian | Magnone, LLC, we don’t represent tenants in residential eviction cases. We help residential landlords. We help lots of them. We talk to lots of them. We are usually glad to have a quick conversation to see if we are a match for an engagement at no cost. Unfortunately, these are unprecedented times and the laws affecting Illinois landlords
attorney’s fees
Billing for most Cook County evictions
Information on How We Charge for Evictions
As seasoned landlords know much too well, all Illinois evictions have two things in common. They are expensive and they take time. We do our best to keep our fees down and to move the process along as reasonably fast as the system will allow, but the realities of the inefficient system and the uncertainties of the other parties (ie. process servers, tenants, and judges) lead to landlords expending valuable time and money in an eviction.
Appellate court upholds attorney’s fee award for tenant CRLTO counterclaims
Tenants are entitled to attorney’s fees when they prevail in Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance claims
The Illinois First District Appellate Court issued an opinion in the case of Shadid v. Sims involving a case of first impression (ie. there was no existing published case law on this) regarding whether or not tenants who prevail in a counterclaim predicated upon CRLTO claims are entitled to recover their attorney’s fees.
How we bill for an eviction case
We get calls every day from landlords asking how we bill our eviction work. While we are always happy to spend five minutes on the phone free of charge with landlords to see if we are a match for an engagement, landlords can use that time more wisely learning about their case rather than our billing procedures by taking a look at our informational pamphlet on how we bill. Here is our pamphlet on the price of our eviction services for Cook County evictions (after the break).