If you’re not careful, pleading mutually exclusive alternative facts can result in damning judicial admissions, self-defeating claims, or seriously impaired credibility. 

Constitutional conflicts with domestic violence orders of protection and FOID cardholders.

Process servers and cases of mistaken identity.

Pleadings often set off a flurry of motions. But what motions, if any, are best employed in response to affirmative defenses?

The Illinois Code of Civil Procedure allows for service of process on "any agent" of a corporate defendant. But for plaintiffs, determining which employees are "agents" is not as simple as it may seem.