Litigation beyond the Commission.

Municipal and public-entity defense

Prior public-entity work includes the City of Chicago, the City of Harvey, and the City of Markham — workers’ compensation, premises liability, and federal matters — including summary judgments won for the City of Harvey in premises-liability cases on more than one occasion. A public-entity file rarely stays in one lane: department operations, personnel records, FOIA, indemnity, budget authority, and several decision-makers can all bear on the same matter, and the firm coordinates the law department, the risk team, the department witnesses, and the carrier or TPA around one record.

Federal civil rights and employment

Maimonis has defended police officers, police departments, and municipalities in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois — excessive force, false arrest, and related claims — together with employment-discrimination, retaliation, and labor matters for public employers. She has drafted, argued, and prevailed on motions for summary judgment in federal court and second-chaired federal jury trials.

EEOC and employment

Position statements are written as if the charge will become a lawsuit, because it may: decision-makers identified, records preserved, comparators reviewed, the narrative accurate and supportable. When matters proceed, the work is pleadings, discovery, depositions, dispositive motions, damages analysis, and trial preparation.

Insurance and civil defense

Premises, auto, personal-injury, and employer-liability defense for insureds and self-insureds, organized around three questions: what duty is actually alleged, what evidence proves or defeats breach and causation, and what damages the medical and economic record supports. Homeowners’ association disputes — governing documents, board authority, enforcement, assessments — are handled with the same discipline.

Subrogation, Section 5(b), and third-party actions

When a compensable injury produces a third-party case, the firm protects and collects the Section 5(b) lien — intervening in the employee’s action where necessary — and defends employers brought into that case on contribution claims. Two examples are on the Representative Work page: a lien recovery of $42,573.63 from a $60,000 third-party settlement after a recommended waiver was refused, and $42,000 recovered under Section 5(b) for an employer defended against a contribution claim.

Dispositive motions

A summary-judgment motion begins during discovery. Written discovery, requests to admit, and depositions are planned backward from the issue the court may decide, so the statement of material facts is supported by admissible record citations and leaves no genuine dispute on the controlling question.

Every matter is evaluated on its facts, its forum, and the decision the client needs to make. contact@maimonislaw.com

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