Jeff Sniadanko protects clients in litigation involving intellectual property, secured transactions, contested guardianships, business torts, privacy rights, and complex commercial contract disputes.
Education
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 2018
B.A., Loyola University-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Political Science
Recognitions
CALI Excellence for the Future Award- Civil Procedure, Fall 2016
CALI Excellence for the Future Award- Legal Writing 4 – Civil Litigation, Spring 2018
Memberships
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association
State Bar Licenses
Illinois
Court Admissions
Supreme Court of Illinois
U.S. District Ct., N.D. of Illinois
- Assisted the family members of victims of a terrorist attack by preparing for trial in a paralegal capacity in the civil case brought in a U.S. federal court against a foreign state because it materially supported the terrorists.
- Participated in multiple bench and jury trials, often managing the case’s exhibits and serving as the technician presenting the case’s evidence electronically through courtroom audio-visual equipment.
- Obtained numerous summary judgments against defaulted borrowers for his banking institution clients.
- Defended objections to discovery and claims for appropriate limitations upon his clients’ written discovery responses and document productions from attempts to compel information and documents that were not appropriately discoverable.
- Protected his financial institution client’s employees from inappropriately noticed depositions.
- Pursued former employees for their theft and misappropriation of clients’ property and business interests.
- Defended banking institution client them from allegations they violated their customers’ consumer-rights.
- Assists Court-appointed trust institution clients and their guardianship wards by ascertaining information and developing causes of action against individuals determined to have wrongfully taken the ward’s property, and then litigates to collect the wrongfully taken property.
- Represents biological product manufacturer against allegations it violated its customers’ privacy rights and developed the successful argument that in a recent ruling withstood an assault on the legal sufficiency of the statutory exception that Jeff drafted as an affirmative defense to the privacy-rights law.