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Managing Partner Blake Strautins Awarded the ALFN JPEG Picture the Future Award
[CHICAGO, IL, Thursday, November 18, 2021] Kluever Law Group, LLC a financial services industry law firm, announces that Managing Partner Blake Strautins has been awarded the American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN) Junior Professionals and Executive Group's (JPEG) highest honor, the Picture the Future award for 2021.
READ MORECook County Enters General Administrative Orders Ending All Foreclosure and Eviction Moratoriums
On October 7, 2021, the Presiding Judge of the Cook County Chancery Division entered General Administrative Order 2020-07 (GAO 2020-07), which, among other changes, allows for the immediate resumption of all residential foreclosure in their entirety. This includes cases previously stayed from moving to Judgment where a Covid Declaration response was received and sales on occupied properties. Also, COVID Declaration forms no longer need to be sent on any new foreclosure filings. GAO 2020-07 requires all Orders signed by Judge in each case to now include a future Court date, which will likely result in more required court appearances than we traditionally see in Cook County.
READ MORERecent Supreme Court Decision Reducing Foreclosure Costs
The Illinois Supreme Court recently found a provision of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure requiring plaintiffs to pay additional filing fees in residential foreclosure actions to be unconstitutional. The implications of this ruling are significant, as it means that the costs to file new foreclosures in Illinois will be reduced by as much as $550 per filing.
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