Todd A. Rowden

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Todd serves as a Vice-Chair of the Business Litigation Practice Group and heads the Group's Chicago office practice. He handles complex litigation matters, jury and bench trials and appeals in state and federal courts. His cases include complex commercial litigation disputes involving financial services, real estate, commercial loan enforcement cases including UCC sales, replevin actions and commercial foreclosure cases, business torts including deceptive business practice and fraud claims, Uniform Commercial Code, restrictive covenants, trade secrets actions, injunctions, class action defense, title insurance litigation and complex injury cases.

He represents some of the largest financial services corporations, manufacturers and service companies in the country. Todd also represents educational service companies, real estate developers and small businesses with business disputes and strategic business dispute resolution including through early mediation and arbitration.

He has been listed in the 2011 and 2010 editions of Chambers USA for Litigation: General Commercial - Illinois. Todd was also named to the Law Bulletin Publishing Company's prestigious "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch," 2003 edition. Todd was a member of the Rotary Club of Palatine where he served as President for the 2007-08 term. He was a baseball coach with the Palatine Youth Baseball teams for 13 years, since 1999. Todd is a Judge Coordinator for the Palatine Police Department’s Peer Jury Program, a community program designed to give youth offenders a "second chance." The Palatine Peer Jury Program was featured on Fox News-Chicago in March, 2009.

ABA: (Member, Torts & Insurance Committee; Litigation Committee)
Defense Research Institute
Illinois State Bar Association

American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Citibank, N.A., 543 F.3d 907 (7th Cir. 2008,) (cert. denied, 129 S.Ct. 1679 (2009))

Mehta v. Shah, 113 Fed.Appx. 165 (7th Cir. 2004)

General Electric Capital Corp. v. Lease Resolution Corp., 128 F.2d 1074 (7th Cir. 1997)

Athey Products Corp. v. Harris Bank Roselle, 89 F.3d 430 (7th Cir. 1996)

Board of Trustees of Community College Dist. No. 508, County of Cook v. Coopers & Lybrand, 208 Ill.2d 259 (Ill. 2003)

Tarsitano ex rel. Township of High School Dist. 211 v. Board of Educ. of Tp. of High School Dist. 211, 385 Ill.App.3d 868 (Ill.App. 1 Dist. 2008)

White v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 368 Ill.App.3d 278 (Ill.App. 1 Dist. 2006)

Hasek v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 319 Ill.App.3d 780 (Ill.App. 1 Dist. 2002)

Skyline Intern. Development v. Citibank, F.S.B., 302 Ill.App.3d 79 (Ill.App. 1 Dist. 1998)

American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Citibank, F.S.B., 623 F.Supp.2d 953 (N.D.Ill. 2009)

Joseph Stephens & Co., Inc. v. Cikanek v. Citibank, 588 F.Supp.2d 870 (N.D.Ill 2008)

LaSalle Bank Nat'l Assoc. v. Paramont Properties, 588 F.Supp.2d 840 (N.D.Ill. 2008)

National Accident Ins. Underwriters, Inc. v. Citibank, F.S.B., 533 F.Supp.2d 784 (N.D.Ill. 2007)

Portman v. Andrews, 249 F.R.D. 279 (N.D.Ill. 2007)

National Accident Ins. Underwriters, Inc. v. Citibank, F.S.B., 333 F.Supp.2d 720 (N.D.Ill. 2004)

Pactiv Corp. v. Menasha Corp., 261 F.Supp.2d 1009 (N.D.Ill. 2003)

National Accident Ins. Underwriters, Inc. v. Citibank, F.S.B., 243 F.Supp.2d 769 (N.D.Ill. 2003)

ChoiceParts, LLC v. General Motors Corp., 203 F.Supp.3d 905 (N.D.Ill 2002)

Mudd-Lyman Sales and Service Corp. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 236 F.Supp.2d 907 (N.D.Ill. 2002)

Dominguez v. Alliance Mortg. Co., 226 F.Supp.2d 907 (N.D.Ill. 2002)

National Accident Ins. Underwriters, Inc. v. Citibank, F.S.B., 243 F.Supp.2d 763 (N.D.Ill. 2002)

National Accident Ins. Underwriters, Inc. v. Citibank, F.S.B., 243 F.Supp.2d 767 (N.D.Ill. 2002)

Winterstein v. CrossCheck, Inc., 149 F.Supp.2d 466 (N.D.Ill. 2001)

Dougherty v. Akzo Nobel Salt, Inc., 47 F.Supp.2d 989 (N.D.Ill. 1999)

Garbie v. Chrysler Corp., 8 F.Supp.2 814 (N.D.Ill. 1998)

Symons Corp. v. Southern Forming and Supply Inc., 954 F.Supp. 184 (N.D.Ill. 1997)

Athey Products Corp. v. Harris Bank Roselle, 901 F.Supp. 1355 (N.D.Ill. 1995)

Rotary Club of Palatine, 2003-2010: (Secretary; Sergeant-At-Arms; President-elect; President; Past-President; Board Member)
Palatine Police Peer Jury Judge Administrator: (2006-Present)
Coach, Palatine Youth Baseball: (1999-2012)

2011 and 2010 editions of Chambers USA for Litigation: General Commercial-Illinois

Selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers - Business Litigation, 2012 - 2008, 2006, and 2005

40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch, 2003

"Bank as Check Payee - The Risks," Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (March 14, 2012)

"Navigating Your Business Through the Home Affordable Modification Program ('HAMP')" Presented to CitiMortgage, Inc. Consumer Litigation Group, O’Fallon, Missouri (October 9, 2012)

"Overview of 2012 Financial Scams and Trends - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Update," Association of Financial Crimes Investigators ((January 16, 2013))

"Use of Receivers to Sell Foreclosure Properties - Real Estate Litigation," 85-93 Aspatore Books from Thomson Reuters Westlaw (2012)(co-authored with David B. Altman)