As Bryan Lesser notes in his June Illinois Bar Journal article, “A Tender You Can’t Refuse,” federal courts in the U.S. Seventh Circuit have raised the bar on standing requirements and will continue to bring more consumer class actions to Illinois state courts. All the more reason, Lesser suggests, to be aware of some procedural quirks when bringing class actions in Illinois state court.

Among them, Lesser explains, is the process of tendering judgment to a named plaintiff in a putative class action, which can effectively resolve the entire lawsuit.

Read "A Tender You Can’t Refuse" in the June IBJ.