Wiretap Lawsuit Against Vrdolyak Law Group Advances to Trial

Vrdolyak Law Group LLC must defend against claims at trial that it violated federal and state laws by recording employees’ conversations and phone calls without their consent, a federal district court said.

A reasonable jury could conclude the law firm recorded the employees’ calls in a surreptitious manner within the meaning of the Illinois eavesdropping statute, Judge Georgia N. Alexakis of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said in a May 1 opinion partially denying the law firm’s motion for summary judgment.

And a jury could find the law firm violated the federal Wiretap Act and ...