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Mark Goldenberg Honored as a 2025 St. Louis Titan 100

Titan CEO and headline sponsor Wipfli LLP are pleased to announce Mark C. Goldenberg, Managing Partner of Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C., as a 2025 St. Louis Titan 100. The Titan 100 program recognizes the Top 100 CEOs & C-level executives in St. Louis. They are the area’s most accomplished business leaders in their industry using criteria that includes demonstrating exceptional leadership, vision, and passion. Collectively the 2025 St. Louis Titan 100 and their companies employ over 42,148 individuals and generate over $77 billion in annual revenues. This year’s honorees will be published in a limited-edition Titan 100 book and profiled exclusively online. They will be honored at an awards ceremony on April 24, 2025, and have the opportunity to interact and connect multiple times throughout the year with their fellow Titans.

Mark Goldenberg is the founding and Managing Partner of Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C. The firm was organized in 1989 when three separate law firms merged. Goldenberg stated, “We are a leading commercial practice law firm in Southwestern Illinois and St. Louis Metropolitan Area. The firm has consistently prioritizes taking first class care of its clients, and our attorneys are supported by an incredible staff of extremely talented paraprofessionals who care about serving our clients with excellence.”

“It is humbling to have been named a Titan 100 honoree,” said Goldenberg, “and I look forward to meeting and networking with the other outstanding members in this group of creative and impactful professionals. The opportunity to work together and make a bigger impact on our community is an honor and a privilege I will not take for granted.”

“The Titan 100 are changing the way that business is done in St. Louis. These preeminent leaders have built a distinguished reputation that is unrivaled in their field. We proudly recognize the Titan 100 for their efforts to shape the future of the St. Louis business community. Their achievements create a profound impact that makes an extraordinary difference for their clients and employees across the nation,” says Jaime Zawmon, President of Titan CEO.

“On behalf of all the partners and associates at Wipfli, we congratulate all the Titan100 winners. It is an honor to recognize this diverse group of leaders in the St. Louis community. We appreciate the lasting impact each leader has made, and continues to make, in building organizations of significance both here in St. Louis and abroad. Your ingenuity and creativity have set you apart, and the honor of being seen as an industry Titan is richly deserved,” says Adam Herman Partner at Wipfli.

Mark Goldenberg will be honored at the Titan100 awards celebration on April 24, 2025 at The Factory. This unique cocktail-style awards event will gather 100 Titans of Industry and their guests for an evening unlike anything that exists in the St. Louis business community.

Class Action Settlements Approved for Employees Who Scanned Fingerprints at Illinois Trampoline Parks and Entertainment Centers

Payments of $718 and $598 to begin the week of October 7, 2024. Additional payment of $280 expected in December 2024. A federal court has granted final approval of three class action settlements in a case involving fingerprint scans of employees at several trampoline and entertainment parks in Illinois. Distributions of some settlement payments commence… Continue reading →

Payments of $718 and $598 to begin the week of October 7, 2024. Additional payment of $280 expected in December 2024.

A federal court has granted final approval of three class action settlements in a case involving fingerprint scans of employees at several trampoline and entertainment parks in Illinois. Distributions of some settlement payments commence this week, with an additional payment expected in December 2024.

The settlements mark the culmination of extensive litigation that began in 2019. The lawsuit alleged violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). Plaintiff, Madisyn Stauffer, on behalf of herself and others similarly situated, alleged that fingerprints were collected and stored without proper notice and consent in violation of BIPA by her employer, a Sky Zone trampoline park franchisee (Innovative Heights Fairview Heights, LLC), as well as by the franchisor (Sky Zone Franchise Group, LLC), and by the equipment/software vendor (Pathfinder Software, LLC).

After years of litigation, Plaintiff reached separate settlements with each defendant. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois approved the settlements and appointed attorneys Kevin P. Green, Richard S. Cornfeld, Daniel S. Levy, and Thomas C. Horscroft of Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C., as Class Counsel.

Pursuant to the settlements, people in the Innovative Heights Class will receive approximately $718; people in the Sky Zone Class will receive approximately $598; people in the Pathfinder Class will receive approximately $280. Some people are in multiple classes, meaning they could receive money from each settlement, totaling approximately $1,596. Distribution of the Innovative Heights and Sky Zone payments began the week of October 7, 2024. Distribution of the Pathfinder payments is expected to begin in December 2024.

“Class actions are often criticized as being ineffective or frivolous, but this case demonstrates their powerful impact. The class members here will see significant compensation—amounts of over $1,500 for some—which can truly have an impact,” said Kevin Green of Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C., one of the attorneys appointed as Class Counsel. “The settlements are a testament to our team’s hard work over the last five years and underscore the vital role of giving people in Illinois control over their biometric data in today’s world of rapidly-changing technology.”

The case is Stauffer v. Innovative Heights Fairview Heights, LLC, et al., Case No. 3:20-cv-00046-MAB (S.D. Ill.).

The attorneys at Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C. have extensive experience representing clients in complex class action litigation across the country. Please contact us today at (800) 782-8492.

Kevin Green Recognized Among “Top 100 St. Louisans to Know to Succeed in Business”

Kevin P. Green has been named to St. Louis Small Business Monthly’s 2024 “Top 100 St. Louisans to Know to Succeed in Business” list. The list, included in the April 2024 Issue, aims to recognize “the kind of people that will get you some of the needed perspective that is crucial to success.” Green has been… Continue reading →

Kevin P. Green has been named to St. Louis Small Business Monthly’s 2024 “Top 100 St. Louisans to Know to Succeed in Business” list. The list, included in the April 2024 Issue, aims to recognize “the kind of people that will get you some of the needed perspective that is crucial to success.”

Green has been representing businesses and business owners in St. Louis and Illinois in all aspects of complex litigation in state and federal court, through trial and appeal. His litigation practice includes various areas of the law including contract disputes, consumer protection law, labor and employment law, shareholder disputes, real estate disputes, and privacy law.

St. Louis Small Business Monthly, established in 1988, is a locally owned magazine focused on presidents, owners, CEOs, CFOs, and other top decision-makers from closely-held, privately and multi-generational family owned companies in the St. Louis region. To compile the list, a group of community leaders identified certain individuals and the magazine’s judges chose the 100 individuals based on their contributions to the area businesses and the overall business community.

Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli is trusted by clients to handle business transactions, complex business litigation, and class action defense cases. By providing a wealth of knowledge and strategic insight, our lawyers are able to assist clients in their most complex business transactions and disputes. To learn more, contact us today.

Court Grants Preliminary Approval of $1,175,000 BIPA Settlement

On March 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois granted preliminary approval of a $1,175,000 class action settlement with one of three defendants in the lawsuit called Stauffer v. Innovative Heights Fairview Heights, LLC, et al., Case No. 3:20-cv-00046-MAB (S.D. Ill.). Attorneys Kevin P. Green, Richard S. Cornfeld, Thomas… Continue reading →

On March 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois granted preliminary approval of a $1,175,000 class action settlement with one of three defendants in the lawsuit called Stauffer v. Innovative Heights Fairview Heights, LLC, et al., Case No. 3:20-cv-00046-MAB (S.D. Ill.). Attorneys Kevin P. Green, Richard S. Cornfeld, Thomas C. Horscroft, Daniel S. Levy, who have been litigating this case for nearly five years, were appointed as Class Counsel for the Settlement Class.

If you scanned your fingerprint into a computer system as part of your employment at a trampoline park or other similar entertainment center in Illinois between April 29, 2014 and March 20, 2024, you may be entitled to a payment from a class action settlement.

The Lawsuit is against multiple defendants asserting violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). One of the defendants is Pathfinder Software, LLC doing business as CenterEdge Software (“CenterEdge”). CenterEdge supplies businesses in Illinois with point-of-sale systems that include a fingerprint scanner that allows the businesses’ employees to do things like clock in or out of work. The lawsuit alleges CenterEdge violated BIPA by collecting and possessing fingerprint data from people who used a fingerprint to access CenterEdge systems in Illinois without providing the required disclosures and obtaining written consent.

CenterEdge has agreed to establish a Settlement Fund in the amount of $1,175,000 to resolve these claims against CenterEdge. The Court did not decide whether CenterEdge violated the law and CenterEdge denies any violation of the law.

The Settlement Class consists of two groups of people.

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GROUP 1

The first group consists of specific individuals who have been identified from information obtained in the Lawsuit as having scanned one or more fingers into a CenterEdge system in Illinois between April 29, 2014 and March 20, 2024. People in the first group do not need to file a claim or take any action to receive their settlement payment.

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GROUP 2

The second group consists of all persons who, at any time from April 29, 2014, through March 20, 2024, scanned one or more fingers into a CenterEdge system at any of the following Sky Zone Trampoline Park locations:

Sky Zone in Elmhurst, IL;
Sky Zone in Aurora, IL; or
Sky Zone in Joliet, IL.

People in the second group will need to file a claim to receive their settlement payment. In the claim form, people in this group will provide contact information and verify that, on at least one occasion between April 29, 2014 and March 20, 2024, they scanned their fingerprint at a Sky Zone Trampoline Park located in Elmhurst, Aurora, or Joliet, Illinois.

You can complete a claim form online. To complete and submit a claim form, click HERE. You will need the Claimant ID listed on the Notice you received.

You can also use the link above to print the claim form and return it to the Settlement Administrator.

The claim form must be electronically submitted or postmarked on or before June 24, 2024.

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Members of Group 1 and Group 2 can also opt-out or object to the Settlement. The deadline to do so is June 10, 2024.

The Court in charge of this case still has to decide whether to approve the settlement. Any settlement payments will only be distributed if the Court approves the settlement and after any appeals are resolved. The Court has scheduled a final approval hearing for August 21, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.

The exact number of people in the settlement class and the amount of money each person participating in the settlement will receive will not be known until a later date. At this time, we estimate that Settlement Class Participants will receive approximately $230 to $330 each.

If you are a member of the settlement class, please carefully review the information in the notice that was sent to you. You can also find information and a claim form, at the settlement website https://www.centeredgesettlement.com/.

GHA Webinar on Corporate Transparency Act

On April 10, 2024, GHA’s Tom Addis will present a webinar on the federal Corporate Transparency Act that went into effect on January 1, 2024. Tom has been working with existing and new clients in navigating the reporting requirements under the new law. Enacted in 2021, the CTA aims to combat illicit activity including tax fraud, money laundering, and financing for terrorism by capturing more ownership information for specific U.S. businesses operating in or accessing the country’s market. Under the new legislation, businesses that meet certain criteria must submit a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), providing details identifying individuals who are associated with the reporting company. The webinar is presented in conjunction with the Illinois Small Business Development Center for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville.

U.S. Department of Labor Revises Final Rule Regarding Independent Contractor Determination

In January of 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule revising its guidance for analyzing whether a worker constitutes an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act. How an individual is classified is important because employees, but not independent contractors, are entitled to certain protections under the FLSA, including… Continue reading →

The final rule, effective March 11, 2024, replaces the guidance that the Department of Labor issued in 2021, and makes the analysis more consistent with how courts have long determined this issue. Key factors in the analysis include whether the worker has an opportunity for profit or loss; investments made by the worker and employer; how permanent the work relationship is; the degree of control the company has over the person’s work; whether the work the person performs is integral to the company’s business; and the degree of the worker’s skill and initiative.

The Department of Labor’s 2021 rule put more emphasis on the opportunity for profit or loss and the degree of the employer’s control, an emphasis which is no longer present. The new guidance is expected to support more workers being deemed employees than under the 2021 rule.

Note that the federal guidance for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors may differ from state law. For example, under the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, a person who is permitted to work by a company is presumed to be an employee unless all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the individual has been and will continue to be free from control and direction over the performance of his work, both under his contract of service with his employer and in fact; and (2) the individual performs work which is either outside the usual course of business or is performed outside all of the places of business of the employer unless the employer is in the business of contracting with third parties for the placement of employees; and (3) the individual is in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business.

The attorneys at Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C. have extensive experience representing businesses and advising them of their legal obligations. Feel free to contact us today at (800) 782-8492 with any questions.

Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli Obtains Dismissal on Behalf of National Bank in Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Unlawful Overdraft Fees

At Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, we take pride in counseling financial institutions through each step of their business, transactional, and litigation needs. Recently, a national bank found itself named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit alleging it was improperly assessing overdraft fees on debit card transactions. These types of lawsuits have become common… Continue reading →

In this case, the bank hired GHA to defend it, and attorneys Tom Rosenfeld and Tom Horscroft, who have years of experience representing clients in complex commercial litigation and class actions, quickly got to work. After consulting with the bank and carefully reviewing the terms of the bank’s deposit agreement, the allegations in the lawsuit, and the case law, GHA prepared a motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s claims. GHA’s motion attacked multiple flaws in the plaintiff’s allegations and explained why the plaintiff’s claims should be defeated by, among other things, relevant language in the deposit agreement and by federal law.

The Court considered GHA’s written briefs accompanying the motion to dismiss, as well as the plaintiff’s opposition to the motion, which highlighted the many cases denying motions to dismiss lawsuits challenging overdraft fees. Mr. Horscroft also argued on behalf of the bank at the hearing on the motion. After considering the briefs and oral arguments of the parties, the Court issued its order granting the bank’s motion to dismiss the case.

For financial institutions looking for assistance navigating the complexities of banking law, business law, transactions, or litigation, Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C. has a team of skilled attorneys ready to help. Feel free to contact us with your legal needs today.

Goldenberg Heller to Open New Office in Clayton

Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, a full-service law firm based in Edwardsville, Ill., announced it will be opening a new office in Clayton, Missouri. The office will be located at 168 N. Meramec Avenue, Suite 101. “We are excited to have a new office in Clayton,” said partner and Clayton resident, Tom Rosenfeld. “Having an office… Continue reading →

“We are excited to have a new office in Clayton,” said partner and Clayton resident, Tom Rosenfeld. “Having an office in the heart of Clayton, the fastest growing community in the area, will allow us to better serve our many clients in the St. Louis area.”

The firm, which has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of business and commercial law, creditor’s rights, estate planning, class actions, intellectual property, asbestos litigation and personal injury, plans to utilize the new space at the end of the month.

For more information about Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, please visit www.goldenbergheller.com or call (800) 782-8492.

GHA Webinar on Illinois’ new Paid Leave for All Workers Act

On February 15, 2024, GHA’s Tom Addis will present a webinar on the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act that went into effect on January 1, 2024. The Paid Leave for All Workers Act allows workers to earn up to five (5) days of leave from work each year. Workers can use paid leave for any reason and employers cannot require workers to provide a basis for their time off request. Workers earn one (1) hour of paid leave for every 40 hours they work. Tom has counseled clients on compliance with the new law, including drafting policies to implement the requirements of the Act. The webinar is presented in conjunction with the Illinois Small Business Development Center for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville.