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Dedication.

With RDM, you’re not just another client on the roster. We represent you with unmatched attention to detail, focus, and precision from start to finish.

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Founded in 1996.

Our attorneys have decades of combined litigation experience, and our unique, in-depth approach delivers results for our clients.

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Whether you’ve just started to seek counsel or your trial is quickly approaching, we’ve got the people, skills, and ability to help you at any stage of your case.

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Our industry knowledge is second to none. RDM has deep, technical understanding of the industries we serve, and we bring that knowledge to bear in everything we do.

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RDM delivers outstanding service and nationwide coverage at Midwestern rates that the big firms can’t compete with.

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Ensuring Their Legacy Lives On

February will always be that sacred time of year when we reflect on and celebrate Black History. Thanks to the contributions and sacrifices of those that came before me, I got to enjoy a childhood that was, for the most part, insulated (no pun intended) from the ghosts of this country’s racist past. I was born in the 90s—over 30 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic March on Washington. I grew up in a military family, no less, so there was no shortage of diversity in the communities we lived in. I certainly wasn’t oblivious to the Civil Rights Movement—and my parents made darn sure I knew about it—but to say that I’d lived it, or even witnessed it with my own eyes, simply wouldn’t be true. Looking back on it, though, I realize that my childhood was a living testament to the dream Dr. King spoke of on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial all those years ago. It’s not something I take for granted, but as I grew into adolescence and adulthood, I had to come to terms with the inevitable conclusion that there is still much to do.

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Non-Compete Agreements: The FTC’s New Rules

The current landscape regarding the enforcement of non-compete agreements is about to get flipped on its head in the United States. Following President Biden’s July 2021 executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission to employ its statutory rulemaking authority “to curtail the unfair use of non-compete clauses and other clauses or agreements that may unfairly limit worker mobility,” on January 5, 2023, the FTC—in a profound exercise of its regulatory power—issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would have a sweeping effect on the enforcement of non-compete agreements.

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