On April 11, 2011, Mandell Menkes attorneys obtained a dismissal of a counterclaim filed against its client, a banking institution, in a foreclosure action pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The Defendant first appeared in the foreclosure case in September 2010 and filed an answer which he later amended to include 12 affirmative defenses and a 7 count counterclaim. Our attorneys successfully moved to dismiss all of the defenses and counterclaims.