Russel G. Winick & Associates, P.C. has gained national prominence for unparalleled expertise in representing companies engaged in the laundry service industry throughout the United States over the past two decades. Its attorneys have handled over 5,000 laundry room matters, including over 500 lawsuits. Its clients have included the following companies:

• Advance Laundry Systems, Wheaton, Illinois
• Blue Kangaroo, Lombard, Illinois
• Coinmach Corporation (St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Louisville, South Bend, and Chicago divisions)
• Commercial Coin Laundry Systems, Chicago
• Continental Laundries, Pennsylvania
• Excalibur Laundries, Florida
• Family Pride Laundries, Lombard, Illinois
• Intercontinental Laundry Systems, LLC, Pennsylvania
• Interstate Laundries, Inc., Wisconsin
• National Coin Laundry, Ohio
• Whitmer/Vend-O-Mat, Indianapolis, Indiana

We represent large, mid-sized, and small companies, engaged in both the coin-operated "route" business and the laundromat businesses.

Our services have included the following:

• Quickly ending literally thousands of disputes with property owners and managers, frequently with just one letter or telephone call
• Analyzing problems, reviewing leases, and advising companies as to their best course of action, and the legal strength of their positions
• Preparing memos to companies on new ideas for best handling common or unusual issues
• Drafting state-of-the-art, frequently imitated leases, which maximize income, avoid costly problems, and enhance legal remedies
• Providing customized lease language to meet specific situations
• Conducting every type of laundry room litigation imaginable
• Educating and supervising attorneys across the country in laundry room lease cases
• Negotiating the most advantageous settlements possible

We have obtained published court decisions that created important legal precedents for our clients, including rulings that (1) upheld our argument that a notice of termination sent 6 days after the deadline imposed by a lease was invalid and unenforceable, (2) found that a lease's automatic renewal clause was not unconscionable, (3) declared that attempting to foreclose a known laundry room lease without giving the laundry company notice of the foreclosure proceeding would be unconstitutional, and (4) confirmed that a laundry room lease was a covenant that ran with the land, and bound successor owners of the property.

We can advise laundry companies on such issues as:

• What laundry companies should not say in their letters to property owners and managers
• Mandatory language for machine labels and laundry room wall signs
• Interpretation and construction of laundry room leases
• The notice of unrecorded leases conveyed by a laundry company's open possession of premises
• The illegality of "self help" evictions of laundry companies
• Damages recoverable in court for breaches of laundry room leases
• Little known ways to use right of first refusal clauses
• The right to maintain possession even after rejection of a lease in a bankruptcy case law regarding laundry room contracts being leases rather than licenses
• What to do when a lessor tells you to remove your machines for "laundry room remodeling"
• How to handle undocumented claims of new property ownership
• A lessor's duty to secure its laundry facilities
• Avoiding the dangers inherent in subordination agreements
• Laundry room leases
• Laundry room disputes
• Laundry room litigation

We believe we can give any laundry company a wealth of ideas for enhancing its routine operations, for avoiding problems, and for dealing with problems after they occur. We are frequently told that no one represents laundry companies as well as we do. The one thing we are certain of is that no other law firm enjoys this type of work as much as we do. Our job is to make your job easier and more profitable.

If you feel that our experience, skill, and enthusiasm might be of benefit to your company, then we would be pleased to hear from you. Feel free to contact Russel Winick at (630) 548-5800 at your convenience.

We serve Naperville, Wheaton, Lisle, Downers Grove, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lombard, Plainfield and surrounding communities in DuPage County, Will County, Kane County, and Cook county. We also serve laundry companies and coin operated route businesses across the US.