upheld the 'blue-penciling' of contracts by trial courts”); McRand, Inc. v. Van Beelen, 138 Ill.App.3d 1045, 93 Ill.Dec. 471, 480, 486 N.E.2d 1306, 1315 (1985). 9 . To be sure, employers who provide professional services — such as lawyers and accountants— are more likely to have a near-permanent relationship with their clients, as opposed to employers who sell non-unique goods. See Springfield Rare Coin Galleries, Inc. v. Mileham, 250 Ill. App.3d 922, 189 Ill.Dec. 511, 512-13, 620 N.E.2d 479, 488-89 (1993). Nonetheless, simply because Loewen provides professional-like services does not necessarily demonstrate that it has a near-permanent relationship with its customers. See Williams & Montgomery, Ltd. v. Stellato, 195 Ill.App.3d 544, 142 Ill.Dec. 359, 366, 552 N.E.2d 1100, 1107 (1990)
holding that insurance defense law firm did not have nearpermanent relationship with its clients holding that a suspended attorney should not be permitted to have contact with clients holding that a law firm receiving funds for a client was not an initial transferee because the firms role with respect to the received money was to accept the funds in settlement of its clients case deposit the money in trust keep as fees only what the the clients agreed to and pay the rest to the bank on behalf of the clients in satisfaction of their loan holding that a law firm could intervene in a former clients action to protect its interest in its contingency fee holding that disbarment was proper where the attorney misappropriated payments from clients of his firm for his own use and took steps to conceal his conduct from his firm