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Injury & Malpractice Legal Guide 2023
View Legal GuideBob Clifford is the founder of Clifford Law Offices, which concentrates its practice in helping victims of personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters. Bob regularly handles complex damage cases and routinely receives multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. Mr. Clifford has represented those injured or killed in every major commercial airline crash in the U.S. in the last three decades. C...
Kevin Conway is a trial lawyer involved in mass torts and catastrophic injury cases. He is known throughout the United States. He is a named partner at Cooney and Conway based in Chicago, Illinois. He is a Past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association . He is the recipient of the Leonard Ring Award for his significant contributions to victim's rights at trial and for advocating for the public's Right to Trial by Jury. He has been recognized by numerous local and national organizati...
William T. Gibbs is a partner at the Chicago personal injury and medical malpractice law firm of Corboy & Demetrio and concentrates his practice on cases arising from railroad negligence, automobile collisions, participation in sports, unsafe pharmaceuticals or medical devices, construction negligence, medical negligence, premises liability, product liability and aviation litigation. For more than a decade at Corboy & Demetrio, Bill has obtained numerous record-setting and multi-milli...
Kenneth T. Lumb joined Corboy & Demetrio as a Chicago personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer in 1995, after a tour of duty in the United States Army, and was named Partner in 2015. As a captain in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG Corps), Mr. Lumb served four years as the Medical Claims Judge Advocate at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. His duties at the Defense Department's largest medical facility included medical malpractice defense and hospital ...
Shannon McNulty is a Chicago personal injury lawyer and wrongful death attorney who comes to Clifford Law Offices with a wealth of professional experience from previous employment. Having worked for 10 years with the administration of the Chicago Police Department, she served as the Director of Administration in the Bureau of Operational Services. In this critical role, she was Chief of Staff to the First Deputy Superintendent. She not only became familiar with the inner workings of this comp...
As a trial lawyer, Jim’s philosophy on litigation is based on integrity and hard work for his clients. True to his roots as a prosecutor, Jim values fighting for justice on behalf of those people harmed and always acts with a sense of urgency to hold wrongdoers accountable. While at Clifford Law Offices, Jim has worked on behalf of many individuals and families whose lives have been forever impacted. As the youngest of six children born and raised on Chicago’s Southside, Jim learn...
Antonio M. Romanucci is a principal and partner in the Chicago based law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, where he focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injuries arising from medical malpractice, construction and other workplace accidents, nursing home negligence, aviation disasters and police misconduct cases, including civil rights actions. His passion for fighting on behalf of injured victims and their families was sparked when his best friend from high school suffered a fatal...
Biography: Todd A. Smith, Founding Partner, Smith LaCien LLP Making Access to Justice a Personal Crusade A native of Evanston, Ill., and with a law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Todd A. Smith, a founding partner with Brian LaCien of Smith LaCien LLP, has practiced law for over 40 years. He has won some of the largest multi-million dollar jury awards and settlements in serious personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases in Illinois. ...
Ed Wallace is a partner and founder at the Wallace Miller law firm. While Ed’s litigation and trial experience is diverse, his principal areas of practice are mass tort litigation, antitrust litigation, and other complex multiparty matters. He is one of the few lawyers in the country who has tried both a class action case as well as a federal mass tort bellwether case (which was also the first of its kind in the nation to go to verdict). He has served as court-appointed lead counsel, co...
Ashley Barriere is a Partner at Keller Postman LLC. Ashley’s vast knowledge of product liability multi-district litigation combined with her AmLaw25 defense-side experience allows Ashley to effectively litigate against behemoth corporations on behalf of her clients. At Keller Postman, Ashley focuses on significant product-liability matters. Ashley currently helps lead the firm’s litigation against the manufacturers and sellers of acetaminophen which causes autism spectrum disorder...
Jason DePauw is an Associate at Keller Postman LLC. Jason has litigated complex and catastrophic cases throughout his entire career on behalf of thousands of individuals who were killed or catastrophically injured, obtaining justice for his clients by holding the wrongdoers accountable for their harmful conduct. At Keller Postman, Jason represents individuals in various state and federal courts across the country, with a primary focus on defective product liability matters involving wrongful ...
Frank Dylewski is an Associate at Keller Postman LLC. He draws on over a decade of complex litigation experience to pursue justice and deliver positive outcomes for his clients. Frank has represented plaintiffs and defendants before state and federal courts and in arbitration tribunals across the country. Having prosecuted and defended a myriad of matters from case inception through settlement, trial, and appeal, he is a skilled litigator with experience in all phases and forms of dispute res...
Molly Condon Wells is a partner at Wallace Miller. Molly has dedicated her career to advocating for the rights of people harmed by large corporations. She has worked across the country on complex litigation involving punitive damages against national corporations and religious organizations. While in law school, Molly externed for the Honorable Lorna Propes in the Circuit Court of Cook County – Law Division. Since 2018, Molly has been honored as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and has also ...
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