Stellato & Schwartz, Ltd. is pleased to announce the addition of two new associates, who are recent admittees to the Illinois Bar: Jack J. Casciato, a graduate of the University of The District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and Ryan H. Ouyang, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School. Mr. Casciato will be working in the Chicago office and Mr. Ouyang in the firm's Schaumburg office.
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February 17, 2012 |
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February 17, 2012 |
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Arnstein & Lehr LLP is pleased to announce that three ISBA members have been elevated to equity partner/partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
The following attorney has been elected to equity partner:
Thomas F. McGuire is a member of the firm’s Estate Planning and Tax Practice Groups in Chicago. His practice is concentrated in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration, and taxation. McGuire received his undergraduate degree and law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The following associates have been promoted to partner:
W. Toby Eveland is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group in Chicago. His practice focuses on business litigation, class action litigation and complex insurance disputes, in fields such as real estate, construction, higher education, risk management, professional liability, health care, employment, intellectual property, warranty, and condominium law. Eveland received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of North Alabama and his law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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February 9, 2012 |
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Jason P. Eckerly has been elected to shareholder status at Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.
Mr. Eckerly is an experienced litigator and trial counsel whose practice focuses on the defense of toxic tort, asbestos and general liability litigation. He serves on many of the firm’s national coordinating counsel teams, developing and coordinating the defense of large corporations across the country.
He is a 1998 graduate of Michigan State University and a 2002 graduate of DePaul University College of Law.
From its roots as a four-lawyer shop in Chicago just over 25 years ago, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., has grown to a law firm with approximately 150 lawyers and offices in Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Jersey City, New York and Philadelphia. To learn more about the firm, visit www.smsm.com.
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February 9, 2012 |
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The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Sarah E. Fanto has joined the Firm's Chicago office as an associate in the Intellectual Property Group.
Ms. Fanto has experience in preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications in the U.S. and abroad, advising clients in matters related to patentability, patent validity, and patent infringement, and drafting non-disclosure agreements, joint development agreements, and licensing agreements. Ms. Fanto also has experience prosecuting and enforcing Trademarks. During law school, Ms. Fanto served as a law clerk at the Chicago Legal Clinic where she prepared FOIA requests, researched the Clean Air Act and applicable Illinois statutes, and wrote opinion letters and memos to clients.
She earned her law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law and her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
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February 6, 2012 |
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Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP (“SugarFGH”), formerly known as Sugar & Felsenthal LLP, has added two name partners: tax partner, Adam J. Grais, and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights partner, Aaron L. Hammer. Douglas J. Antonio has also joined the firm as partner, bringing his extensive experience in taxation, real estate, affordable housing and community development matters. Attorneys joining the firm’s expanded bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice include Mark S. Melickian as counsel and associates Michael A. Brandess and Jack R. O’Connor.
“After 30 years of successfully building this firm with Steve Felsenthal, I am proud to have Aaron and Adam establish a springboard for our continued success over the next 30 years,” said founding partner Richard A. Sugar. “The energy and resourcefulness that these two talented attorneys bring to the firm’s clients will assure a continued high level of service in keeping with our firm’s traditions and values,” added Sugar.
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February 2, 2012 |
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The Chicago-based law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is pleased to announce the addition of attorneys Erik Jarmusz and Elizabeth Anne Thompson to the firm’s Chicago office.
With the opening of the firm’s new Milwaukee office, Arnstein & Lehr has 145 attorneys working across 10 offices throughout Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
Erik M. Jarmusz joins as an associate in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. He has significant real estate experience that includes commercial real estate, corporate transactions and office leasing.Jarmusz also has extensive experience negotiating leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants, and has also focused on general real estate transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, 1031 exchanges and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure. He received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago and his law degree, cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law. Previously, Jarmusz was an associate at Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona.
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February 1, 2012 |
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Foley & Mansfield is pleased to announce that Jacob Sawyer has been elected as partner. Jacob focuses his practice in the areas of products liability and toxic tort litigation, as well as construction and premises liability litigation. He represents manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, premises owners, and contractors defending claims alleging asbestos, benzene, and welding rod exposure.
Jacob received his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Illinois and Missouri bars, the Defense Research Institute, and the Chicago Bar Association.
Founded in 1989, Foley & Mansfield has grown to become one of the nation’s leading civil litigation law firms. Its attorneys serve clients ranging in size from multi-million dollar corporations to small businesses and their owners in the areas of commercial litigation, commercial finance and corporate transactions, construction law, employment litigation, medical malpractice defense, product liability, toxic tort and mass tort litigation. F&M is headquartered in Minneapolis and has additional offices in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Oakland, Miami, Seattle and New York. To learn more, visit the firm’s web site at www.foleymansfield.com.
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February 1, 2012 |
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The law firm of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen announces that five attorneys have become partners with the firm: Renee Monfort, Jana Brady, Michael Denning, Heidi Ruckman, and Patrick Cloud.
Renee Monfort began practicing law in 1990. She joined Heyl Royster’s Urbana office in 2009. Her practice focuses on the defense of healthcare providers and other professionals in professional liability litigation. She provides general counsel to individual health care professionals, multi-specialty clinics and hospitals on administrative, policy and risk management matters. Her practice also includes representation of clients in administrative proceedings before the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Illinois Human Rights Commission.
Jana Brady joined the firm’s Rockford office following graduation from law school in 2003. She focuses her practice on the defense of civil litigation and federal practice, particularly in the context of employment law, civil rights, medical malpractice, correctional medicine, insurance coverage, school law, and nursing home cases, and further practices in the areas of health care law and creditors' rights in the context of lien adjudication.
Michael Denning was a summer associate for the firm’s Peoria office and served as Senior Law Clerk to Justice Tom Lytton of the Illinois Appellate Court, Third District prior to joining Heyl Royster’s Rockford office in 2004. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation, including defense medical malpractice and nursing home litigation; auto, premises and trucking litigation; and the defense of toxic tort and asbestos claims. -
January 30, 2012 |
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John M. Fitzgerald and Brian C. Haussmann have been promoted to partner at Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC and Katherine M. O’Brien has joined the firm as an associate.
Mr. Fitzgerald began working at the firm in 2006 and Mr. Haussmann started in 2008. Their area of practice is in commercial litigation.
Ms. O’Brien joined Tabet DiVito & Rothstein in November, after a Cook County Circuit Court clerkship with Stuart E. Palmer, who has since been appointed to the appellate court. Ms. O’Brien will concentrate her practice on commercial litigation.
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January 23, 2012 |
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Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC is pleased to announce that Michael Borree and Timothy Hogan have been elected to the partnership.
Michael Borree's practice is focused on professional malpractice defense, products liability defense, and commercial litigation. Mr.
Borree joined the firm after practicing at a Chicago litigation firm. He graduated from DePaul University College of Law, cum laude, in 2003. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999.
Timothy L. Hogan's practice is concentrated on professional liability, products liability and commercial matters. Mr. Hogan joined the firm following a clerkship with Judge Lynn M. Egan in the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law (2002), where he was on the Dean's List, staff editor of the Loyola University Consumer
Law Journal, and a member of the London Advocacy Program. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.
About DBMS
Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC is one of Chicago's pre-eminent trial practice boutiques. Founded in 1995, the firm successfully tries difficult, high exposure cases in the country's most challenging jurisdictions. The firm is known as one of the "go to" firms in Chicago for particularly difficult or high stakes cases and, since its founding, no firm in Chicago has tried as many complex cases as successfully as DBMS.