Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois confirmed a jury verdict for client William Dean, a kidney cancer patient whose illness went untreated for months by private health providers in the prison where he was being held. The verdict includes over $8 million in damages. […]
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Tim Parilla Examines in Law360 The Significant Effect A Client’s Role In An Underlying Lawsuit Has A On A Legal Malpractice Claim
September 17, 2020
Tim Parilla examines how a client’s role as a plaintiff or defendant in an underlying lawsuit has a significant effect on legal malpractice claims in an unexpected way in his Law360 article, “The Problem With Collectability In Legal Malpractice Claims.” A client who is a plaintiff in an underlying suit […]
Palmersheim & Mathew is pleased to announce the addition of William (Bill) Strom as an associate attorney. Bill joins Palmersheim & Mathew from Jenner & Block where he was a commercial litigation associate. Bill has experience in complex commercial litigation, business torts, professional liability, commercial arbitration, civil rights litigation, putative […]
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Tim Parilla Discusses In Bloomberg Law How Covid-19 Could Impact Legal Malpractice Claims and Assignments
May 6, 2020
Timothy G. Parilla considers how prohibiting the assignment of malpractice claims against attorneys may now receive more attention and be reanalyzed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in his Bloomberg article, “Covid-19 May Mean the End of ‘Lucky Break’ for Attorney Malpractice Claims.” Courts have routinely permitted the assignment […]
Palmersheim & Mathew’s River North loft was in the spotlight in the April 2020 issue of Chicago Lawyer Magazine as the perfect spot for a growing firm that thinks differently. The piece highlighted how the firm’s space is a far cry from the cookie-cutter offices of many large law firms in the […]