News & Insights

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]