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Palmersheim & Mathew LLP is proud to announce that partners Robert J. Palmersheim and Anand C. Mathew have been recognized as 2021 Leading Lawyers in Illinois. Palmersheim has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer for 2021, an honor he has received regularly since 2012. This distinction is earned by fewer […]

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 […]