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In 2012, Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates attorneys received a $64 million verdict, the largest in Illinois history and the second largest in U.S. history, for a Local ironworker who fell and was left paralyzed from a job-site accident. [5] $64 million verdict on behalf of an injured ironworker who fell and was left paralyzed from a job-site accident.
Robert A. Clifford (1950 or 1951) [1] is a Chicago trial lawyer and principal partner at Clifford Law Offices. Clifford's firm specializes in "personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters."
Transferred intent is the legal principle that intent can be transferred from one victim or tort to another. [1] In tort law, there are generally five areas in which transferred intent is applicable: battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land, and trespass to chattels. Generally, any intent to cause any one of these five torts which ...
In tort common law, the defense of necessity gives the state or an individual a privilege to take or use the property of another. A defendant typically invokes the defense of necessity only against the intentional torts of trespass to chattels, trespass to land, or conversion.
[5] [4] By 1991, Leving was described as "one of the most recognizable names among Chicago lawyers". [4] In 2000, Leving was a lawyer in the case of 6-year-old Elián González, [2] who was rescued after being found tied to an inner tube off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Gonzalez's mother drowned in her attempt to flee Cuba to the ...
Edelson PC is an American plaintiffs' law firm that focuses on public client investigations, class actions, mass tort, and consumer protection laws. Edelson’s cases include class action settlements against Facebook for $650 million (2021), [1] [2] social casino apps for nearly $200 million (2021), [3] [4] and a $925 million verdict against ViSalus (2020.) [5] [6]
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The firm is a spin-off of Chicago-based law firm Kirkland and Ellis. The American Lawyer magazine named the firm its litigation boutique of the year for 2009. [6] In 2018, the firm named Jason Peltz as managing partner to replace founding partner Skip Herman. [7] In 2020, Benchmark Litigation named Bartlit Beck its trial firm of the year. [8]