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Pretzel & Stouffer Chartered promoted Mimi Moon and Michael Barry to shareholders

Pretzel & Stouffer Chartered promoted Mimi Moon and Michael Barry to shareholders in the firm.  Moon and Barry both focus their respective practices primarily on the defense of health-care professionals, carrying on Pretzel & Stouffer’s seven-decade legacy of trial attorneys who successfully defend hospitals, physicians, and long-term care facilities.  Pretzel & Stouffer also announces that …

January 2024 | Firm News

New Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions – Employment Discrimination & Retaliation Cases

The Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions for civil cases now include instructions for employment discrimination and retaliation claims brought under the Illinois Human Rights Act. These instructions have been posted on the Illinois Supreme Court’s website as Chapter 255.00 of the IPI Civil Instructions.   Pretzel & Stouffer shareholder Matthew J. Egan is the vice chair …

May 2023 | Firm News

Brian Henry lectures to animation and medical illustrators at the UIC Medical Center

Brian Henry recently lectured to computer animation and medical illustrators at the UIC Medical Center regarding demonstrative trial exhibits. Using real-world examples of medical illustrations and medical animations, Brian demonstrated how trial exhibits can effectively educate jurors to the anatomy and/or the medical procedure and to aid experts in explaining their opinions in a trial.

July 2022 | Firm News

Sommer Luzynczyk and Kayla Condeni win dismissal with prejudice

Sommer Luzynczyk and Kayla Condeni win dismissal with prejudice based on lack of standing in a putative class action lawsuit against the estate of a deceased physician. The lawsuit brought in the Circuit Court of Cook County alleged a pattern of conduct extending back 29+ years and involved the alleged failure to administer routine childhood …

May 2022 | Firm News