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Kayla Condeni approaches every case prepared to her defend her clients through trial.
Kayla Condeni pursues strategies designed to get her clients dismissed from the case at the earliest opportunity, whether through motion practice or negotiations with opposing counsel, while also preparing each case for trial. She exposes both factual and legal weaknesses in the plaintiff’s case to gain leverage throughout litigation, retains the best consultants and experts, and treats each piece of evidence as if it will be presented to a jury. She maintains open and constant communication with her clients to ensure a complete and thorough understanding of the case so she can fully appreciate her client’s wants, needs, and goals for the successful resolution of all matters.
She is experienced in defending a variety of matters, including medical malpractice, premises liability, employment discrimination, and personal injury, with the majority of her practice dedicated to defending medical providers and institutions. Kayla defends cases involving medical care provided at hospitals, private practice groups, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities. Kayla has successfully defended her clients against plaintiffs seeking tens of millions in damages under the Wrongful Death Act, Survival Act, Family Expense Act, and theories of negligence.
She has represented her medical malpractice clients through all stages of litigation, including to verdict. She understands that defending a medical malpractice claim involves not only a understanding of the statutes and legal issues at play, but a deep understanding of the medicine at issue.
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
Pretzel & Stouffer attorneys Kayla Condeni and Donald Patrick Eckler published a column in the IDC Quarterly on the judicial estoppel doctrine and recent cases addressing it. The article is linked here.
March 2021 | Firm News
Kayla Condeni, whose practice focuses on medical malpractice matters, explains the First’s District’s holding in Sparger v. Yamini. The First District of the Appellate Court of Illinois recently held in Sparger v. Yamini, 2019 IL App (1st), 180566, that where a plaintiff claims a neurological brain injury, rather than a psychological injury, the plaintiff ...
October 2019 | Firm News
Pretzel & Stouffer attorneys, Timothy Weaver and Kayla Condeni, have had their publication “Return of the Verdict and Entry of Judgment” accepted for publication by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (“IICLE”) in the text, Civil Practice: Trying the Case. The chapter covers the most salient topics related to verdicts, including improper influences on ...
July 2019 | Firm News
Pretzel & Stouffer was a proud sponsor of the 105th Women’s Bar Association of Illinois Annual Installation Dinner. Congratulations to the new president of the WBAI, Corinne Heggie and the new members of the board. Pretzel & Stouffer attorneys, Mary Cronin, Sommer Luzynczyk, Kayla Condeni, Paula Villela, and Caitlin Donohue attended the event with Amy ...
July 2019 | Firm News
Brian Henry and Kayla Condeni successfully argued that the defendant anesthesiologist could not be the surgery center’s apparent agent such that the surgery center was vicariously liable for the physician’s alleged medical malpractice. Brian and Kayla argued that the surgery center’s consent forms unequivocally put the patient on notice that the anesthesiologist was not the ...
March 2024
Brian Henry and Kayla Condeni successfully defended an orthopedic surgeon in a 1.5 week trial in Cook County. The orthopedic surgeon was accused of negligently overlengthening a patient’s leg when performing a total hip replacement. The plaintiff requested over $1 million in damages after claiming the patient could no longer work, was disfigured, and experiencing ...
August 2023
Partners Matthew J. Egan and Kayla A. Condeni recently prevailed in a Title VII employment discrimination case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of the firm’s client, a healthcare employee union, that had employed the plaintiff in a sensitive governmental affairs position. After first granting Matt and Kayla’s ...
March 2023
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
Kayla A. Condeni and Matthew J. Egan were successful in the Circuit Court of Cook County in obtaining the dismissal with prejudice of all claims against an attorney and a law firm arising from their representation of the plaintiffs in a medical malpractice case that was settled shortly before trial commenced. The plaintiffs asserted claims ...
October 2021