Category: Firm News

Pretzel & Stouffer is proud to announce the following lawyers from our firm have been selected by the Leading Lawyers Advisory Board as Emerging Lawyers for 2019:

Pretzel & Stouffer attorneys, Donald Eckler and Paula Villela, published an article in the Illinois Association of Defense Counsel Quarterly (IDC) analyzing the decision in Douglas v. Arlington Park Racecourse, LLC, 2018 IL App (1st) 162962 in which the court held that instructing the jury on sole proximate cause was appropriate where the defendant presented …

Pretzel and Stouffer partners, David Bennett, Robert Chemers, Suzanne Crowley, Matthew Egan, Patrick Healy, Brian Henry, James LaBarge, Edward Nielsen, Howard Pikel, Brian Rocca, Alan Schumacher, Brian Sundheim, John Smith, Richard Waris, and Timothy Weaver, were selected in 2019 by their peers as Preeminent for Highest level of Professional Excellence by Martindale-Hubbell.

Pretzel & Stouffer partner, Matthew Egan, has been reappointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Committee on Jury Instructions in Civil Cases. The Committee consists of experienced civil trial lawyers and trial judges throughout the state. The Committee is tasked by the Supreme Court to study and recommend new pattern jury instructions and modifications …