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Appellate Victory in Dispute Over Law Firm’s Right to Recover Fee and Expenses

Pretzel & Stouffer partners Brendan J. Nelligan and Matthew J. Egan secured a victory in the Illinois Appellate Court on behalf of the firm’s client, a law firm to whom the trial court had awarded fees and expenses under principles of quantum meruit from the settlement proceeds of a medical malpractice case in which the …

July 2024

Robert Chemers and Dave Larson won in the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, when the Court affirmed the summary judgment entered in Sangamon County

Robert Chemers and Dave Larson won in the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, when the Court affirmed the summary judgment entered in Sangamon County for their insurer client. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment that our insurer client did not have a duty to defend the insured architecture firm for no less than 23 pending …

May 2024

Brian Henry and Kayla Condeni win summary judgment for surgery center

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