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Chapter 1 — Strict Liability in Tort in Products Liability Cases

Chapter 2 — Negligence and Warranty Theories of Products Liability

Chapter 3 — Parties to Products Liability Cases

Chapter 4 — Defenses to Products Liability

Chapter 5 — Investigation and Development of the Products Liability Case

Chapter 6 — Use of Discovery in Products Liability Cases

Chapter 7 — Use of Expert Witnesses in Products Liability Cases

Chapter 8 — Pleadings, Motions, and Third-Party Practice

Chapter 9 — Special Aspects of Products Liability Trials

Chapter 10 — Insurance Coverage for Products Liability

Chapter 11 — Damages in Products Liability Cases

Chapter 12 — Motions for Summary Judgment and Appeals

Authors

Michael H. Cantieri
Michael H. Cantieri
Michael H. Cantieri is a Partner at MG+M The Law Firm, in Chicago, where his practice is focused on products liability, toxic tort, and personal injury. He is a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, and he has been recognized as an Emerging Lawyer (2015 – 2017), an Illinois Leading Lawyer (2018 – present), and an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star (2014 – 2017). Cantieri received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and his B.S. from Illinois State University, where he was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Alpha Phi Sigma Criminal Justice National Honor Society.
Robert P. Conlon
Robert P. Conlon
Robert P. Conlon is a Founding Partner and Executive Committee Member at Walker Wilcox Matousek LLP in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in representing insurers and reinsurers in major coverage matters involving professional liability, bad faith, environmental issues, and first-party property. He is a member of the American, Illinois State, and Chicago Bar Associations as well as the Defense Research Institute and has written and lectured extensively on various areas of civil litigation. He received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina and his J.D. from DePaul University School of Law.
Mark D. Hansen
Mark D. Hansen
Mark D. Hansen is a Shareholder at Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., in Peoria, where he concentrates on commercial litigation, professional liability, and other areas of civil litigation. He is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Litigation Counsel of America, and the Society of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Hansen received his B.S. cum laude from Northern Illinois University and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law.
William R. Irwin
William R. Irwin
William R. Irwin is a Partner at MG+M The Law Firm, in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on products liability defense litigation. He has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star (2016 – 2023) and an Illinois Leading Lawyers Emerging Lawyer (2017 – 2023). Irwin received his B.A. magna cum laude from Illinois Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
Timothy L. Krippner
Timothy L. Krippner
Timothy L. Krippner is a Partner at MG+M The Law Firm, in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on products liability defense litigation. He has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer (2005 – 2006, 2009 – present) and an Illinois Leading Lawyer (2012 – present) and was named to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin’s 40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch in 2004. Krippner received his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Rex K. Linder
Rex K. Linder
Rex K. Linder is Senior Counsel to Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., in Peoria, where he concentrates his practice in civil litigation in federal and state courts, including the defense of professional and products liability cases involving potentially significant damages. He is a member and Past President of the International Association of Defense Counsel, a member and former board member of the Defense Research Institute, and a member and former President of the Peoria County Bar Association. He is also a member of the American and Illinois State Bar Associations. Mr. Linder received his B.S. from Bradley University and his J.D. from Washburn University School of Law.
Craig W. Mandell
Craig W. Mandell
Craig W. Mandell is an associate at Hinkhouse Williams Walsh LLP, in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on products liability, trademark infringement/dilution, and copyright infringement. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the International Trademark Association, and he has also been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer. Mandell received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, where he was a member of the DePaul Law Review and Cofounder of the DePaul University Arts, Technology, and Intellectual Property Law Journal.
Bojan Manojlovic
Bojan Manojlovic
Bojan Manojlovic is an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on products liability. He is a Graduate Public Interest Law Initiative Fellow at the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Mr. Manojlovic received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.
Bruno R. Marasso
Bruno R. Marasso
Bruno R. Marasso is a Partner at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in products liability, premises liability, and transportation. He is President of the Justinian Society of Lawyers and an assemblyman of the Illinois State Bar Association. Marasso is also a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. He received his B.A. from Fordham University and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Kara L. McCall
Kara L. McCall
Kara L. McCall is a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, where she focuses her practice on products liability and consumer class actions. She has been named to Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences — Product Liability Defence in 2016, 2017, and 2019; The Legal 500 US in 2010 – 2017; and the Chicago Lawyer’s 40 Under 40 listing. Ms. McCall received her B.A. summa cum laude from Butler University and her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Chicago Law School.
Joseph T. Morrison
Joseph T. Morrison
Joseph T. Morrison is a trial lawyer with Kelleher + Holland, LLC, in North Barrington, where his practice focuses on complex personal injuries, as well as commercial and real estate litigation. Morrison has been recognized as an Illinois Leading Lawyer, and he has a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. He is also included in National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Civil Plaintiff attorneys. Morrison received his B.S. from Knox College and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Bradley C. Nahrstadt
Bradley C. Nahrstadt
Bradley C. Nahrstadt is the Chief Operating Officer of Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC, in Chicago. Mr. Nahrstadt is a Past Chair of the Primerus Defense Institute, has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and is a Past President of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel. He is AV Preeminent peer review rated by Martindale-Hubbell; was selected by his peers for inclusion in Illinois Leading Lawyers for products liability and medical malpractice defense; was selected by his peers for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers for products liability defense; was selected by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as one of the 40 Illinois Attorneys under 40 to Watch; and was selected as among Chicago’s Top Rated Lawyers in commercial litigation, general practice, and insurance law. He has served as Regional Counsel for a national testing laboratory, for a large consumer of welding rods, and for one of the leading optical manufacturers in the country. He has served in the past as an adjunct professor in trial advocacy at DePaul University College of Law and as an adjunct professor teaching a litigation course at the College of Lake County. He is an award-winning author and has written more than 75 articles on various areas of trial practice and discovery that have appeared in numerous leading publications, coauthored course books for the Institute of Paralegal Education and the National Business Institute, authored a quarterly column that appears in the IDC Quarterly, authored multiple book chapters on issues related to litigation defense, and is a frequent speaker on law-related topics. He also serves as the General Editor of IICLE®’s ILLINOIS PRODUCTS LIABILITY PRACTICE. He is an active member of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, the American Law Institute, the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Professional Liability Defense Federation, the Council on Litigation Management, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel (member of the Board of Directors), the Defense Research Institute, and the Chicago-Lincoln American Inn of Court. He earned his B.A. summa cum laude with distinction from Monmouth College and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law.
John P. O’Malley
John P. O’Malley
John P. O’Malley is Of Counsel at Karbal Cohen Economou Silk & Dunne LLC, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in insurance coverage litigation. He is a member of the Federal Trial Board, the Society of Trial Lawyers, and the Illinois Supreme Court’s Committee on Character and Fitness. O’Malley received his J.D. with honors, Order of the Coif, from DePaul University College of Law.
Teri H. Peeples
Teri H. Peeples
Teri H. Peeples is an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in New York City, where she focuses her practice on healthcare and products liability. She is a member of the Drug & Medical Device Committee of the Defense Research Institute. Ms. Peeples received her B.A. from Amherst College and her J.D. from Emory University School of Law.
Jeffrey Singer
Jeffrey Singer
Jeffrey Singer is Of Counsel to Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in products liability and complex litigation. He is a frequent speaker at local and national attorney seminars and association meetings regarding the defense of products liability and medical negligence lawsuits, cost-effective methods of defending catastrophic injury cases, techniques to prevent products liability claims, and effective product safety warnings. He is a member of the Products Liability Advisory Council and the Defense Research Institute, has been named to the Top Ten Product Liability Defense Attorneys by Leading Lawyers, and is an adjunct professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Thomas G. Siracusa
Thomas G. Siracusa
Thomas G. Siracusa is a Partner at Power Rogers, LLP, in Chicago. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Managers and the American Trial Board of Advocates. Siracusa received his B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and his J.D. with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
David J. Sullivan
David J. Sullivan
David J. Sullivan is a Partner at Sullivan O’Malley LLC, in Chicago, where his practice focuses on insurance defense litigation. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, a member of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel and Past Chair of its Tort Law Committee, and a member of the American Bar Association, where he is a reviewer for the Truck Accident Board Certification exam. Sullivan received his B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He is also an Illinois Certified Public Accountant.
Christopher K. Triska
Christopher K. Triska
Christopher K. Triska is a Partner at MG+M The Law Firm, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in toxic torts, products liability, and personal injury. He has been named an Emerging Lawyer by Leading Lawyers (2019 – 2021). Triska received his J.D. cum laude from The John Marshall Law School and his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he was on the Dean’s List, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and the Golden Key National Honor Society.
Christopher A. Wadley
Christopher A. Wadley
Christopher A. Wadley is a Partner at Walker Wilcox Matousek LLP in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on insurance coverage and products liability. He has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer (2022 – 2023), and he is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Wadley received his B.A. with high distinction from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his J.D. cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
James H. Whalen
James H. Whalen
James H. Whalen is a Partner at Lipe Lyons Murphy Nahrstadt & Pontikis Ltd. in Chicago and a member of the firm’s tort defense, products liability, and commercial litigation practice groups. He focuses his practice on construction, commercial, products liability, employment discrimination, and premises liability. He is a member of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, the Justinian Society of Lawyers, and the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
John T. Williams
John T. Williams
John T. Williams is a Partner at Hinkhouse Williams Walsh LLP in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on products liability litigation, intellectual property counseling and litigation, and complex class action litigation. He is a member of the Council on Litigation Management and the International Trademark Association. He has also been named an Illinois Super Lawyer. Williams received his B.A. magna cum laude from Gustavus Adolphus College and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.

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Michael H. Cantieri

Robert P. Conlon

Mark D. Hansen

William R. Irwin

Timothy L. Krippner

Rex K. Linder

Craig W. Mandell

Bojan Manojlovic

Bruno R. Marasso

Kara L. McCall

Joseph T. Morrison

Bradley C. Nahrstadt

John P. O’Malley

Teri H. Peeples

Jeffrey Singer

Thomas G. Siracusa

David J. Sullivan

Christopher K. Triska

Christopher A. Wadley

James H. Whalen

John T. Williams

Products Liability Practice (ARCHIVED 2019 EDITION)