$100M

Practice Areas

Personal Injury

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April 30, 2008

Six people killed and 16 others injured at the Cook County Administration Building in Chicago's downtown when firefighters failed to save people stuck in smoky high-rise stairwell; one of the highest personal injury settlements in Chicago's Cook County history. Click here to read more about this case.

$35M $70M

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