Overview

Overview

Elizabeth M. Bartolucci serves as Special Counsel to the firm, having extensive litigation background in commercial, insurance, and tort law. After beginning her legal career as an attorney with the Illinois Appellate Court (1995-1997), Elizabeth joined the firm O’Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, where she defended clients in tort and commercial litigation. Elizabeth then spent several years practicing in San Francisco, California, where she worked in the surety group of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, representing national surety corporations in surety and bankruptcy litigation in state and federal courts. Elizabeth then returned to O’Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, where her work focused on insurance coverage, professional liability, and appellate matters.

Elizabeth has worked in-house with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, first as a Claims Specialist handling legal and accounting malpractice claims and, later, as counsel with FFIC’s coverage counsel’s office.

Today, Elizabeth’s practice is focused on appellate matters, insurance coverage counseling and litigation, professional liability, and commercial litigation.

Experience

Experience

Elizabeth has obtained favorable results for clients in several notable appellate matters, including:

  • Gary Jet Ctr., Inc. v. AFCO AvPORTS Mgmt. LLC, 863 F.3d 718 (7th Cir. 2017)
  • Board of Educ. of Woodland Cmty. Consol. Sch. Dist. 50 v. Illinois State Charter Sch. Comm’n, 2016 IL App (1st) 151372, 60 N.E.3d 107
  • Wade v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2015 IL App (4th) 141067, 39 N.E.3d 1141
  • People ex rel. Madigan v. Nagle Station, LLC, 2017 IL App (1st) 160534-U

Publications

Publications

  • Author, “Brown v. Iowa Legislative Council: The Application of the FOIA to Computerized Government Records,” John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law, October 1994.
  • Author and Presenter, “Coverage Update”, Professional Liability Attorney Network, PLAN Regional Workshop, New York, June 2009

Professional & Civic

Professional

  • Member, Appellate Lawyers Association
  • Member, Illinois State Bar Association
  • Member, Chicago Bar Association

Education

  • J.D., University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, 1995
    • Assistant Editor, The John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law
    • Recipient, Dean's Scholarship
    • Member, Dean's List
  • B.S., Michigan State University, 1989

Admissions

  • California
  • Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

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