Christopher D. Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Represent clients in product liability, toxic tort and asbestos litigation matters, including both the active work up and defense of cases as well as litigation management. Member of a team that serves as national coordinating counsel for an international corporation with regard to its toxic tort litigation.In addition to litigation experience, obtained “in-house” experience when seconded for a long term project to the legal department of a Fortune 100 company and managed various litigation dockets with thousands of claims nationally.

Chicago

Chris Dely represents clients in product liability, toxic tort, medical device,and asbestos litigation matters. His representation includes both the active work up and defense of cases as well as litigation management. He is the member of a team that serves as national coordinating counsel for an international corporation with regard to its toxic tort litigation.Chris has obtained dismissals and negotiated settlements for litigation clients, in addition to obtaining defense verdicts in arbitrations and successfully mediating cases. He also performs due diligence on toxic tort liabilities for corporate clients making acquisitions and counsels manufacturers on Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations, laws and standards.Chris has extensive experience in defending trans vaginal mesh cases in multiple jurisdictions across the country.In addition to his litigation practice Chris obtained “in-house” experience when he was seconded for a long term project to the legal department of a Fortune 100 company and managed various litigation dockets with thousands of claims nationally.

Beijing China

Assisting Chinese legal professionals with enhancing their English communication skills, both oral and written.

Greater Chicago Area

Served as a Seconded Attorney to the corporate legal department of a large consumer products company with multiple divisions; manage litigation matters and providing general legal support over a broad range of areas.Litigate and manage a broad range of complex litigation matters including product liability and toxic tort; including case management, strategy development, discovery coordination, client reporting, and trial preparation. Manage reporting from local counsel in multiple jurisdictions; General commercial ligtiation practice included representation of Plaintiff in Breach of Employment Contract action with a favorable settlement result.Served as a Seconded Litigation Attorney to a Fortune 100 Company during an eight month assignment; Responsible for the management of multiple product liability dockets including toxic tort and asbestos with over 10,000 claims nationally; Develop and implement strategic defense of product liability including toxic tort and asbestos litigation; Retain and supervise outside national coordinating and local counsel in all assigned cases; manage outside counsel to ensure adherence to appropriate budgets; Manage and support discovery, document preservation and collection; Assist national coordinating counsel in preparing potential company witnesses for deposition and trial testimony; manage trial strategy and preparation; develop settlement strategies and parameters, and oversee settlement negotiations as necessary; Advise and report to key constituencies, including business clients, about litigation progress, strategy and settlement negotiations; Work with Litigation team to create and streamline processes and procedures as appropriate; Collaborate with Risk Management Department to provide advice regarding insurance issues as needed; Advise business clients on risk avoidance and litigation prevention

Greater Chicago Area

Defended diverse client base in asbestos, product liability, toxic tort, and general litigation lawsuits in Cook and Madison Counties; including case management, strategy development, and trial preparation. Coordinated answering discovery in multiple jurisdictions for major product manufacturer in asbestos litigation; extensive interaction with client’s in-house experts for answering and verifying discovery responses. Manage reporting from local counsel in multiple jurisdictions.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for the defense and management of hundreds of asbestos lawsuits in Cook and Madison Counties; including case management, strategy development, settlement negotiations and trial preparation, resulting in excellent results for various clients including product manufacturers and premises defendants. Assist in strategy development as member of the national asbestos defense team counseling an international corporation with regard to its asbestos liabilities in 40 jurisdictions.

Greater Chicago Area

Defended a wide variety of catastrophic injury and complex cases in state and federal court. Substantive areas included products liability, asbestos litigation, premises liability, transportation, and medical malpractice. Responsible for taking and defending depositions, drafting all variety of motions, and drafting discovery. Participated in several mediations and arbitrations with excellent results for major clients. Drafted successful appelate brief. Experience with targeted tenders in construction cases.

Greater Chicago Area

Assisted partners in managing complex personal injury caseloads in a variety of substantive areas. Interviewed clients and witnesses, drafted pleadings, motions, and demand letters. Located, researched, and interviewed expert witnesses for complex cases

Greater Detroit Area

Audited production purchasing contracts to verify: the validity of negotiated lifetime and long-term price reductions; the accuracy of contracts containing multiple units of measure and currencies; proper implementation of engineering work order price changes; appropriate amortization of tooling costs; proper pricing of packaging methods, and accuracy of currency exchange rate conversions. Facilitated buyer and supplier communication to recover missed savings or modify inaccurate contract performance.

Jd, Law

* CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Advanced Trial Advocacy * Research Assistant to Professor Bruce L. Ottley for his treatise.

Ba, Social Science Pre-Law

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