Neha Tannan Email & Phone Number

Chicago

120 N. Lasalle St., Suite 950

• Analyze coverage, liability, and verdict values in complex construction, trucking, and premises liability claims.
• Draft coverage opinions and tender letters.
• Negotiate in mediations and other alternative dispute resolution settings.
• Research, draft, and argue dispositive and discovery motions.
• Depose party witnesses, fact witnesses, physicians, and retained experts.
• Engaged in week-long jury trial that resulted in verdict below offer extended in Cook County, Illinois.

Chicago, IL

- Defend construction negligence, personal injury, products liability and subrogation matters - Attend non-binding mediations and pre-trial settlement conferences in third-party employers' liability claims - Draft and argue contested motions in employers' liability claims, Illinois Workers' Compensation fee recovery claims and retaliatory discharge claims.

• Handled fifty-two (52) personal injury cases in the Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties.
• Conducted discovery depositions of parties, fact witnesses, and physicians.
• Argued discovery motions and attended case management conferences, pre-trial conferences, and trial setting conferences.
• Drafted Responses to Motions to Dismiss, Motions for Summary Judgment, and Motions to Transfer.

• Drafted complaints in a variety of personal injury cases.
• Answered Defendants’ interrogatories, forum non conveniens interrogatories, and production requests.
• Reviewed medical specials and drafted medical summaries in personal injury and medical malpractice cases.
• Corresponded with insurance companies regarding medical specials.

• Determined Motions to Shorten Redemption Period and Motions for Immediate Possession.
• Reviewed documentation for Judgment of Foreclosures and Orders Approving Sale.
• Observed contested mortgage foreclosures and mechanics’ liens trials.
• Conducted legal research on proceedings before the court.

Juris Doctor

Activities and Societies: President of South Asian Law Students Association; Co-founder and Co-editor in Chief of "Satyam: The.

B.S., International Studies: International Political Economy; Political Science

Activities and Societies: Student Action for International Volunteerism and Aid; India Students Association;