Marilee Clausing participated as national counsel in a three-week obstetrical malpractice trial in St. Louis County, Missouri involving a maternal death and delivery of a brain-damaged infant.

HPS attorneys, Marilee Clausing, Kate Dzik, and Olivia Tomassetti obtained a defense verdict in a recent Cook County trial involving two maternal medicine specialists practicing at an academic hospital.

We are thrilled to congratulate Michele Anderson, Marilee Clausing, Hugh Griffin, and David Hall for their inclusion in the 31ˢᵗ edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and Kyli Cotten for her recognition in the fifth edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America!

Fourteen Attorneys at Hall, Prangle and Schoonveld LLC have been recognized as 2024 Super Lawyers or 2024 Rising Stars.

HPS Attorneys, Marilee Clausing and Kate Dzik, assisted by Madeline Engledow, secured a defense verdict on behalf of a Chicago area hospital in a wrongful death case in Cook County.

Congratulations to our David Hall, Marilee Clausing, Hugh Griffin, and Kyli Cotten on their recognition in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

As 2023's Women's History month comes to an end, Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC presents a conversation about women in the legal profession between two of our attorneys: Marilee Clausing, Managing Partner, who graduated from DePaul University College of Law in 1985 and Tania Dawood, Associate, who graduated from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law in 2021.

HPS Attorneys Marilee Clausing and Molly Pankauskas successfully defended an anesthesiologist against claims that he negligently performed the patient’s preoperative evaluation and failed to timely treat postoperative airway complications.

Gilma Bernal is in her second year at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Over the summer of 2022, she was a law clerk in Hall Prangle and Schoonveld’s Chicago Office.

While the legal field is moving towards a remote-based world, I am thankful that I clerked in-person at Hall Prangle and Schoonveld over the summer.

Intrapartum uterine contractions and engagement of the fetus in the birth canal can compress the fetal head. There is a long-standing view that this head compression is benign in most cases, and that it’s a common cause of intrapartum fetal heart rate decelerations.

Unless and until there is a further general order, it appears that the unsettled status of the constitutionality and the retroactivity of the PJI statute will remain in limbo in Cook County for whatever time (two – three years?) it will take before the Supreme Court reviews the statute and issues a decision on these issues.

Jacob Goldstein, Co-Chair HPS Appellate Group, successfully defended a 2020 HPS verdict on appeal before the Illinois Appellate Court, First District.

The plaintiffs appealed the 2020 defensive verdict in a case that was defended by HPS attorneys Marilee Clausing and Matt Kaminski. The case involved claims that a family medicine physician failed to diagnose and treat the plaintiff's rare blood disorder, which caused a catastrophic stroke and permanent neurological damage.

Late last month, eleven members of Hall Prangle &Schoonveld, LLC (HPS) took part in the 27th annual Race Judicata, a 5K race benefiting Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation (“CVLS”). Founded in 1964, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS) provides accessible and pro bono civil legal aid to the community servicing thousands of Chicagoans annually. The mission of CLVS is something that HPS is proud to support.

Seven attorneys from Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC (HPS) have been recognized in Thompson Reuters 2022 Super Lawyers Magazine Illinois edition.

Three HPS attorneys have been featured in the 2021 issue of Marquette Nurse, the Magazine for Marquette University College of Nursing.

According to a report posted on Frontiers in Pediatrics, doctors followed four pregnant women from the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic – Wuhan, China – who tested positive for COVID-19. The women all gave birth while actively symptomatic. The conclusion after testing and observation was that the COVID-19 virus did not pass from the mother to the fetus, and the infants were born without any of the respiratory signs of COVID-19.

In early March 2020, HPS attorneys Marilee Clausing and Matthew Kaminski successfully defended a Chicago area family medicine physician against claims that he failed to diagnose and treat the plaintiff’s rare blood disorder, which caused a catastrophic stroke and permanent neurological damage.

A Google search of a phrase like "Birth Trauma causes Autism" will result in links to, inter alia, various legal websites asserting that trauma during labor and delivery is a cause of a child's autism or behavioral issues. The most recent of a series of medical articles, however, points to a potential alternative cause – maternal use of acetaminophen.

In the second standard, Reduce the likelihood of harm related to maternal severe hypertension/preeclampsia, there are six elements of performance.Both of these standards address prevention, recognition, treatment and education to improve maternal outcomes. While improving outcomes is a goal every organization will support, we feel these standards may also offer the opportunity to reduce potential liability and litigation.

Maternal hemorrhage is one of the most important clinical issues in obstetrics today – and a not uncommon source of potential liability in obstetrical negligence litigation. This new standard, "Reduce the likelihood of harm related to maternal hemorrhage," was based on recommendations from technical advisors, clinicians, and administrators and included extensive literature review.