News & Results
HPS Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch 2025
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!
David Hall Teams Up With Swanson, Martin & Bell Attorneys to Obtain Defense Verdict
Working as co-trial counsel with attorneys Elizabeth Bruer and Shannon Buckley from SMB, HPS partner David Hall recently obtained a not liable verdict on behalf of an obstetrician and Duly Health (Formerly DuPage Medical Group).
David Hall Recognized as a Top 100 Lawyer
We are thrilled to announce that David Hall, Founding Partner of HPS, has been honored as one of the Top 100 Lawyers, a prestigious recognition in the legal field.
HPS Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers
Fourteen Attorneys at Hall, Prangle and Schoonveld LLC have been recognized as 2024 Super Lawyers or 2024 Rising Stars.
HPS Attorneys Secure Defense Verdict for Hospital Client
HPS attorneys David Hall, Matthew Ennis and Madeline Engledow obtained a defense verdict in a recent Cook County trial for a western suburban hospital.
Babel and Ambrose Secure Defense Verdict in Cook County
HPS Attorneys Sabina Babel and Gina Ambrose successfully defended a Chicagoland hospital group and family medicine physician against negligence and wrongful death claims.
Hall and Luzio Secure Defense Verdict In Nebraska
HPS Attorneys David Hall and Krista Luzio successfully secured a defense verdict in favor of an OB/GYN in Grand Island, Nebraska in collaboration with local Nebraska attorneys Mark Christensen and Isaiah Frohling of Cline Williams.
Four HPS Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers
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®.
HPS Adds Wisconsin Licenses to Better Serve Clients
In December 2022, three additional attorneys at Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC were sworn into the Wisconsin Bar, which now makes eight attorneys at the Firm licensed to practice law in that state. HPS partners and associates moved to gain permanent licenses in Wisconsin to better serve clients with healthcare legal and litigation needs in that state.
HPS Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers
Eleven Attorneys at Hall, Prangle and Schoonveld LLC have been recognized as 2023 Super Lawyers or 2023 Rising Stars. Super Lawyers, which is owned by Thomson Reuters, is a national organization that ranks attorneys based on peer nominations that are then reviewed by an independent research team.
HPS Trial Team Recognized in JVR Trial Lawyer Excellence Awards
Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC attorneys, David Hall (Dave), David Kalimuthu and Gina Ambrose received a 2022 Trial Lawyer Excellence Award from the Jury Verdict Reporter (JVR), a division of Law Bulletin Media.
HPS Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Hall Prangle and Schoonveld LLC (HPS) opened on August 1, 2002, a warm and rainy Thursday. David Hall, Michael Prangle and Eric Schoonveld reflect on the firm’s beginning, success, and future.
HPS Attorneys Secure Defense Verdict
HPS Attorneys David Hall, David Kalimuthu and Gina Ambrose defended a Chicago-area neurosurgeon against allegations of negligence related to Plaintiff’s spinal surgery to address an extremely large herniated disc compressing on the spinal cord.
HPS Attorneys Achieve Not Guilty Verdict in First Post-Pandemic, In-Person Jury Trial in Will County
HPS attorneys David Hall and Krista Luzio secured a not guilty verdict for all defendants in the first post-pandemic, in-person jury trial for the firm and in Will County.
Association Between Maternal Acetaminophen Use and An Increased Risk of ADHD and/or Autism in Their Children
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.
HPS Welcomes Two Associates to the Firm
On Thursday, November 7, 2019, Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC (HPS) welcomed two associates into the firm with a reception held at HPS's Chicago Office.
HPS Hiring Partner Becomes President of the Society of Trial Lawyers
In September, Michele Anderson, Hiring Partner at Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC (HPS), became the president of the Society of Trial Lawyers (the Society), only the second female to hold the post in the Society's near 100-year history.
Defense verdict in maternal death suit
HPS attorneys David Hall and Sabina Babel secured a defense verdict in a high profile case against the most respected plaintiff's law firm in the city. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin talked to David Hall about that case.
Hall and Babel Secure Defense Verdict in $40 Million Trial
In June 2019, HPS attorneys David Hall and Sabina Babel secured a defense verdict for a local teaching hospital in an intrapartum maternal death case involving the labor and delivery of a 40-year-old endocrinologist on December 9, 2012.
Eight HPS Attorneys Named Illinois Super Lawyers for 2019
Marilee Clausing, Jacob Z. Goldstein, Hugh C. Griffin, David C. Hall, Benjamin E. Patterson, Michael E. Prangle, Eric P. Schoonveld and Jacqueline B. Sharuzi have all been selected as Illinois Super Lawyers for 2019.