Lawyers at DBS successfully litigate a wide variety of civil cases and argue appeals in some of the most challenging jurisdictions in the country.
Hospital and Nurse
Outcome:Defense Verdict.
On July 28, 2025, DBS attorneys Mark Burden and Peter LeGrand obtained a defense verdict in favor of the firm’s clients, a local hospital system and an emergency medicine nurse, ...
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Outcome:Defense Verdict.
DBS attorneys Robert W. Smyth and Mason W. Kienzle tried a complex medical malpractice case in the Circuit Court of Cook County for over two weeks before Hon. Robert Harris, ...
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Outcome:Defense Verdict.
On July 9, 2025, DBS partners Michael Borree and David Duffey obtained a defense verdict in favor of the firm’s clients at a medical malpractice trial held before Hon. Gerald ...
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Outcome:Defense Verdict.
On April 25, 2025, Michael Borree and Jeffrey Eippert obtained a not guilty verdict for their clients, a critical care physician and her practice group, in a medical malpractice trial ...
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Outcome:Defense Verdict.
On April 8, 2025, Stetson Atwood and Allie Ewert obtained a defense verdict for a local hospital system in a case tried in the Circuit Court of Cook County before ...
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Outcome:Defense Verdict.
On February 27, 2025, Michael J. Borree and Mason Kienzle obtained a defense verdict for their client, an internal medicine physician. The case was tried in the Circuit Court of ...
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Outcome:Successfully defended a trial judge’s dismissal of claim and upheld sanctions against the plaintiffs’ attorney.
The DBS appellate team of Karen Kies DeGrand and Connor Whitting successfully defended a trial judge’s dismissal of a false imprisonment claim against a local university hospital and upheld sanctions ...
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Outcome:Affirmance of Directed Verdict .
The DBS appellate team of Karen Kies DeGrand and Connor Whitting recently defeated a medical malpractice plaintiff’s attempt to reverse a judgment entered on a directed verdict for a neurologist ...
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Outcome:New trial obtained for defendant.
Karen Kies DeGrand and Scott Howie successfully obtained an order granting defendant’s post-trial motion, dispensed with the $40,750,000 jury verdict in plaintiff’s favor and awarding defendant a new trial. In ...
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