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Bio Education Professional Associations Licensed Professional Recognition Results Memberships Invited Lecturer/Speaker

Bio

Attorney Alice E. Dolan is a dedicated and extremely skilled attorney who gives her full attention to every case. Her reputation for diligence, tenacity, and determination is well-known, and she is highly respected by her colleagues and opponents alike. Ms. Dolan’s clients appreciate her compassion and her understanding of their pain, suffering, and loss.

Education

John Marshall Law School - Juris Doctor 1981
Marquette University - B.A. Business Administration, 1977

Professional Associations

Adjunct Professor -Northwestern University School of Law, 2003-present
Elected Member of the Assembly of the Illinois State Bar Association, 2013 to 2019 term.
Appointed for a three-year term to WBAI Hooten Memorial Fund Committee, 2015
Appointed to Assembly Governance Committee of the ISBA, 2013-2015.
Appointed to ISBA Standing Committee on Judicial Evaluation- Cook County, 2009-2015.
Appointed to Executive Committee - ISBA Standing Committee on Judicial Evaluations, 2014.
Appointed to Judicial Evaluation Committee for Women's Bar Association of Illinois, 2005-2006.
Judge - ISBA Mock Trials
Judge - American Mock Trial Association- National Collegiate Mock Tournament, 2007-2014
Judge - National Trial Competition, Midwest Regional of the American Counsel of Trial Lawyers, February, 2015.
Judge - American Association for Justice-Student Trial Advocacy Competition, Chicago, 2013- 2015
Judge - DePaul University of Law- Appellate Oral Argument, 2014- 2015
Board Member and Past Board President - Our Lady of Tepeyac High School, Chicago, IL, 2006-present.
Mentor - Mentoring Program - Our Lady of Tepeyac High School, Chicago, IL, 2013 – present.
Selected to Illinois Health Information Exchange Legal Task Force, 2011.
Member, Joint Professional Reception Committee; 100th WBAI Centennial Gala Installation Dinner Committee, Women's Bar Association of Illinois
Diversity Scholarship Foundation Unity Award Committee, 2016-2018
Ask a Lawyer Day, ISBA, 2015-present

Licensed

Admitted to Illinois State Bar, 1981

Professional Recognition

2013 - 2019 Member of ISBA Assembly Governance Committee
Chicago Top-Rated Lawyer with AV Preeminent rating - Martindale- Hubbell Law Directory, 2003-Present
Illinois Super Lawyer - Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice, 2004-Present
Illinois Leading Lawyer - Selected among 5% of attorneys in Illinois, 2003-Present
Top 10 Leading Women Personal Injury Lawyers in Illinois - Leading Lawyers Network, 2010-Present
Top 50 Leading Women Consumer Lawyers in Illinois - Leading Lawyers Network, 2007, 2008, 2011
Top 50 Illinois Women Lawyers - Chicago Magazine, 2005, 2006, 2007
Top 100 Trial Lawyers - American Trial Lawyers Association, 2009-2012

Results

$11 million dollar settlement during trial to the widow of a 51 year old man who was rendered quadriplegic and died after the head holding device used during cervical surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital failed* (recognized within the top 20 settlements in Illinois in 2004 by Crain's Chicago Business)
$8.49 million dollar jury verdict (increased to over $10 million dollars after the defendant's unsuccessful appeal) to the family of a 17 year old girl who was killed in a motor vehicle incident involving Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc.
$7.9 million settlement to a 52 year old union pipe insulator who developed compartment syndrome as a result of physicians' failure to recognize the formation of a blood clot following a total knee replacement
$6.8 million dollar jury verdict to a widow and two adult children living in Poland whose 46 year old husband and father died as a result of receiving the wrong medication at an Arlington Heights hospital after a fall at a construction site
$5.3 million dollar jury verdict for the mother and sister of an 11 year old girl who died from irreversible brain damage during her admission to Cook County Hospital
$5 million dollar record settlement during trial for a Will County man whose vision was significantly impaired from injuries he received while cleaning farm equipment
$4.86 million dollar jury verdict to the estate of a young woman who died two years after suffering devastating injuries when the car in which she was a passenger plummeted into an unguarded road construction pit
$3 million dollar settlement to a 50 year old man who suffered nerve injury to his hand during cervical surgery at an Arlington Heights, IL hospital

Memberships

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Chicago Bar Association
Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Invited Lecturer/Speaker

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Illinois State Bar Association
DePaul University College of Law
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital

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