Lynette D. Simmons

Lynette D. SimmonsPartner

In 2005 - 2007, Lynette D. Simmons acted as a Faculty Member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Midwest Regional Program, Chicago, Illinois;

To apply, send, fax or e-mail resume and cover letter to: Lynette Simmons, Sudekum Cassidy & Shulruff, Chtd., 20 N. Clark Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60602, Fax: 312-803-6272, E-mail: lds@scslegal.com.

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Lynette D. Simmons

Partner

Education

Ms. Simmons graduated, with honors, from the University of Michigan, with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1990.She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1993.
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Ms. Simmons joined the firm in January of 2000 and became a Partner in January of 2003.Ms. Simmons began her legal career in 1993 as an Associate at a thirty-attorney insurance defense firm, defending personal injury, product liability, premises liability and property cases.She then moved to a major seventy-five attorney Chicago firm with both commercial and tort practice groups.Here she prosecuted cases involving minor children who had been exposed to lead-based paint.

Prior to joining Sudekum, Cassidy & Shulruff, Chtd., Ms. Simmons was counsel to a variety of health care providers, including home health agencies, physicians and physician organizations at a four attorney firm.She was responsible for the preparation of cases for hearing before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board.

Expertise

Ms. Simmons concentrates her practice in first-and third-party insurance defense, including bodily injury, property, coverage, arson and suspected fraud.

She has tried nearly 20 cases to verdict since joining the practice, in addition to conducting hundreds of depositions and in excess of seventy arbitrations, including mandatory, three-man and Triple A. She has also conducted numerous