USA – ILLINOIS Trends and Developments Contributed by: Everett J. Cygal, Daniel J. Schufreider, Jasmine K. Dela Luna, Sarah M. Oligmueller and Christopher L. Gerardi, ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jasmine K. Dela Luna is a senior associate in ArentFox Schiff’s complex Litigation group, representing clients across multiple industries with a focus on insurance and reinsurance disputes. She
Christopher L. Gerardi is an associate at ArentFox Schiff focused on complex commercial litigation, including insurance and reinsurance coverage, contract disputes, antitrust and class actions. He manages
prepares substantive briefs and dispositive motions, manages large-scale discovery, and develops case strategy through all phases of litigation and arbitration. Jasmine has conducted oral advocacy, taken and defended depositions, and examined witnesses, helping clients achieve favourable outcomes in federal and state courts, and in arbitration proceedings. Jasmine earned her JD from the University of Chicago Law School (2019) and her BA, summa cum laude, from DePaul University (2016). She is admitted to practice in Illinois and the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
matters from early case assessment through discovery, depositions, mediations and dispositive motions in state and federal courts. Before rejoining the firm, he clerked for federal appellate and district judges, drafting bench memoranda, orders and opinions across civil, criminal and administrative matters. Chris earned his JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law (2018) and his BA from DePaul University (2012). He is admitted to practice in Illinois, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the Western District of Michigan.
Sarah M. Oligmueller is an associate in ArentFox Schiff’s complex litigation group, focusing on complex commercial disputes including insurance and reinsurance coverage, contract disputes and class actions.
She has experience preparing for and assisting with arbitration hearings, taking depositions and cross- examining a fact witness, and regularly drafts pleadings, motions, briefs and discovery. Sarah previously served as a judicial extern to Judge Franklin U Valderrama in the Cook County Chancery Division. Sarah earned her JD, cum laude (2020) from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and her MBA (2016) and BS (2015) from Nebraska Wesleyan University. She is admitted to practice in Illinois and the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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