1981 State of Illinois
United States District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois
United States District Court for the Federal District of
Illinois
Education:
DePaul University College
of Law, J.D. 1981
Member of the Illinois
State Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyer's Association,
& America's Trial Lawyer's Association
For the second year in a row, Jamie M Trapp has been named "ILLINOIS SUPER LAWYER" by Chicago Magazine, naming him as one of the top personal injury lawyers in the state.
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In 2006,Chicago Magazine named Jamie M. Trapp as a "Super Lawyer" in his concentration as an attorney specializing in personal injury.
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Jamie M. Trapp was born and raised in Chicago,
Illinois. Jamie grew up in a blue-collar working class
neighborhood in the city. He attended high school in Chicago
and graduated from DePaul University Law School. Since
1981, Jamie has concentrated as his specialty of practice
the representation of injured persons due to the negligence
of another. Jamie M. Trapp has represented clients throughout
the state of Illinois who have been seriously injured
due to car accidents, construction site negligence, medical
malpractice, unsafe products, and other types of injury-related
litigation.
Within five years after
graduating from law school, Jamie had obtained verdicts
and settlements that were widely reported in Chicago and
national news publications. Recently he negotiated a settlement
for $8 million dollars for a woman given the wrong medication
in an emergency room of a local hospital. At the beginning
of another trial, in the Spring of 2003, he settled with
a hospital and physician for $9.6 million dollars for
injuries to a newborn infant.
Jamie M. Trapp has been
the seminar planning Chairman for the Illinois Trial Lawyers
Association which provides continuing legal education
to attorneys practicing in the area. In 2002 Jamie was
editor of "Automobile Litigation in Illinois."
He was awarded the "President's Award" in 2002
from the Illinois Trial Lawyer's Association in recognition
of his service to that organization.
In 2006 and 2007, Jamie M Trapp was named an "Illinois Super Lawyer", a distinction awarded to the top 5% of all Illinois attorneys in his area of concentration of personal injury.
