Nursing Home Defense: Countering the Noncompliance Narrative, Proving Unavoidability, Diffusing Emotional Evidence

Mr. Conley has significant experience in litigation in a variety of areas with an emphasis in health care litigation involving hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. He also is experienced in health care regulatory matters, including issues involving federal and state regulations and licensing, survey and certification.

Ms. Connors concentrates her practice in the representation of health care providers and facilities and has also defended claims of product liability. She has been in practice since 1992. Attorney Connors is a highly regarded trial attorney, having successfully defended high exposure medical malpractice claims on behalf of physicians and care providers, acute care hospitals, long-term rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies. The cases her clients have entrusted to her to defend have involved nearly every specialty of medicine and a wide variety of issues. The cases Ms. Connors has defended have included catastrophic injuries and death. She has long had a busy trial practice, including one malpractice case where evidence was conducted over the course of ten weeks. Further, Ms. Connors has successfully handled the appeals of those matters following jury verdicts in favor of her clients.

Ms. Valentino is a member of the firm’s Long-Term Care and Elder Law, Healthcare, and Medical Malpractice Practices. She has engaged in numerous arbitrations and mediations and successfully tried to verdict multiple medical malpractice cases on behalf of physicians, nurses and hospitals, long-term care facilities and its employees. Ms. Valentino is the past President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.