Lise T. Spacapan is a litigator and Co-Chair of the Products Liability Practice.  Corporations seek her counsel on complex litigation matters ranging from class actions and medical monitoring claims to personal injury, property damage and indemnity disputes.  She has appeared in jury and bench trials in five states and has argued before Federal Appellate Courts for the Seventh and Eleventh Circuits and the Illinois Court of Appeals.  Ms. Spacapan’s experience with complex technical issues helps her develop engineering and scientific defenses that translate meaningfully to a judge and jury.

Ms. Spacapan has been consistently recognized by Leading Lawyer’s Network in the areas of Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law, Products Liability Defense Law, and Toxic Torts Defense Law.  In 2010, she was named one of the “Top 100 Leading Women Lawyers in Illinois.”  Ms. Spacapan is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability.  She is a member of the Firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation, Class Action and Environmental Litigation Practices.

She is a current National Director of DRI, the largest defense bar in the country, and Immediate Past Chair of DRI's -1400 member Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee.  She was also Program Chair/Vice Chair of the annual two-day DRI Toxic Tort and Environmental Law seminars that were held in 2006 through 2008.  She has written extensively on matters related to her practice, including editing a 43-chapter book published by PLI on Product Liability Litigation Strategies.  She spoke at the first ABA Product Liability Committee Institute on Chemicals and was on the faculty at the first Annual Judicial Symposium sponsored by the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence ("NFJE").