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28 HeplerBroom Attorneys Honored with Inclusion on 2025 Best Lawyers Lists

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Brenda G. Baum
Brenda G. Baum
Brenda G. Baum focuses her practice on mass tort lawsuits involving products liability. Since 2001, she has represented product manufacturers, sellers, and premises defendants in thousands of cases pending in some of the most plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions in Illinois and Missouri, in addition to overseeing cases filed in other plaintiff-oriented jurisdictions such as California, Louisiana, New York, and others.
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Alex Belotserkovsky
Alex Belotserkovsky
Alex Belotserkovsky focuses his practice on trials involving complex litigation matters, including asbestos cases and toxic tort issues. He has decades of civil litigation experience.
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LaDonna Boeckman
LaDonna Boeckman
Making the complex simple and understandable drives the way LaDonna L. Boeckman works with medical professionals and other clients in the healthcare industry. It’s also how she explains complex medical concepts to juries of lay people at trial. Drawing on her keen appreciation for research and leaving no stone unturned, she uses the information uncovered to shape the defense of hospitals, long-term care facilities, and medical providers and to craft a message to the triers of fact and law.
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Troy A. Bozarth
Troy A. Bozarth
Mr. Bozarth focuses his practice on trials involving complex commercial litigation matters, including Antitrust Law, Banking, Class Actions, Jones Act, Maritime Law, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, and Products & Agriculture.
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Melissa S. Brown
Melissa S. Brown
Since 2014, Melissa S. Brown has developed a robust environmental law practice in which she assists businesses on a wide variety of environmental issues. Clients regularly rely on her to provide counsel on complying with federal and Illinois environmental statutes and regulations.
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Glenn E. Davis
Glenn E. Davis
Experience matters. For over 40 years, Glenn Davis’ unwavering commitment to clients has been the delivery of creative and efficient results in dynamic business disputes and cybersecurity challenges. His mission is to provide high-quality, cost-effective, and innovative legal solutions while adhering to the highest ethical standards and professional values. Sound legal judgment and strategic risk management dictate whether trial advocacy or alternative dispute resolution is the best path.
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Meg L. Fowler
Meg L. Fowler
Meg L. Fowler focuses her practice on trials involving multiple issues, including: General Personal Injury, Professional Liability, Product Liability, Insurance Coverage Issues, and Transportation
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Eric W. Moch
Eric W. Moch
Eric W. Moch focuses his practice on the defense of claims involving insurance fraud, including medical provider fraud, organized activity and staged and caused losses, as well as first- and third-party coverage and bad faith defense. His insurance fraud practice entails the defense of insurers and their insureds against fraudulent claims at trial and the pursuit of civil recoveries for insurance clients, which has resulted in financial recoveries against fraud perpetrators.
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Anne M. Oldenburg
Anne M. Oldenburg
Anne M. Oldenburg is a highly successful malpractice defense lawyer with extensive trial experience. The depth and breadth of her success at trial (mostly in Cook County, Illinois) is what her clients want and need. Her involvement in the defense of malpractice in and outside the courtroom has also solidified her role as a leader in her field, and she’s earned the respect of clients, the courts, her colleagues, and her opponents.
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Benjamin W. Powell
Benjamin W. Powell
Benjamin W. Powell specializes in the defense of a variety of claims, including: Product Liability, Personal Injury/Wrongful Death, Breach of Contract, Professional Liability, Insurance, and Trucking & Transportation.
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W. Jason Rankin
W. Jason Rankin
W. Jason Rankin focuses his practice on trials involving complex litigation matters, including class actions, pharmaceutical litigation, product liability, and insurance defense. He regularly represents clients in multi-million-dollar litigation relating to nationwide class actions and product liability claims. Mr. Rankin represents clients in both Illinois and Missouri and has obtained favorable jury verdicts and arbitration awards on behalf of the defendants.
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Jamie M. Rein
Jamie M. Rein
For more than 20 years, Jamie M. Rein has provided legal services throughout the Illinois counties of McHenry, Lake, DuPage, and Cook. She often collaborates with in-house counsel, national counsel, insurers and insured, and other company representatives to develop a practical legal strategy to meet her clients’ needs.
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Brittany D. Shoaff
Brittany D. Shoaff
Brittany D. Shoaff defends clients in trials involving complex business litigation matters, especially toxic torts. She enjoys researching the facts that make each case unique and devising cost-effective strategies tailored to individual cases. Clients particularly value her deposition-taking skills. Her desire to help clients is what propelled her to want to be an attorney.
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Bharat Varadachari
Bharat Varadachari
Bharat Varadachari focuses his practice on defending insurance companies in extra-contractual litigation as well as trials involving complex business litigation matters.
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Katie F. Vinge
Katie F. Vinge
Katie Fulara Vinge defends clients in civil litigation, with a focus on construction injury and defect and professional liability. Her clients appreciate both her advocacy and her pragmatic approach in order to best frame a defense that fits each client’s unique needs. Her experience and concern allow clients to have an overarching understanding of the legal process and how it directly impacts them. Ms. Vinge represents corporate and individual clients in both state and federal courts.
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Audra L. Zobrist
Audra L. Zobrist
Audra L. Zobrist defends clients in asbestos and toxic tort products and premises liability cases. Although she represents defendants from a broad range of industries, she understands that every client is unique and has distinct business goals. These unique factors guide how she develops the appropriate legal strategy for individual clients. Her clients also depend on her vast industry knowledge to develop solutions that fit their needs.
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Larry E. Hepler
Larry E. Hepler
Larry E. Hepler focuses his practice on the defense of complex, multiparty civil cases and class actions involving a wide range of subjects, including all aspects of consumer fraud, personal injury, products liability, pharmaceutical, commercial, toxic torts, construction, and insurance litigation. He has represented clients in numerous jurisdictions, with a primary emphasis in Illinois and Missouri.
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Eric P. Hall
Eric P. Hall
Eric P. Hall leans upon his years of work developing and cross-examining experts to build unique and aggressive courtroom trial strategies. He has been first chair trial counsel in asbestos cases and other civil matters and is frequently called upon by clients across the country who trust his ability to deliver an organized and outstanding trial performance. As a past amateur boxer, he is no stranger to pressure and excels in courtrooms just as he did in the “squared circle.”
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Theodore J. MacDonald, Jr.
Theodore J. MacDonald, Jr.
Theodore J. MacDonald, Jr., currently focuses his practice on mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He is a Certified Neutral for USDC Eastern District of Missouri and a member of the Approved Mediator Panel List for the USDC Southern District of Illinois.
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Thomas J. Magee
Thomas J. Magee
Thomas J. Magee focuses his practice on trials involving complex litigation matters, including: Products Liability, Professional Liability, Commercial Litigation, General Personal Injury, Trucking, and Automobile
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HeplerBroom is proud to announce that 18 of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, 10 of its attorneys are included in Best Lawyers’ list of Ones to Watch.

Best Lawyers has been published for over three decades. It is the oldest and one of the most respected peer review publications in the legal profession. Recognition in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor.

Attorneys on the Best Lawyers list, with their respective practice areas, are:

Assouad, Justin L. – Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

Bauer, Beth A. – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants

Baum, Brenda G. – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants

Bozarth, Troy A. – Litigation-Insurance

Davis, Glenn E. – Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation, Franchise Law, Information Technology Law, Litigation-Antitrust, Litigation-Intellectual Property, Litigation-Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation-Securities

Fowler, Meg L. – Insurance Law, Litigation-Insurance, Litigation-Labor and Employment

Hall, Eric P. – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants

Hamilton, Kathleen S. – Litigation-Insurance, Professional Malpractice Law-Defendants

Hepler, Larry E. – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants

Insler, Charles N. – Commercial Litigation

MacDonald, Theodore J. Jr. – Bet-the Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

Magee, Thomas J. – Litigation-Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law-Defendants

Marusic, Irene J. –Insurance Law, Litigation-Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, Product Liability-Defendants

Moch, Erich W. – Insurance Law

Oldenburg, Anne M. – Medical Malpractice Law-Defendants

Powell, Benjamin W. – Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants

Rankin, W. Jason – Product Liability Litigation-Defendants

Varadachari, Bharat – Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

Attorneys on Best Lawyers’ Ones to Watch list, with their respective practice areas, are:

Belotserkovsky, Alex – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, Workers’ Compensation Law-Employers

Boeckman, LaDonna L. – Health Care Law, Medical Malpractice Law-Defendants

Brown, Melissa S. – Environmental Law

Jansen, Sarah B. – Construction Law, Insurance Law

McGonigle, Adam S. – Insurance Law, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants, Transportation Law

Rein, Jamie M. – Construction Law

Roman, Emily D. – Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

Shoaff, Brittany D. – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants

Vinge, Katie F. – Construction Law

Zobrist, Audra L. – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants

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