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15 HeplerBroom Attorneys Named 2026 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

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Tammera E. Banasek
Tammera E. Banasek
Tammy Banasek is a dedicated litigator who has developed a special focus in defending medical and dental professionals, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities. She also counsels physicians and dentists in professional licensing matters.
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Beth A. Bauer
Beth A. Bauer
Whether representing Fortune 50 companies in high-stakes class or mass actions or a local non-profit needing help, Beth A. Bauer balances creative, tenacious advocacy with a calm, commanding demeanor. Clients benefit from her experience as an appellate clerk and practitioner as she strategizes from a broad perspective and gains intricate understanding of the details that make the difference.
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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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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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Chelsea L. Caldwell
Chelsea L. Caldwell
Chelsea L. Caldwell defends professional liability cases, including individual healthcare practitioners and institutions. She has extensive litigation and trial experience, including first and second chair verdicts in Cook and its collar counties.
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Matthew B. Champlin
Matthew B. Champlin
With over 20 years of litigation experience, Matthew B. Champlin emphasizes pragmatism, cost-effectiveness, and innovative problem-solving to secure the best possible outcomes for his clients in complex litigation matters.
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James P. Duchateau
James P. Duchateau
James P. DuChateau concentrates his practice exclusively on insurance coverage, with an emphasis on first-party property for both commercial and personal lines. For the last 15 years, he has counseled carriers throughout the country on high exposure claims and coverage issues including appraisal, arson, business interruption, collapse, coinsurance, intentional acts, ordinance and law, insurable interest, mortgagee and loss payee rights, assignment of benefits, vandalism, late notice, vacancy, and all manner of questions surrounding direct physical loss.
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Daniel C. Lytle
Daniel C. Lytle
With nearly two decades of experience, Daniel C. Lytle has established a distinguished career as an attorney. He’s earned a reputation for his thoroughness, strategic thinking, and unwavering commitment to achieving favorable outcomes for his clients. His extensive trial experience and broad legal knowledge make him a trusted advocate in both straightforward and high-stakes legal matters.
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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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Michael P. Murphy
Michael P. Murphy
Michael P. Murphy is an experienced litigator who focuses on helping clients with environmental issues, both before and after a lawsuit is filed.
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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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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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Aleen R. Tiffany
Aleen R. Tiffany
Aleen R. Tiffany focuses her practice in complex civil litigation and corporate construction matters, including: Construction Injury & Defect Litigation, Construction Contract & Risk Transfer, Complex Civil & Commercial Litigation, Commercial General Liability Coverage w/ Risk Transfer focus, and Mechanics’ Lien & Surety Bond Claims & Litigation.
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Stephanie W. Weiner
Stephanie W. Weiner
Stephanie W. Weiner defends personal injury cases. These are primarily in construction, premises, municipal and §1983 claims, and contractual matters, including risk transfer.
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HeplerBroom is proud to announce that 13 of its attorneys have been named 2026 Illinois Super Lawyers, and 2 have been named 2026 Illinois Rising Stars by Super Lawyers Magazine.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. Only 5% of attorneys are selected as Super Lawyers, and only 2.5% are selected as Rising Stars.

HeplerBroom’s attorneys included in the list of 2026 Super Lawyers, with their respective practice areas, are:

Tammy Banasek – personal injury medical malpractice-defense

Beth A. Bauer – personal injury products-defense

Brenda G. Baum – class action

Troy A. Bozarth – general litigation

Matthew Champlin – personal injury general-defense

James P. DuChateau – insurance coverage

Daniel C. Lytle – personal injury general-defense

Eric W. Moch – personal injury general-defense

Michael P. Murphy – environmental litigation

Anne M. Oldenburg – professional liability-defense

W. Jason Rankin – class action

Aleen R. Tiffany – construction litigation

Stephanie W. Weiner – personal injury medical malpractice-defense

Chelsea L. Caldwell (personal injury medical malpractice-defense) and Joseph Fay (insurance coverage) are included in the list of 2026 Rising Stars.

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