Arlington Heights Personal Injury Law Firm Newland & Newland, LLP Named 2024 Elite Lawyers

Newland & Newland, LLP is thrilled to announce that their firm has been named an Elite Lawyer law firm for 2024. The recognized attorneys are Gary A. Newland, Stephen Newland, Jennifer H. Carroll, Katrine R. Fleishman, Erin A. Adamski, and Mary Pat Donohue. Elite Lawyer is the premier legal directory recognizing the highest-performing attorneys and law firms nationwide. When an attorney or law firm earns the status of Elite Lawyer, prospective clients can know and trust that their representation will be of the highest quality.

With over 30 years of experience, the hardworking attorneys at Newland & Newland take pride in providing legal assistance to those injured or looking to navigate a real estate, foreclosure, or estate planning matter. Our firm understands that regardless of what a client needs, whether they are injured, are looking to dispute a will, or even need legal assistance in selling their home, our attorneys strongly believe in providing compassionate and aggressive legal assistance to those in need.

While the firm mainly focuses on injury law, the awarded attorneys come to the table with unique skill sets. While attorneys Adamski, Donohue, and Gary Newland concentrate on injury law, attorney Fleishman works in real estate and estate planning law, attorney Carroll works in probate and foreclosure law, and attorney Stephen Newland handles real estate, estate planning, and foreclosure law. Newland & Newland is proud to have a team of lawyers with a wide range of legal capabilities.

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Chicago Area Legal Firm Promotes Three Attorneys to Partner

Newland & Newland, LLP, founded by brothers Stephen and Gary Newland, is proud to announce that three of the firm’s senior associate attorneys have been promoted to partner. Jennifer Carroll, Katrine Fleishman, and Erin Adamski are accomplished and skilled attorneys who have over 20 combined years with the firm. The law firm has multiple offices throughout the Chicago area and serves clients facing a wide range of legal matters, including personal injury, real estate, estate planning, and foreclosure defense.

Jennifer Carroll, who started with the firm in 2012, focuses her legal skillset on representing clients facing foreclosure, and defends more foreclosures than any lawyer in Lake County and practices in all counties of the Chicago area. Attorney Carroll, who serves as co-chair on the debtor-creditor committee of the Lake County Bar Association, also practices in the area of loan modifications, probate and trust administration. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Oregon School of Law.

Attorney Katrine Fleishman provides skillful representation for clients needing legal assistance with real estate transactions and estate planning. As a senior associate attorney with Newland & Newland for the last seven years, Attorney Fleishman regularly handles complex legal matters involving wills, trusts, and powers of attorney for health care and property. She volunteers with Wills for Heroes and serves as co-chair of the Lake County Bar Association real estate committee. Katrine has her law degree from Georgetown Law School and a degree from the London School of Economics.

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Newland & Newland, LLP Files Lawsuit Against Cracker Barrel After Illinois Woman Finds Parasitic Worms in Food

A woman allegedly found numerous small worms inside the fish filets she was eating at the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store in Gurnee, Illinois. Plaintiff Laura Sullivan had been visiting the chain restaurant when she allegedly discovered that the catfish she had already begun eating was filled with live parasitic worms. Her complaint alleges that she felt something moving in her mouth and simultaneously spotted movement on her plate. Sullivan became severely ill and suffered emotional distress. Newland & Newland, LLP is representing the plaintiff in Case # 23LA00000191 in Lake County, Illinois.

Sullivan’s complaint has raised multiple tort claims incorporating product liability, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The complaint states that Cracker Barrel allegedly served an unreasonably dangerous food product and that it did so out of carelessness toward the health and safety of its customers. Sullivan was treated for her food poisoning in two separate hospitals and continues to suffer severe anxiety related to eating.

The damages demanded in this case exceed the sum of $50,000 to cover Sullivan’s medical costs in addition to compensating her for her serious emotional distress. Evidence used to support Sullivan’s claims include a shocking photograph of the worms allegedly found inside the catfish filets. Documentation of her hospital care, including two emergency room visits, will be used to support the sum demanded.

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Northwest Suburban Bar Association Awards Timothy C. Evans Scholarship at Annual Meeting

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL - MAY 20, 2021

On May 20, 2021, the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA) held its annual meeting, where it awarded the Honorable Timothy C. Evans scholarship. Attorney Gary Newland hosted the meeting as president of the NWSBA, and Judge Timothy Evans was in attendance to honor the scholarship recipients Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi and Harper College President Avis Proctor spoke.

Each year, the Honorable Timothy C. Evans scholarship is awarded to a law student and, for the first time, paralegal students who reside in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, IL. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on factors including scholastic achievement, financial need, leadership skills, and involvement in extracurricular activities, community service, and other school activities.

The NWSBA awarded a $1,550 scholarship to a law school student. The recipient of this scholarship for 2021 is Emily Motin, a student attending Chicago-Kent College of Law. The NWSBA also awarded scholarships to two students who are attending the paralegal program at Harper Community College. The NWSBA funded a $1,550 scholarship, which was awarded to Mia O’Malley, and Newland & Newland, LLP funded a $1,550 scholarship, which was awarded to Chaltu Spray. The president of Harper Community College, Avis Proctor, was present at the meeting and spoke to honor the recipients.

President Newland took time during the meeting to thank those that supported initiatives to work with the community during the pandemic, ensuring that the Bar could make things a little bit better for families. The NWSBA’s initiatives allowed for over 100 financially challenged families to have a Thanksgiving dinner and provided over 100 holiday gifts to children. At the same time, members of the NWSBA were provided over 1,000 hours of training credit to retrain and retool during the pandemic.

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