Overview
Zachary Fletcher is based in the firm’s Chicago office. His practice focuses on civil litigation, including the defense of transportation, construction, and catastrophic injury claims as well as the defense of complex local public entity, municipality, and labor and employment litigation. Zack also effectively counsels and litigates a wide variety of professional liability claims, including against architects and engineers. His litigation experience with professional liability claims is focused on defending engineering and architectural firms in delay disputes, payment disputes, design professional liability, design defects, and construction quality disputes.
His past experience includes the defense and trial of catastrophic injury cases, many of which as counsel on excess policies of insurance, arising from automobile and truck collisions, construction-site and premises incidents, as well as defense of complex commercial contracts, products liability, breach of warranty, and medical malpractice.
Zack is particularly adept at creative strategies, identifying pivotal evidence and razor sharp depositions. He takes great pride in his success on Daubert motions where he has successfully excluded plaintiff experts from offering testimony.
Zack graduated from Roosevelt University with a degree in Actuarial Science with a minor focus in Financial Services. He earned his law degree from the John Marshall Law School. While there, Zack worked for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and practiced as a 711 law clerk.
He is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In the past, he has been admitted pro hac vice to defend matters in California and Wisconsin.
Experience
Credentials
Education
- John Marshall Law School (J.D., 2006)
- Roosevelt University (B.A., 2002)
Licensed to Practice in
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana