Eric L. Samore
Eric Samore
Chicago
Illinois (IL)
Class Action/Mass Torts
Environmental Litigation
Business Litigation
Profile
Eric Samore is one of the founding partners of SmithAmundsen. He is chairperson of the firm's Class Action, Environmental and Toxic Tort practices. He concentrates his practice in defending a wide variety of class actions, business litigation, and environmental claims. He has defended more than 50 class actions, alleging consumer fraud, breach of contract, data privacy, and statutory violations in eight different states. In class actions, he has represented the world's biggest water company, one of the world's largest specialty pharmaceutical corporations, one of the world's major retailers, and one of the largest national litigation support firms. Eric has received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell for his legal ability and ethics. In addition, Eric was named a Leading Lawyer in class action/mass tort defense law, toxic torts defense law, products liability defense law, and personal injury defense law by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. Eric obtained the lowest wrongful death verdict in Cook County for the calendar year on an admitted liability case; the jury awarded only $30,000 to the decedent's husband of 33 years. He has also written numerous articles and been a frequent speaker on a variety of industry issues. Prior to private practice, Eric served as law clerk to Justice Allen Hartman of the Illinois Appellate Court.
Selected To
Illinois Super Lawyers 2012
Illinois Super Lawyers 2011
Illinois Super Lawyers 2010
Illinois Super Lawyers 2009
Illinois Super Lawyers 2008
Illinois Super Lawyers 2005
About Eric Samore
Admitted: 1981, Illinois
Professional Webpage: www.salawus.com/bio.aspx?group=about&cid=85&dir=S
Honors and Awards:
- Order of the Coif, Member University of Wisconsin Law Review, AV rating from MartindaleHubbell
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member: ABA, Section of Litigation, Class Action Committee; ABA,Toxic Torts and Environmental Litigation Committee; ABA Section of Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation Committee; National Forum for Environmental and Toxic Tort Issues; and DRI Class Action SLG Committee.
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Author, "Limiting the Risk of Class Action Litigation," SmithAmundsen Class Action Alert; Author, Defeating "TILA Class Actions," SmithAmundsen Newsletter, January 23, 2009. Presenter, "Defeating Class Actions: Finding the Weak Links in Plaintiffs' Suits," Client Presentation, September 22, 2008. Author, "Managing FACTA Lawsuits in Light of Recent Illinois District Orders," USLAW Network, February 2008. Author, "How to Minimize Your Risk of FACTA Liability in Credit or Debit Transactions," USLAW Network, May 2007. Speaker, "Improving the Bottom Line of Toxic Tort Defense," USLAW Network, March 18, 2006. Author, "Class Actions Under the TCPA," SmithAmundsen Newsletter, December 2004. Editor, SmithAmundsen Toxic Envonmental and Mss Tort Update, 2004 to present. Speaker, "Meeting the Mold Challenge," Lorman Education Seminar, March 2003.
Representative Clients:
- In class actions, he has represented the world’s biggest water company, an international specialty pharmaceutical company, one of the world’s major retailers, and one of the largest national litigation support firms. He has also represented owners, contractors, truckers, lenders, manufacturers, brokers, lawyers, distributors, restaurants, medical suppliers, hotels, and debt collectors in class action suits.
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- He defended the first TCPA class action, in which Judge McGann indicated that he would not certify the alleged class. (May 5, 2005 hearing.) At that time, McGann was presiding over 100 TCPA cases pending in Cook County. He obtained a dismissal of a leading national retailer in a class action for connsumer fraud for allegedly failing to disclose that certain merchandise had been used prior to its sale. (Chernoff, 99 C 12241) He was lead counsel for the defendant the first time that the Seventh Circuit accept a defendant's petition for leave to appeal an order certifying a TCPA class action. He obtained the first summary judgment awarded by a court in the Northern District of Illinois in a class action under FACTA on grounds that the statute does not provide a right of action for artificial entities.
Educational Background:
- University of Wisconsin, B.S., high honors
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