| Judge Deborah Mary Dooling Judge Deborah Mary Dooling is assigned to the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. She presides over a jury room and hears pretrial conferences, dispositive motions, jury and bench trials and post-trial matters. From June of 1997, to April of 2003 and then from February 2004 to present, the numerous jury trials over which Judge Dooling has presided include multi-party actions for medical and legal malpractice, personal injury, breach of contract, product liability, and Structural Work Act. A number of these were lengthy, highly publicized, and complex; additionally, several of the cases involved third-party actions for contribution and indemnity. One such trial in a contribution case Willis v. Guzman, et al. No. 98L 3127 involved the invocation of the 5th Amendment by parties and witnesses in a civil trial. ...for more information, click here |
