O'Hagan Spencer

Professional Overview

Chasity is a budding litigation attorney.  She focuses her practice on premises and products liability, with a concentration in the retail market.  She represents clients in both state and federal court.

Chasity is responsible for handling premises liability claims for major retail organizations, in which she conducts, drafts and argues dispositive motions, deposes witnesses, handles mandatory arbitration hearings, pre-trial conferences and all other aspects of the litigation process.  She also oversees her clients’ interest throughout the probate process for minors’ estates.

Chasity is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois, the Northern District of Illinois and admitted pro hoc vice to the Eastern District of Michigan.

Her legal affiliations include: the Illinois Woman’s Bar Association, the Black Women’s Lawyer Association and the Chicago Bar Association, where she serves as a brief and oral argument judge for the Young Lawyers Division Moot Court Competition.  She is also a member of the Duke in Chicago Alumni Club, as well as the Duke University Young Development Council.

Education

Chasity earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 2002 where she was a Doris Stroup Slane Trinity Scholar. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC where she was a Performance Scholar and a recipient of the Earl H. Davis Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement and community involvement. While in law school, Chasity was a student attorney for the Criminal Justice Clinic and served as the Co-Captain of the Charles Hamilton Houston National Moot Court Team, winning the “Distinguished Brief” award at the Whittier National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition in 2009.

Professional Organization Memberships

Member: American Bar Association
Member: Chicago Bar Association
Member: Black Women's Lawyer Association
Member: Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Support Staff

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  • Dolores Chavez
  • (312) 422-6162
  • dchavez@ohaganspencer.com

Practice Areas

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  Products

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