O'Hagan Spencer

Professional Overview

After spending many years as an associate and partner at a large firm, Denean packed up her bag of clients and joined the O’Hagan Spencer team.  Her vast experience in the product litigation arena made her a perfect fit, but more importantly O’Hagan Spencer was the perfect fit for her clients who loved O’Hagan’s big firm lawyers with small firm service.  Whether large or small, fast or slow, there is no product Denean cannot defend with her keen sense of engineering concepts and amazing ability to translate those concepts to jurors.  Denean’s passion for her client and her client’s cause sets her apart from most, and breeds a belief in her case that no juror can ignore, as exemplified by the numerous favorable jury verdicts.  Denean’s product liability litigation experience has touched almost every aspect that could potentially involve her client or her client’s product, including product liability, breach of warranty, consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices, premises liability, contribution and indemnification, trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, invasion of privacy (right to publicity), and patent infringement, to name a few.  Denean’s vast “in-the-trenches” litigation and trial experience has made her the go-to partner on other types of complex cases, including director and officers, employment, breach of fiduciary duty and commercial litigation cases.  Occasionally, Denean is even called in to monitor difficult defense cases of which O’Hagan Spencer monitors and oversees strategy.  Denean is admitted to practice in states of Illinois and Wisconsin, and is admitted to practice before United States Supreme Court, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, and Central Districts of Illinois, the Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin, and the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.

Education

After graduating magna cum laude from University of Wisconsin (Parkside campus), Denean Sturino
continued the academic excellence when she graduated magna cum laude from John Marshall Law
School in January 1996. While at John Marshall, she was the recipient of an academic scholarship, an
editor of the Law Review, and an award winning Moot Court member.

Professional Organization Memberships

Member: Chicago Bar Association
Member: Wisconsin Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
Arbitrator for the Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program
United States District for the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar

News, Publications, & Speeches

• Summary Judgment in Cook County & Removal to Federal Court

Support Staff

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  • Jessica Fisher
  • (312) 422-6146
  • jfisher@ohaganspencer.com
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  • Paul Ketz
  • (312) 422-6131
  • pketz@ohaganspencer.com

Practice Areas

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  Architects & Engineers

  They’re the ones who design the buildings we work in and the roads we ride to get there...

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  Aviation

  Intellectually, we understand the principles of lift, thrust, weight and drag...

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  Class Actions

  Nowadays, whenever someone’s earnings are restated, one’s product is recalled or the screen...

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  Commercial Litigation

  It sometimes seems to us that the people who are writing contracts are stuck in...

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  Cyber Liability

  The information superhighway, along with its many branches, has undoubtedly...

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  Defamation

  Whoever made up "sticks and stones" may have been able to manage a schoolyard, but he didn't know much about the real world.

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  Directors & Officers

  Directors and Officers face scrutiny like never before...

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  Employment

  We’re a long way from the days when employers and employees...

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  Environmental

  We remember the days when bald eagles couldn’t hatch an egg, when the air was...

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  Financial Services

  One day, a GC we happened to know called in a hurry...

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  Marine Products

  Our expertise is not limited to land and air. We do battle at sea, too.

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  Medical Malpractice

  Every day in every city in America, doctors performs a medical miracle...

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  Patents

  We don’t prosecute patent applications. We don’t register patents...

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  Products

  We could tell you about all of the kinds of products we’ve defended...

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  Real Estate

  Acquisition. Development. Financing. Leasing. Sale. Litigation...

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  Securities

  Wall Street plays a zero sum game. For every winner, there's a loser...

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  Toxic Torts

  If we had to think of one thing that sums up the prevailing state of mind...

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  Trademarks

  We got our start in Trademarks with a phone call. The GC of a company...