O'Hagan Spencer

Professional Overview

Jamey Davidson is a Partner in our Chicago office. His practice focuses on the defense of lawyers, accountants, real estate agents/brokers and other professionals in professional negligence matters. He also counsels insurance companies in coverage-related matters and litigation and represents corporations and individuals in employment, products liability and commercial disputes. Jamey also represents condominium associations, their officers and Board of Directors in various matters.

Jamey has been published and frequently lectures on ethical issues and legal responsibilities of lawyers. He has written and lectured on damages in legal malpractice actions, on conforming law firm websites to the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct and on issues of attorney-client privilege and client confidentiality.

Education

Jamey received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2003, where he graduated cum laude. While at Loyola, he was a Senior Member of Loyola's Law Review, Loyola Law Journal, served as a legal writing tutor and was a National Champion at the Wagnor Labor and Capital Employment Law Moot Court competition, besting over 30 other schools.

Jamey received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Ball State University in 2000, where he graduate cum laude and was elected Student Government President.

Professional Organization Memberships

Chicago Bar Association: Co-chair of Professional Liability Committee of Young Lawyers Section 2009-2010

Member: Illinois Bar Association

News, Publications, & Speeches

• "Case-Within-A-Case Analysis Is Not Applicable to Transactional Legal Malpractice That Subjects a Client to Litigation", In The Loop, March 2011
• "The Growing Prevalence of Law Firm 'In House Counsel' and the Potential Attorney-Client Privilege Issues in Legal Malpractice Cases" (Featured Article in DRI "Riding the E&O Line", June 2010)
• "Does the '51- Percent Rule' Apply to Legal Malpractice Actions?" In The Loop, March 2011

• Faculty Speaker: Practicing Legal Ethics in the Electronic Law Office (March and September 2008).
• Avoiding The Ethical Issues With Law Firm Websites (Published by HalfMoon, LLC March, 2008).
•  Faculty Speaker: Understanding the Duty of Confidentiality and Attorney-Client Privilege and Current Ethical Issues. (November 2008, March and June 2009)
• Moderator: The New Rules of Professional Conduct (Chicago Bar Association, June 2010)
• Faculty Speaker: Metadata: Avoiding the Ethical Mine Fields (April and November, 2010)
• Moderator: Hot Topics in Professional Responsibility (Chicago Bar Association, December 2010)

Support Staff

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  • Jennifer Howard
  • (312) 422-6147
  • jhoward@ohaganspencer.com

Practice Areas

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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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  Condominium Associations

  As the saying goes "A man's home is his castle". If the castle is a condominium, then nowadays that castle is regularly under siege ...

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  Employment

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

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  Insurance Coverage

  Put an insurance policy in front of most lawyers and their eyes glaze over...

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  Lawyers & Accountants

  We can only imagine how the poor professional must cringe when...

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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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  Financial Services

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