Jonathan Nessler

EducationBachelor of Science – Agricultural and Environmental Communications and Education University of Illinois, 2004Juris Doctorate University of Illinois, 2007MembershipsIllinois State Bar AssociationAmerican Bar AssociationIllinois Trial Lawyers’ AssociationAdmitted to PracticeSupreme Court of IllinoisUnited States District Court for the Central District of Illinois United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Supreme Court of the United States of AmericaPractice EmphasisMr. Nessler practices primarily in the areas of personal injury, premises’ liability, automobile negligence, nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, and catastrophic injuries. Professional AchievementsBarrister member of Lincoln-Douglas American Inn of Court November 2011 - PresentVice Chair – Law Practice Management Committee – American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division – 2011Chair – Law Practice Management Committee – American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division – August 2013 – August 2014The National Trial Lawyers: “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” – 2014 – PresentThe National Trial Lawyers: "Top 40 Under 40" - 2015 - Present The American Society of Legal Advocates: “Top 40 Under 40 Litigation lawyers in the State of Illinois” – 2016 - PresentLaw Bulletin Publishing Company’s Leading Lawyers Division: “Emerging Lawyer” – 2015 – PresentMember of ISBA Assembly – Illinois State Bar Association – Elected 2016 for a Three Year TermSpeaking Events and Published ArticlesSpeaker at the “Transportation Law Seminar" presented by the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Education Fund, March 27, 2010Speaker at the “Motor Vehicle Crashes from Occurrence to Trial – Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives,” February 15, 2012Speaker at the “IICLE Pre-Trial Preparation in Civil Practice Seminar – Requests to Admit or Deny,” March 30, 2012Moderator and Speaker at the “Advanced Evidentiary Issues at Trial,” January 31, 2013Speaker at the “ITLA Workers’ Compensation Seminar – Traveling Employees & Venture-Newberg, Perini, Stone & Webster v. IWCC,” November 2, 2013Speaker at the “Shotgun Seminar” Presented by the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Education Fund in St. Louis, Missouri – “Common Carrier Liability,” September 25, 2015“Lawyers in Small Firms and Solo Practice Must Understand Technology that Impacts the Practice of Law,” Published in The Bottom Line, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on Law Office Management & Economics in September of 2017Speaker at the “Medical Evidence for Lawyers” Presented by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education - “Securing Medical Records and Opinions, Conducting Discovery, Disclosure Requirements and HIPAA Issues,” November 3, 2017Speaker at the Lincoln-Douglas Inn of Court - “How Technologies Like Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain are Disrupting the Practice of Law and Why Lawyers Should Care,” November 15, 2017Speaker and Moderator for “Ethics Institute: Legal Tech” Presented by IICLE - “Emerging Technologies that are Predicted to Disrupt the Legal Profession,” June 6, 2018 “Law Firms Must Be Cautious About the Handling and Storage of Biometric Data,” Published in The Bottom Line, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on Law Office Management & Economics in September 2019Representative CasesVenture-Newberg Perini Stone & Webster v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n,2012 IL App (4th) 110847WCPrime Ins. Syndicate, Inc. v. Woods, 406 Ill. App. 3d 1225, 998 N.E.2d 722, 2011 Ill. App. Unpub. LEXIS 154, 376 Ill. Dec. 180, 2011 WL 11066011 (Ill. App. Ct. 4th Dist. 2011) (Rule 23 Order)Farris v. Sullivan, 2013 IL App (4th) 120753-U, 2013 Ill. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1142, 2013 WL 2387716 (Ill. App. Ct. 4th Dist. 2013) (Rule 23 Order)Crim v. Dietrich, 2016 IL App (4th) 150843