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Mr. Noland's practice focuses on the areas of civil rights litigation, commercial litigation and general tort litigation. Over the past five years, his cases have included defending multiple civil rights claims, billion dollar insurance coverage disputes, product liability, consumer finance, international child custody disputes under the Hague Convention, professional liability, and other matters.
The primary focus of Mr. Noland's recent practice has been civil rights litigation. On a variety of matters in federal and state courts, he has defended policy and practice allegations, supervisory liability claims, and Section 1983 actions on behalf of the municipal defendant as well as municipal officials and police officers. Mr. Noland has extensive experience in all aspects of civil litigation, is a member of the federal trial bar in the Northern District of Illinois, and has considerable experience with alternative dispute resolution.
Mr. Noland joined the firm as a law clerk in the summer of 1994 and has been affiliated with the firm since graduating second in his law school class in January 1996, except in 1998 when he practiced at Jenner & Block in Chicago. Mr. Noland's work has included trials in the federal and state courts, arguing appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Illinois Appellate Court, and trying arbitrations in several different venues. Mr. Noland routinely puts his clients in the most advantageous pre-trial and trial positions. The result for Mr. Noland's clients has been favorable dispositions whether by way of judgment, settlement, or appellate court opinion. | 