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David E. Rapoport is the founder of Rapoport Law
Offices, P. C. He has a national practice that is
limited to handling serious personal injury and
wrongful death cases on behalf of victims. A
veteran attorney, Mr. Rapoport has obtained
numerous million and multi-million dollar
settlements and verdicts for his clients.1
Admitted to
practice law before the Supreme Court of the
United States and many lower courts, he is also
certified as a civil trial attorney and serves as
the Illinois State Coordinator for the National
Board of Trial Advocacy.2
Mr. Rapoport has
successfully handled all types of personal injury
and wrongful death cases including medical
malpractice, product liability, premises
liability, collision and transportation negligence
cases. He has obtained record high jury verdicts
on behalf of clients in Illinois, Wisconsin and
Ohio.
Many of Mr.
Rapoport's cases have involved major air
disasters. For example, he is currently a member
of court appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committees
in cases arising out of the crashes EgyptAir
Flight 990, American Airlines Flight 1420 and
Swissair Flight 111. Mr Rapoport served as lead
trial attorney in the USAir Flight 1016 liability
case and was selected to act as the lead trial
attorney in consolidated federal cases arising out
the crash of United Airlines Flight 232. He was
also a member of the Lead Counsel Committee in
multi-district federal litigation arising out of
the crash of American Eagle Flight 3379 and has
successfully represented clients in cases arising
out of the following major commercial air
disasters: United Flight 811 (Hawaii, 1989),
United Flight 232 (Iowa, 1989), United Flight 585
(Colorado, 1991), USAir Flight 405 (New York,
1992), USAir Flight 1016 (North Carolina, 1994),
USAir Flight 427 (Pennsylvania, 1994), American
Eagle Flight 3379 (North Carolina, 1994), United
Express Flight 5925/5926 (Illinois, 1996),
Swissair Flight 111 (Nova Scotia, 1998), American
Airlines Flight 1420 (Little Rock, 1999), and
EgyptAir Flight 990 (Near Rhode Island, 1999). He
has also handled numerous general aviation cases.
Frequently interviewed concerning his work by
television, radio and newspaper reporters, Mr.
Rapoport was featured on the television program,
60 Minutes, in the segment entitled "Open and
Shut Case?", a discussion of some of the
unexpected issues that plane crash victims or
their family members may encounter in the
aftermath of an air disaster.
In Anderson
J.,The Lost Art: An Advocate's Guide to Effective
Closing Argument (S.C. Bar 1999), United States
District Court Judge Joseph Anderson, who presided
over the USAir Flight 1016 trial, published an
excerpt of Mr. Rapoport's successful closing
argument to the jury in that case as an example of
attacking an opponent's case "in the right
way." In Kellett, "Closing
Arguments" (West 1998 and 1997 Cum. Supp);
"Handling Accident Cases" Ch. 109, p.
154-163 (1989) the authors explained: "[e]specially
noteworthy is Mr. Rapoport's clear presentation of
the medical facts and elicitation of the expert's
opinion..." Mr. Rapoport is also an author.
For example, see Rapoport, D.E. "Trial and
Evidentiary Issues in Wrongful Death
Actions," Wrongful Death and Survival Actions
in Illinois (Illinois Institute for Continuing
Legal Education, 2000).
Mr. Rapoport
earned his Bachelor's of Science in Finance from
Northern Illinois University in 1978, where he was
on the Dean's List. He received his J.D. degree
with the highest available honors from the
Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent
College of Law in 1981, where he served on the Law
Review. Mr. Rapoport earned two certificates for
post graduate training in trial advocacy, one from
the Lawyer's Post Graduate Institute (1982), the
other from the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association
College of Advocacy (1983).
He is a member of
numerous bar associations including the American,
Illinois, Chicago, Lawyer-Pilots and Northwest
Suburban Bar Associations. He is a sustaining
member of both the Illinois Trial Lawyers'
Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers
of America, is a member of Trial Lawyers for
Public Justice and the Roscoe Pound Foundation.
Mr. Rapoport has been listed in numerous Who's Who
publications including Who's Who in the Midwest,
Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who's
Who in American Law and Who's Who Worldwide. He is
also listed in Law & Leading Attorneys and
serves in an "of counsel" to the Chicago
firm of Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein and
Johnson, where he began practice in 1981. Mr.
Rapoport has also acted as a guest lecturer for
professors at the IIT- Kent College of Law and
given numerous speeches over the years to various
groups concerning the rights of injured persons in
our civil justice system.
1
Past results are not a guarantee or promise
concerning future results.
2
NBTA certification is not required to practice law
in Illinois. The
Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize
certifications of specialties in the practice of
law and that the certificate, award or recognition
is not a requirement to practice law in Illinois.
Illinois Rules of
Professional Conduct Rule 7.4(c)(2) (1997).
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