CHICAGO, IL – Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that trial lawyer Theresa L. Davis will join the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Business Litigation Department. With a strong background in securities and financial services litigation, Davis will continue to focus her practice on complex commercial litigation matters at the firm.

Davis litigates and advises clients with respect to federal and state securities law issues, corporate governance matters, purchase price disputes, breach of fiduciary duties, contract disputes, business torts, executive-level employment disputes and consumer class actions. She also conducts internal investigations for corporate clients, special committees and boards of directors, and has substantial experience handling matters involving the interaction between regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings and civil lawsuits.

Michael Beck, the firm’s Co-Chair said, “Her ‘first chair’ experience in class action defense, criminal investigations, securities and financial services litigation complements our national team of corporate trial lawyers.”

Davis brings to Loeb a diverse client base of companies and individuals in a variety of industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, consumer lending, consumer services, insurance, metals and chemicals, retail and technology.

“Our business litigation practice has been rapidly expanding to assist clients in an evolving range of matters. Theresa’s addition reflects our strategic response to that growth and our commitment to provide innovative representation in these changing times,” said Co-Chair John Frankenheimer.

Robert Andalman, Co-Chair of the firm’s Business Litigation Department and a partner in the Chicago office added, “The addition of Theresa to our business litigation team in Chicago, and to our national department, will further solidify our clients’ expectations of the very best in business trial representation.”

In addition to her practice, Davis is a frequent lecturer on class actions, securities litigation, corporate governance, internal investigations, primary liability for secondary actors under § 10(b), options backdating, tactical positioning of a certified class action, and a wide variety of diversity-related topics. She received her J.D. with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology (1994) and her B.A., with Highest Distinction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining to Loeb & Loeb, Davis was a partner in the Chicago office of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

Loeb & Loeb’s Chicago office has grown steadily in recent years to meet client demands; the number of attorneys practicing there has tripled since 2006. Davis is one of five lateral hires who has joined in Chicago in the past two years. She will work closely with the six partners and 10 associates who handle business litigation matters from the Chicago office, as well as support the deep bench of litigators across all offices of the firm.

Comprised of over 100 attorneys nationwide, Loeb & Loeb’s Business Litigation Department is the firm’s largest department, defending and prosecuting high-stakes cases at every level of the federal and state court systems, and in mediation, arbitration and regulatory agency proceedings. Clients range from Fortune 500 companies to individuals facing litigation involving matters of securities; white collar crime; corporate compliance and investigations; intellectual property; patents; employment laws; consumer protection; unfair competition; marketing and advertising; trusts and estates; bankruptcy; and restructuring and creditors’ rights. For more information please visit Loeb & Loeb’s Business Litigation webpage.

Loeb & Loeb is a multi-service national law firm with nearly 300 attorneys focusing on select practice areas, rather than endeavoring to be all things to all clients. Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2009, the firm is recognized as a leading law firm in the areas of advanced media, finance, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights, entertainment, litigation, intellectual property, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, technology, advertising and promotions and tax and wealth services. Loeb & Loeb has four domestic offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Nashville, and the firm has applied to open a representative office in Beijing to serve a rapidly growing number of Asian clients.

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