Dennis A. Marks, Of Counsel

Dennis Marks has 34 years of trial experience in a wide variety of cases for insurance and corporate clients.  This experience includes: defense of lawyer professional liability, personal injury claims, contract matters, shareholder derivative suits, RICO, admiralty claims, partnership dissolutions, specific performance, mandamus actions, will contests, trust disputes, commercial paper, bank suits, investigation and litigation involving financial institution and fidelity bond claims, construction litigation, and directors and officers liability.  He is distinguished as AV^® Preeminent^™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Marks has lectured for the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, and the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Council.

Mr. Marks is a Director of the Boothroyd Foundation, whose primary focus is Parkinsons research and the care of patients suffering from Parkinsons disease.  The Foundation funds local institutions and their research staff such as Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and its School of Nursing, and the University of Chicago.

Memberships

• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association
• Boothroyd Foundation
• Professional Liability Underwriting Society
• American Bar Association Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability
• City Club of Chicago

Community Involvement

• Dennis A. Marks is currently a member of Catholic Charities' Board of Advisors and was a member of both Cardinal Bernadin's and Cardinal George's Archdiocesan Council for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1995 to 2002. In 2001 and 2002, he served as Chairman of this Council. He has continuously served as Co-chair of "Leadership Day" for the Archdiocese of Chicago since 1999. Mr. Marks has been guest principal of Chicago's Patrick Henry School in the Chicago Board of Education "Principal for a Day" program each year since 1998.
• He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Boothroyd Foundation, a privately funded foundation dedicated to Parkinsons research, and support for local charities and civic organizations.

Representative Matters

Fakhouri v. Taylor, et al.,  618 N.E.2d 518, 248 Ill.App.3d 328, 187 Ill.Dec. 927, Nos. 1-91-3641, 1-92-1416. Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.  Wrongful death action brought against pharmacists who filled prescriptions on which customer allegedly overdosed.  The Circuit Court of Cook County granted pharmacists' motions to dismiss, and appeal was taken.  The Appellate Court held that pharmacists did not have duty to warn customer of prescribed dosages of medication allegedly in excess of manufacturer's recommended limits where pharmacists did nothing more than fill prescriptions as ordered by physician.