James G. McConnell

• Batteast Construction v. Public Building Commission, 195 F.Supp.2d. 1045 (N.D.Ill. 2002)

• The Maxwell Street Historic Preservation v. University of Illinois, 2000 WL 1141439 (N. D. Ill. 2000).

• MCM Partners v. Andrews-Bartlett Assoc., 62 F.3d 967 (7th Cir. 1995).

• National Metal Finishings Corp. v. LaSalle Nat'l. Bank, 1995 U.S.Dist.LEXIS 15004 (N.D.Ill. 1995).

• Twin City Fire Ins. Co. v. Old World Trading Co., 266 Ill.App.3d 1, 639 N.E.2d 584 (1st Dist. 1994).

• Smith v. Cole, 256 Ill.App.3d 806, 632 N.E.2d 31 (1st Dist. 1993)

• Thompson v. St. Anne's Hospital, 716 F.Supp. 8 (N.D.Ill. 1989).

• United Air Lines v. CEI Industries, 148 Ill.App.3d 332, 499 N.E.2d 558 (lst Dist. 1986).

• Hatfield v. Sandoz-Wander, Inc., 124 Ill.App.3d 780, 464 N.E.2d 1105 (lst Dist. 1984).

• St. Francis Courts v. Investors Real Estate, 104 Ill.App.3d 663, 432 N.E.2d 1274 (lst Dist. 1982).

• Hagansee v. Galion, 93 Ill.App.3d 675, 417 N.E.2d 733 (lst Dist. 1981).

• McGrath v. Zenith, 651 F.2d 458 (7th Cir. 1981), cert. den. 454 U.S. 835, 102 S.Ct. 136, 60 L.Ed.2d 114 (1981).

• Pastor v. National Republic Bank, 76 Ill.2d 139, 390 N.E.2d 894 (1979).

• Century Display v. D.R. Wager, 71 Ill.2d 428, 376 N.E.2d 993 (1978).

• Wells v. Web Machinery Co., 20 Ill.App.3d 545, 315 N.E.2d 301 (1st Dist. 1974).

Experienced Advocacy 

Mr. McConnell will always do his best to arrive at an efficient, economical and prompt resolution to your construction situation. His years of experience on job sites are brought to bear in the effort to negotiate a fair result before the project is completed and closed out.

However, where the other party's intransigence makes a quick, fair and efficient soultion impossible, Mr. McConnell is fully prepared with 35 years of trial and appellate court experience to advance your position through arbitration or litigation, and to defend the result on appeal if necessary.