Chad Emerson Bell

2006, Illinois

and was co-director of the Peer Advisor Program.Since graduating from law school, Mr. Bell's practice has focused on complex civil litigation in the areas of securities, antitrust, consumer class action, and commercial/contract disputes at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts. Highlights of Mr. Bell's career prior to joining Korein Tillery include: arguing to the en banc Seventh Circuit on behalf of a federal death row prisoner challenging a Bureau of Prisons policy that bars male federal death row inmates from speaking face-to-face with the press; representing a manufacturing client in a successful federal jury trial to recover millions of dollars in costs of a product recall from a supplier who provided defective parts; lobbying the Illinois legislature on behalf of state prisoners seeking additional educational opportunities; obtaining a successful settlement on behalf of a class of funeral home directors against their investment advisors related to losses incurred by pre-need funeral trusts; and defending a manufacturing client against Sherman Act, Clayton Act, and Lanham Act claims brought by a competitor alleging the manufacturer engaged in anticompetitive bundling and exclusive contracts. Mr. Bell has also authored articles on e-discovery matters for the Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal.At Korein Tillery, Mr. Bell's is currently representing investors seeking to recover losses related to their investments in residential mortgage-backed securities against securities underwriters and trustees. He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Michigan (pending), and before the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern District of Illinois and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Member: Illinois; District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern District of Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.