Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Donald Patrick Eckler
07/06/2021
Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Donald Patrick Eckler
Goldberg Segalla added Donald Patrick Eckler to the firm’s Management and Professional Liability group in Chicago.
Pat is a highly experienced litigator who focuses his practice on defending lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers, and other professionals in a variety of civil disputes in state and federal courts across Illinois and Indiana. His practice ranges from representing insurers in coverage disputes to defending professionals, businesses, and tort defendants in complex litigation. Pat’s commercial litigation experience involves complex contract disputes and class-action lawsuits. His coverage practice for insurers and the insured involves commercial general liability and personal lines policies, issues involving the duty to defend and indemnify, bad faith, and the application of exclusions. His tort defense work spans the representations of product manufacturers and distributors, trucking and transportation clients, and premises owners. Drawing on his experience as a college basketball coach, Pat has also represented a coach before the NCAA Committee on infractions.
Pat is active in the organized defense bar both at the state and national level. He is a committee chair, columnist, and board member with both the Illinois Defense Counsel and the Professional Liability Defense Federation. He has also published extensively in professional journals on a wide range of topics, including legal ethics, attorney-client privilege, and Illinois and federal civil procedure. He has also published on substantive areas of law ranging from products liability and toxic torts to premises liability and claims against accountants.
Pat earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his juris doctor from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.
Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Donald Patrick Eckler
Goldberg Segalla added Donald Patrick Eckler to the firm’s Management and Professional Liability group in Chicago.
Pat is active in the organized defense bar both at the state and national level. He is a committee chair, columnist, and board member with both the Illinois Defense Counsel and the Professional Liability Defense Federation. He has also published extensively in professional journals on a wide range of topics, including legal ethics, attorney-client privilege, and Illinois and federal civil procedure. He has also published on substantive areas of law ranging from products liability and toxic torts to premises liability and claims against accountants.
Pat earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his juris doctor from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.
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