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Scott Clewis is a shareholder and co-managing partner of Clewis

Finn. He has established an impressive record of success litigating catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout Illinois and nationally. Since 2000, he has actively prosecuted numerous complex cases for a combined settlement and verdict value of over $25 million dollars.

Among Mr. Clewis' many impressive results include: a $ 4.5 million settlement in a Cook County product liability/wrongful death case involving a defectively manufactured pharmaceutical product; a $4.1 million-dollar record-breaking jury verdict in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case co-tried in Lake County, Illinois, involving the misdiagnosis of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a 75 year-old man; a $2.6 million settlement in a Kane County medical malpractice case involving obstetrical negligence resulting in a brain injured infant; a $2.05 million gross settlement in a medical negligence case co-tried in DuPage County, Illinois, involving the negligent administration of IV antibiotics resulting in a permanent balance disorder; a $2 million settlement in a Cook County case against a power company involving negligently maintained power lines resulting in a man's electrocution; a $1.8 million settlement in a Stephenson County case involving the misdiagnosis of breast cancer; a $1.2 million settlement in a Cook County nursing home negligence case involving the development and progression of pressure ulcers resulting infection to the bone; a $1.1 million settlement in a Cook County case involving a fatal automobile collision; a $1 million settlement in a Lee County medical malpractice case involving the misdiagnosis of kidney cancer; a $1 million settlement in a Cook County medical malpractice case involving surgical negligence; a $730,000 settlement in a Cook County nursing home negligence case resulting in infected pressure ulcers; and a $500,000 settlement in a Lake County wrongful death case involving a collision between two motorcycles, to name a few.

In 2003, Chicago Lawyer Magazine and the Law Bulletin Publishing Company named Scott R. Clewis as one of the "40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch in 2003." Recently, Mr. Clewis was invited to join the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization composed of the most prestigious group of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership in this organization is limited to only those attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.

Mr. Clewis sits on the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyer's Association. He is also a member of several other prominent legal associations, including the American Association of Justice, the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.

Prior to forming Clewis

Finn, Mr. Clewis practiced law at two prominent Chicago-area law firms. Recently, he was a partner and trial lawyer at the Chicago-based firm of Levin

Perconti. Before that, Mr Clewis spent six years as a trial lawyer at the prestigious Chicago and Waukegan-based law firm of Salvi Schostok

Pritchard, P.C.. Earlier in his career, Mr. Clewis served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable William J. Hibbler, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Clewis worked in the field of court administration serving as the Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk of the Juvenile Justice Division and Chief Deputy Clerk of the Child Protection Division in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. He also worked 5 years as a College and University administrator and educator.

Mr. Clewis was born and raised on Chicago's Northwest side. He graduated from William P. Grey Elementary School in 1979 and Gordon Technical High School in 1983. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1987. In 1990, he completed coursework in the Master of Arts Degree program in Education at Loyola University Chicago. In 1998, he graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Mr. Clewis proudly dedicates his legal career to the memory of his Father and Mother, the late Richard and Elaine Clewis. "My Mother and Father were the most honest, loving, and beautiful people I have ever known," said Mr. Clewis. "They remain my greatest inspiration."

Mr. Clewis is single and currently resides in Chicago.

education

Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1998

Loyola University Chicago, M.A. Program in Education, 1987-1990

University of Illinois at Urbana, B.A., English Honors Program, 1987

bar admissions

Illinois, 2000

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2000

awards/honors

presentations

University of Delaware, School of Business, "Obstacles to Case Settlement" (Spring 2005)

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, "Personal Injury and Product Liability Law" (Fall 2003; Summer 2007)

Dean's Program, Chicago Kent College of Law (Spring 2006; Spring 2007)

memberships

associations

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Member of Board of Managers

American Association of Justice

Illinois State Bar Association

Chicago Bar Association