About Jay McDivitt
Jay M. McDivitt is an attorney at Cannon & Dunphy S.C. handling matters involving auto, motorcycle, and trucking accidents, slip and fall incidents, dog bites, and medical and nursing home malpractice.
McDivitt earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Marquette University Law School in 2021, where he made the Dean's List from 2017 through 2021 and participated in Moot Court, Law Review, and the Pro Bono Society (with High Honors). He published a comment in the Summer 2021 Marquette Law Review on judicial review in Wisconsin. Earlier, he earned a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2006 and a Bachelor of Arts in Peace Studies magna cum laude from Luther College in 2001. Before entering law, he served as an ordained pastor for 15 years.
McDivitt has been an attorney at Cannon & Dunphy since 2021. He is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is a member of the Wisconsin Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cannon & Dunphy S.C.
These results are credited to Cannon & Dunphy S.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.
A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.
An Ozaukee County jury awarded the estate of Judith Cisewski $15 million after a retaining wall at her Port Washington senior living campus collapsed and buried her under concrete blocks for roughly two hours; she died the following day.
The family of a three-year-old girl who died of E. coli traced to contaminated beef at a South Milwaukee Sizzler reached a $13.5 million settlement, among the largest food-borne-illness recoveries in the country.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
