Helen Lucaitis

Chief Marketing Officer at Corboy & Demetrio
Chicago, ILAdmitted 1988

About Helen Lucaitis

Helen Lucaitis brings extensive legal journalism experience to her role as Chief Marketing Officer at Corboy & Demetrio. She previously worked as a reporter for Court TV and as a legal analyst and courts reporter for FOX5 News in New York City, accumulating 15 years in legal journalism with eight years at the national level. She holds an attorney's license and previously served as Deputy Attorney General in Indiana's Attorney General's Office.

Her reporting career included coverage of high-profile trials of Martha Stewart, Rosie O'Donnell, Jayson Williams, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, and others. She contributed to Court TV's nationally syndicated programs including Inside America's Courts, Prime Time Justice, and Pros and Cons with Nancy Grace.

Before joining Corboy & Demetrio, she founded LawyerUp Media, a legal public relations consulting firm. Since 2011, she has directed the firm's strategic marketing and media relations, notably handling the 2017 Dr. David Dao airline removal case, generating coverage by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, with live broadcast by CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg.

She serves on the Chicago Bar Association's History Museum Exploratory Committee and chairs the Board Marketing Committee at the Center for Disability & Elder Law. Previously, she held board positions with Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth and Elpides. She co-founded Avoca Diverse Learners, a support group for special needs families. In 2018, she received the Silver Trumpet Award from the Publicity Club of Chicago.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Corboy & Demetrio

These results are credited to Corboy & Demetrio. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A federal judge in Chicago entered a default judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran for a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq that killed Army Sergeant Joshua Soto and injured his platoon leader, First Lieutenant Miles Murray. Iran never appeared, and the court heard the plaintiffs' proof at a four-day evidentiary hearing. Murray was awarded $28 million, Soto's widow $32 million, and the couple's minor son $20 million, each including punitive damages.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Thomas Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio represented seven of the people killed and injured when a suspended work platform fell from the John Hancock Center in 2002, part of a $75 million global settlement reached on the eve of trial.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2006Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$42.4 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury found Advocate Condell Medical Center responsible for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father who suffered fatal baclofen withdrawal while waiting for a delayed surgery to replace his medication pump, and the verdict was later affirmed on appeal.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2022Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$29.6 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #7

A Cook County jury awarded commuter Renea Poppel $29.6 million after a Metra Rock Island train took a 10 mph crossover at 69 mph and derailed, the largest Illinois verdict for one person injured in a mass-transit crash.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2009Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$21.36 millionVerdict

In May 1990 a Cook County jury awarded $22,358,814 to a 23-year-old flight attendant who was left an incomplete quadriplegic when a semitrailer struck her stopped car from behind in Highland Park, Illinois, in November 1987. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed in January 1997 but cut the future medical care award by $1 million, so $21,358,814 stood.

Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (affirmed as modified, Illinois Supreme Court) · 1990Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

Indiana University McKinney School of Law
J.D., 1988
Saint Mary's College
Undergraduate, 1985

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois, admitted 2006
State Bar of Arizona, admitted 1989
State Bar of Indiana, admitted 1988

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.