Paulette Chapman
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About Paulette Chapman
Paulette E. Chapman is a partner at Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP in Washington, D.C., with nearly four decades of experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, and workers' compensation law. She has represented plaintiffs since 1988. Chapman is a longtime leader in the D.C. legal community, serving as past President of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2007-2008), the Women's Bar Association of D.C. (2003-2004), and The Barristers (2013-2014); current President of the Council for Court Excellence (2025-2026); and a former member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors (2006-2012). She is a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has co-lectured the D.C. Bar CLE Essential Trial Skills Series on Jury Selection.
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A Washington, D.C. jury awarded $3.05 million against a pediatrician who failed to send a feverish child for emergency care before an invasive Group A strep infection and toxic shock cost him both legs, and the trial court entered a net judgment of $1,525,000 after the hospital's pro rata settlement credit.
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