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About Daniel Barela
Daniel Barela is an Associate Attorney at Malman Law in Chicago, where he focuses on personal injury matters. A native of the Chicagoland area, Daniel joined the firm in 2024 after working as an associate at another Chicago personal injury and workers' compensation firm. He earned his Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2021, where he participated in the Plaintiff's Employment Clinic and earned a J.D. Certificate in Labor and Employment Law from the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace. Prior to law school he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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A Cook County jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Sandy Brooks, an 85-year-old dialysis patient who died after a Richton Park nursing home sent him to none of his scheduled treatments, tying the largest nursing home neglect verdict in county history.
A Cook County jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Bettye Patterson, 80, who struggled to breathe for about 20 minutes after a power outage shut off her supplemental oxygen at a Palos Heights nursing home.
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