Jason Kellerman

Senior Counsel at Malman Law
Chicago, IL14 years experience

About Jason Kellerman

Jason Kellerman is a Senior Partner at Malman Law in Chicago, where he has practiced since 2012. His practice focuses on the needs of seniors and elder family members, with an emphasis on nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, and probate matters. Jason earned his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in 2011 and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008.

Before joining Malman Law, he worked at the Law Offices of Barry Silver and clerked in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. He has secured millions of dollars in settlements for clients and was named an Emerging Lawyer by Leading Lawyers Magazine in 2019 and selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars in 2021. A native Chicagoan, Jason lives in the city with his wife and two sons.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Malman Law

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$5.5 millionVerdict

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, IL (Richton Park) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$5.5 millionVerdict

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, IL (Palos Heights) · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$3 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $3 million to the family of Norma Darnell, 76, who died of pneumonia after a nurse at Alden Courts of Waterford in Aurora gave her about ten times her prescribed hydromorphone dose.

Cook County Circuit Court, IL (Aurora) · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

DePaul University College of Law
Juris Doctor, 2011
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate, 2008

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois

Awards & recognition

Emerging Lawyer - Leading Lawyers Magazine (2019)
Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2021)

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