About Serah James

Serah James is an Associate Attorney at Malman Law in Chicago, joining the firm in 2024. She began her legal career at a firm specializing in business litigation, trademark law, and landlord/tenant disputes before transitioning to personal injury law.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Malman Law

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

$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

University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Juris Doctor, 2022
Michigan State University
Undergraduate, 2018

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
Associate Justice on Moot Court Honors Council Executive Board (law school)

Awards & recognition

Top Five Respondent's Brief in law school moot court competition
Octofinalist in oral arguments

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$80 Million Default Judgment Against Iran for Iraq Roadside Bomb That Killed a Soldier and Injured His Platoon Leader
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$363 million · Sterigenics Verdict: $363 Million for a Willowbrook Cancer Survivor
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$110 million · American Eagle Flight 4184: $110 Million Crash Settlement and a Courtroom Apology
Power Rogers LLP
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$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
Romanucci & Blandin
Romanucci & Blandin
$98.65 Million Verdict for Family of Botham Jean, Shot in His Own Apartment by Off-Duty Dallas Officer

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