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About Benjamin Berkman
Benjamin A. Berkman is a Senior Attorney at Romanucci & Blandin on the respected Civil Rights team, where he represents plaintiffs in cases involving Civil Rights & Police Misconduct, Wrongful Convictions, abuse of Prisoners' Rights and other Constitutional violations. Prior to his role at Romanucci & Blandin, Ben served as the Chief Assistant Inspector General for Legal Counsel in the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG). In that capacity, he led and managed a team of attorneys who conducted investigations and performed legal analyses related to government corruption.
Misconduct, waste, fraud, and abuse. Before joining OIG, Ben was an associate at a large international law firm, where he handled all aspects of complex civil litigation and performed pro bono work in asylum, prisoner rights and election law matters. Ben earned his Juris Doctor with honors from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as a Senior Articles Editor for The University of Chicago Legal Forum, and participated in the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Northwestern University. Ben served as law clerk to The Hon. Jill Pryor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, The Hon. John Tharp of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and The Hon. Beth W. Jantz of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is admitted to practice in Illinois and New York, as well as in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. A resident of Chicago, Ben is an avid fan of professional and college basketball, with interests in independent rock music, film and screenwriting.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Romanucci & Blandin
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A federal jury awarded $98.65 million to the family and estate of Botham Jean after finding that former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger used excessive force and violated his constitutional rights when she entered his apartment and shot him in 2018.
A class of more than 1.2 million Chicago motorists received a $38.75 million settlement after plaintiffs proved the city collected red light and speed camera fines without giving drivers the second violation notice they were owed under the city's own municipal code.
Romanucci and Blandin recovered $30 million for a family whose infant son suffered permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy after a pediatric surgeon at Rush University Medical Center performed 25 experimental surgeries, severing the child's pulmonary artery during the final operation.
A Cook County jury awarded $28.7 million to the family of Jennifer Arrington-Cutaia, a 44-year-old Franklin Park woman who died after Gottlieb Memorial Hospital discharged her with a severely elevated white blood cell count and other abnormal lab values despite active Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome.
Ben Crump, with co-counsel Antonio Romanucci and L. Chris Stewart, negotiated a $27 million settlement between the family of George Floyd and the City of Minneapolis, announced by the family's lawyers as the largest pretrial settlement of a civil rights wrongful-death claim in American history. The city council approved the payment unanimously in March 2021, while jury selection in Derek Chauvin's murder trial was underway blocks away.
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