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About Sam Harton
Sam Harton is a Senior Attorney at Romanucci & Blandin who puts her whole heart into her cases. She fights for her clients because she believes that powerful corporations and government entities must be held accountable when they prioritize profit, property, and power over the well-being of people. She primarily handles cases involving Prisoners' Rights violations in correctional facilities, but she is equally passionate about her cases involving Police Misconduct, Medical Malpractice and serious injuries resulting from dangerous Premises Liability cases. Sam is incredibly honored to represent the family of Alexis Sluder, a sixteen-year-old girl who lost her life inside a juvenile detention facility in Georgia, as well as families across the country who have lost their loved ones to the violence and cruelty of the punishment industry.
She also represents many families who have lost their loved ones to suicide in jail or prison. She strives to seek justice for her clients as well as broader, systemic reform to stop the rampant abuse of people affected by mass incarceration. Sam has been an Attorney with R&B since 2022 and her results include: a $13 million wrongful conviction settlement for a client falsely accused of killing his ex-wife; a $2 million settlement on behalf of a woman who died by suicide while in jail in Texas; and a $1.5 million settlement for the wrongful death of a man in the care of the State of Illinois. Prior to joining the firm, Sam was a Law Clerk for the Illinois Prison Project, where she is now a member of the Associated Board, and a Legal Extern for Justice Michael P. Donnelly at the Supreme Court of Ohio.
She has been featured in the media and on podcasts for her legal insights, particularly on prisoners' rights, and has been named to the Best Lawyers in America(R) Ones to Watch list and a Rising Star (2024-present) by Super Lawyers in Illinois. She earned her Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she served as president of the Public Interest Law Foundation and co-founded the Moritz Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College.In her free time, Sam enjoys rooting for the Cincinnati Bengals, coaching volleyball, and spending time with her husband and three cats.
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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