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Gail Niemann

Massey & Gail LLP
50 East Washington Street
Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60602
Office: 312.283.1590
Direct: 312.626.2714
Fax: 312.379.0467
   
Gail Niemann
Of Counsel

Gail Niemann is a seasoned trial lawyer who has represented corporations, individuals, and governmental bodies over more than forty-five years of practice in Chicago. She handled high-stakes disputes involving class actions, consumer fraud, securities fraud, competition issues, contract disputes, and the defense of tort and employment litigation. She also advises senior management on professional responsibility and ethics.

Gail began her career at Jenner & Block, where she rose from associate to equity partner. She later served as a senior litigation manager in the corporate law department of a Fortune 100 telecommunications company and has held senior litigation roles and General Counsel positions for multiple governmental bodies.

In addition to her practice, Gail taught trial practice at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

  • Prepared key witnesses as part of the successful defense of JPMorgan Chase & Co. at trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in a case that involved two wealthy foreign nationals who claimed they had been defrauded by their former business partners.
  • Principal drafter of complaint and dispositive and procedural motions in connection with the representation of the Illinois Department of Insurance, as liquidator of an insolvent health insurance company, in an ultimately successful challenge to the authority of the federal government to act to benefit itself as a creditor without approval of the State liquidation court.
  • Advised members of municipal board regarding termination of its executive director.
  • Successfully settled a 12-year-old tort case involving a claim of traumatic brain injury in a New York City state court.
  • Primary drafter of petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of South African nationals challenging the dismissal of their claims against IBM and Ford relating to apartheid.
  • Represented witnesses in connection with internal, FBI and SEC investigations.

  • University of Illinois Law School, J.D. magna cum laude; Order of the Coif, 1979
  • University of Chicago, M.A., 2011
  • Eastern Illinois University, B.A. with high honors, 1974

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • Illinois

  • “Historic Preservation and Transferable Development Rights,” University of Illinois Law Review (1978)

  • Volunteer, Sealing and Expungement Clinic, Cabrini-Green Legal Aid (2023–2024)
  • Volunteer, Hibbler Pro Se Help Desk, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2018–2020)
  • Volunteer, Settlement Assistance Program, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2019–present)
  • Volunteer, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, Center for Economic Progress (2018)
  • Volunteer, EEOC Mediation Program and U-Visa Program, Legal Assistance Foundation (2008–2009)