Timothy J. Rooney
Partner
Tim represents major corporate clients in their most high-profile and high-risk complex litigation matters, including civil and criminal litigation, large class actions, and significant investigations.
Key Matters
Tim has represented clients such as The Travelers Co., Aon Corporation, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Medline Industries, Harris Bank, the City of Chicago, PMC, Inc., and numerous other large corporate clients in major civil litigation, class actions, and investigations.
Tim's select experience includes the following:
- Served as trial counsel for Illinois Supreme Court Justice James D. Heiple in a historic impeachment hearing and trial before the Illinois legislature—the first such trial in over 132 years.
- Represented former Illinois Gov. George Ryan at his media-intense, six month criminal trial
- Represented the then-House Ways & Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski in his criminal proceedings
- Represented Bell Atlantic in major Justice Department proceedings relating to its mergers with fellow telecom giants GTE and NYNEX, both of which were among the largest mergers in American history at the time.
- Led the representation of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., the marine construction company, in all aspects of the vast litigation arising out of the infamous Great Chicago Flood of 1992.
Tim has also handled other high-profile matters such as the 1993 Chicago Public School litigation and the 1992 Illinois Redistricting litigation on behalf of the victorious Senate Republicans. In addition, among the many matters he has handled for Aon Corporation over the years was the significant shareholder litigation brought following the September 11 tragedy.