Chicago-Based Attorneys
Handling Aviation Accidents Nationwide
Thomas J. Ellis
Practice Areas
- Aviation Accidents
- Product Liability
- Medical Malpractice
- Wrongful Death
- Traumatic Brain Injury
Education
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
- Juris Doctor
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Law Review, Moot Court
- Honors: Academic Recognitions: Irving & June Brott Scholar, Dean’s Scholar and UIC Law Community Legal Clinics Scholarship recipient
- Honors: CALI Award for Advanced Trial Advocacy; Best Petitioner Brief in the Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition
- Concentration: Trial Advocacy & Dispute Resolution
- University of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
- Bachelor of Science
- Honors: High Honors (cumulative of GPA 3.85 or higher; includes undergraduate credit from Tufts University and Northwestern University)
- Major: Management
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 2024
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2024
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Lawyer Pilot Bar Association (Associate Member)
- American Constitution Society
Community Service
- Life Trustee, former Trustee (2005-2020) and former Board Chair (2008-2020), Roycemore School, Evanston, IL
- Trustee and Vice-President (2024-25), Thomas Jefferson School, Sunset Hills, MO
- UIC Law Pro Bono Litigation Clinic (as Rule 711 student attorney), including two appeals to the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, and an executive clemency hearing before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board representing a prisoner originally sentenced to death
Publications and Presentations
- Thomas J. Ellis, The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Alien Tort Statute, 57 UIC L. REV. 863 (2024)
- “From Near Death Experience to Vitality: Seven Steps to School Turnaround Success,” Adrianne Finley Odell and Thomas J. Ellis, National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, February 2024.