Background
Marc Chemers, Robert was born on July 24, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Robert Marc Chemers
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University of Southern California (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1973). Indiana University School of Law (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1976).
Career
Worked at Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Insurance and Re-Insurance Coverage, Declaratory Judgment, Professional Liability, Appellate and Commercial Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1976, Indiana, Illinois and United States. District Court, Southern District of Indiana.
1977, United States.
United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and United States. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar.
1981, United States. District Court, Southern District of Illinois.
1985, United States. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. 1991, United States. District Court, Central District of Illinois.
1992, United States. Supreme Court. Phi Eta Sigma.
Phi Alpha Delta. Member, Blackstonian.
Member, Indiana Law Review, 1974-1976. Member, Marquis Who"s Who In American Law, 5th Edition, 1987-1988. 6th Edition, 1988-1989.
7th Edition, 1989-1990.
Member, Outstanding Young Men of America, 1987. Author: "Strict Liability and Cosmetics Manufacturers," Federation of Insurance Counsel Quarterly, Winter 1977.
Company-Author: "Pre-Trial Practice," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Civil Practice Before Trial, 1978. "Pre-Trial Practice," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Civil Practice Before Trial, 1982.
"Pre-Trial Practice, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Civil Practice, 1989.
"Trial By Jury and the Right to lieutenant," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Civil Practice, 1979. "Trial By Jury and the Right to lieutenant," Illinois Civil Practice, 1986. "Trial By Jury and the Right to lieutenant," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Civil Practice, 1989.
Author: "Insurance Law Update," Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, 19th Annual Defense Tactics Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, March 12, 1983.
"Coverage Disputes and the Duty to Defend," The Resolution of Coverage Disputes, Defense Research Institute, Defense Practice Seminar, Boston, Massachusetts, April 15-16, 1982. "Jurisdiction and Forum Non Conveniens," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Lecturer, Pre-Trial Motion Practice Workshop, May 18, 1984.
Author: "Concluding the Settlement," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Negotiating Personal Injury Settlements, October 12, 1987. "Preparing Settlement Papers and Avoiding Undoing the Settlement," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Negotiating Personal Injury Settlements, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, October 12, 1987.
"What is an Occurrence? Recent Developments Under the CGL," Insurance Coverage, Practice and Risk Management, Defense Research Institute, Defense Practice Seminar, May 6-8, 1987, Chicago, Illinois.
"Insurer Retained Defense Counsel and Conflict of Interests," Chicago Bar Association Insurance Law Committee Seminar, April 2, 1987. "Insurance Law Update," Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, Ninth Annual Fall Seminar, September, 1988. "State and Federal Practice--A Procedural and Substantive Overview," Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, Tenth Annual Fall Seminar, September, 1989.
"Preparing Settlement Papers and Avoiding Undoing the Settlement," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Negotiating Personal Injury Settlements, January, 1989, Lecturer in Chicago and Springfield.
Company-Author: "The School of Medicine Doctrine in Illinois," The Brief, of the DuPage County Bar Association, December, 1989. "Is There a Duty to Defend?" The Brief, Fall, 1990.
"The Preemption of State Claims Under Employee Retirement Income Security Act," Illinois Bar Journal, November, 1990. "The Contemporary View of the Pollution Exclusion - A Provincial Approach," Insurance Coverage and Practice Monograph, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Volume 1990, Number.
4, pp. 97-106; "Superfund Defense - Extra Steps Necessary With Environmental Claims," January 1991, pp.
54-58. "The Lost Chance Doctrine Could Bring Recovery Foreign The Increased Risk of Harm," Chicago Bar Association Record, 27 (April/May 1991). "The Insurance Coverage Aspects of Environmental Claims (Mid-American Press 1991).
"Insurance Coverage Foreign Sexual Assaults Upon Minors," International Data Corporation Quarterly at 8 (Volume 1, 1991).
"Environmental Litigation, Environmental Law for Transactional Attorneys," Church 7 (Illinois. Institute. for Continuing legal education, 1991). "Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims," Environmental Law for Transactional Attorneys, Church
8 (Illinois.
Institute. for Continuing legal education, 1991). Trial Participant - Trial Attorney, Mock Trial, Excess Surplus Lincolnshire & Reinsurance Committee of Tort and Insurance Practice Section of American Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1990. Panelist, Trial Techniques, Expert Witnesses, National Institute and American Bar Association, Orlando, Florida, March 8, 1991.
Trial Techniques, Expert Witnesses, National Institute and American Bar Association, Coronado, California, May 17, 1991.
Member: Chicago, DuPage County, Seventh Circuit, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Defense Research Institute.
Appellate Lawyers Association. Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel.
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Membership
Member, Blackstonian. Member, Indiana Law Review, 1974-1976. Member, Marquis Who"s Who In American Law, 5th Edition, 1987-1988.
6th Edition, 1988-1989.
7th Edition, 1989-1990. Member, Outstanding Young Men of America, 1987.
