Jamie A. Robinson

Jamie is a partner in the Litigation, Intellectual Property and Land Use and Zoning departments who focuses her practice on land use and intellectual property litigation. She has handled matters in both state and federal court, as well as at the appellate level, including copyright, trademark, patent infringement, eminent domain, zoning issues, food products liability, contract disputes and business torts. Jamie has also handled arbitrations and mediations.

Her recent experience includes:

• Representing a wind farm developer in several related cases against objecting property owners challenging the issuance of a special use permit to construct the wind farm.
• Obtaining summary judgment on behalf of an Illinois Village to take, by eminent domain, restrictive covenants being used to prevent the development of senior citizen housing.
• Representing a frozen seafood importer in a TRO proceeding against a competitor for trade dress and trademark infringement.
• Representing a transportation company against a competitor for trademark infringement.
• Representing a furniture company in a TRO proceeding against a competitor for violations of the Illinois Trade Secrets Act.
• Representing a faith-based continuing care retirement community at a hearing before the Illinois Department of Revenue regarding the community’s property tax exemption.
• Successfully representing a home for the developmentally disabled against the City of Markham for housing discrimination in a TRO proceeding and obtaining one of the largest settlements for a housing discrimination suit in Illinois history.
• Obtaining summary judgment for a Fortune 100 food company in a right to publicity case related to the company’s advertisements.
• Defending a food company in a product liability case related to an allegedly contaminated food product.
• Obtaining summary judgment in favor of an Illinois Medical Center against a defamation claim and successfully representing the Center on appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District.

Her trial and appellate experience includes:

• Successfully representing a developer against the City of Moline in a challenge to the city’s denial of the developer’s zoning request to construct a concrete recycling plant.
• Successfully defending a northeast Illinois county at trial regarding the constitutionality of its zoning ordinance and successfully representing the county on appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District.
• Successfully representing an Illinois municipality at trial regarding the enforceability of its zoning code, and successfully representing the municipality on appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District.
• Successfully defending the City of Marshall, Illinois at trial regarding the constitutionality of its adult use ordinance; and successfully representing the City on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
• Successfully defending an action for breach of contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in a partnership dispute before a 3-member FINRA arbitration panel.
• Obtaining a favorable judgment for defendants at trial for a breach of contract claim.
• Defending an owner of a privately managed hunting preserve against the U.S. Government in an eminent domain case, resulting in a property valuation over seven times the Government’s initial offer.

Jamie has been a speaker at and presented mock trial demonstrations at State and National level long-term health care conferences including WAHSA, AAHSA and CAHSA.