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Sam Harton, a senior attorney at Romanucci & Blandin, works primarily on civil rights cases and has a couple of suits that are not done with depositions but are heading to mediation.

“That is very unusual for these kinds of cases,” she said. “It really just depends on their likelihood to get past summary (judgment). I think that in these cases, the defense is thinking more about, am I going to win on summary judgment rather than thinking about trial.”

Learn more about the mediation process for personal injury cases from Managing Editor John McNally in Chicago Lawyer.