Timothy J. Harris is a litigation attorney with over thirty years of experience. He represents clients in civil matters throughout sixteen counties of northern and central Illinois. His clients include utility companies, major insurance companies, municipalities, transportation companies, construction companies, manufacturers, and service providers. His career emphasis is in litigation defense, where he has tried cases in the areas of fires and explosions, transportation liability, premises liability, construction liability, and medical malpractice liability. For the past eighteen years, Tim has practiced extensively within the natural gas industry.

Tim graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A. 1984) and DePaul University College of Law (J.D. 1988). He started his legal career at Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtd. where he focused on general insurance defense litigation. Later, Tim expanded his practice to include medical malpractice, transportation liability and construction liability defense in his work at Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey. He then worked for ten years as a senior litigation attorney for St. Paul/Travelers Insurance Companies where he litigated large loss catastrophic injury claims. In 2003, he opened the Law Offices of Timothy J. Harris and Associates. He became a partner in Donnelly, Lipinski and Harris in 2008.

Contact Information

tharris@donnellyharris.com
708-478-1168 (direct)

Downtown Office

53 W. Jackson, STE 818
Chicago, IL 60604

Southwest Office

19250 Everett Lane, Suite 104
Mokena, IL 60448

Published Works 

"Fees for Physician Testimony: What's Reasonable?" Illinois Bar Journal, Sept. 2008.
"Intrastate Forum Shopping," IDC Quarterly, Third Quarter 2003.
"The De Minimus Rule for Premises-Liability Cases," Illinois Bar Journal, Sept. 2001.
"Admissibility of Evidence of Prior Injury Under the 'Same Part of the Body' Rule," IDC Quarterly, Fourth Quarter 1999.
"The ATM Owner's Responsibility for Third Party Criminal Attacks," IDC Quarterly, Fourth Quarter 1993.

Bar Admissions

Illinois Bar Association
Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel
Chicago Bar Association
Southwest Bar