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Vanessa G. Jacobsen Print

Vanessa G. Jacobsen is a partner at Eimer Stahl LLP.  She has experience in a wide variety of commercial litigation matters before state and federal courts, including contract, fraud and business tort cases, antitrust lawsuits and counseling, class action defense and corporate criminal matters. Representative matters include the following:

  • Representing Land O’Lakes, Inc. in a variety of litigation in state and federal courts.
  • Defending CITGO Petroleum Corporation in numerous matters, including dozens of putative class actions relating to the sale of temperature adjusted fuel at the retail level.
  • Representing UOP LLC, which provides cutting-edge technology to the petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries, in contract and tort disputes in various jurisdictions.
  • Representing Hollinger Inc., a Canadian mutual fund holding company, in a complex corporate fraud lawsuit and related securities class actions, SEC litigation and federal criminal investigation.
  • Prosecuting and defending on behalf of Praxair Inc., a global, Fortune 300 supplier of atmospheric, process and specialty gases, in several antitrust, business tort and contract disputes.

Before joining Eimer Stahl at its founding, Vanessa practiced law at Sidley & Austin in Chicago.  In 1997, Vanessa graduated with honors and Order of the Coif from DePaul University College of Law, where she served as an editor of the DePaul Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Valparaiso University in 1994. 

Vanessa recently was appointed by the Supreme Court of Illinois to serve on the Special Supreme Court Committee on E-Business.  Vanessa also currently serves on the Seventh Circuit’s Electronic Discovery Committee and the American Bar Association’s Advisory Panel.  She also is a member of the Antitrust and Litigation sections of the American Bar Association.