Elaine M. Stoll focuses her litigation defense practice on critical motions and briefs in high-exposure cases nationwide, during all phases of litigation, and on the deep-dive legal research and analysis driving case evaluation, litigation strategy, and motions. She has won “million-dollar motions,” achieving judgment as a matter of law for clients on high-risk claims (e.g. punitive damages, negligent hiring, strict liability for ultra-hazardous activity); excluded key plaintiffs’ evidence from trial via Daubert and Frye motions and motions in limine; and successfully defended defense judgments through appeal. Ms. Stoll is regularly enlisted to analyze and brief questions of first impression or unsettled law; to challenge and defend admissibility of expert opinions and scientific or technical evidence; and to translate nuanced legal arguments and difficult but important medical, engineering, scientific, and technical concepts into lay terms. She has authored motions and briefs filed in eighteen states.
Ms. Stoll’s current case load is concentrated in mass tort matters. She has significant experience defending catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims against motor carriers and commercial drivers, product liability claims against truck and bus manufacturers, and brain injury claims.
Ms. Stoll has written numerous articles, publications, and legal papers on civil litigation topics and serves as Seventh Circuit reporter for Daubert Online, the digital publication of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar. During law school, Ms. Stoll served as an editor for the University of Cincinnati Law Review and the Human Rights Quarterly. Prior to law school, she was a staff writer for a daily newspaper.
