O’Connor Law has extensive experience defending and prosecuting civil rights claims, including the following claims:

  • excessive force
  • deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
  • false arrest
  • unreasonable seizure
  • unlawful search
  • unlawful entry
  • denial of equal protection (sex discrimination, harassment)
  • substantive due process
  • First Amendment retaliation
  • Monell
  • failure to intervene
  • denial of equal protection (“class of one”)

O’Connor Law has defended numerous civil rights claims at all phases of litigation: jury trial, critical motions (summary judgment, dismissal, bifurcation, etc.), pleading, discovery and settlement. O’Connor Law has obtained favorable results in numerous cases. O’Connor Law’s attorneys also have successfully prosecuted a number of plaintiff’s civil rights cases.

O’Connor Law also devotes considerable resources to maintaining a deep fund of knowledge regarding important aspects of civil rights litigation. O’Connor Law periodically offers a free CLE seminar addressing procedural and substantive aspects of the qualified immunity decisions of the Seventh Circuit from January 1, 2014 through the present, as part of which multiple volumes of written materials regarding such decisions are provided. O’Connor Law also routinely publishes articles regarding such topics as qualified immunity (see August 2020 Review Article), a highly significant Monell decision (see 2020 Fall Update) and the Seventh Circuit’s qualified immunity decisions (see September 2010 Review Article).