T.J. Rainville
tom@starrattorneys.com
As an attorney, Tom draws his strength from a diverse legal background which includes extensive civil and criminal work, as well as jury trial experience on cases ranging from medical malpractice and wrongful death to felony criminal cases. Additionally, he has conducted more than 100 arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
Before joining Starr & Associates, P.C., Tom worked with Steven B. Muslin Ltd. In Chicago, IL as a litigation attorney, and more recently (since 2000) as a sole practitioner in Littleton, Colorado, were he aided clients with Civil and Criminal matters.
While in Littleton, Tom also served as outside council to Eurasian Minerals Inc., an international, publicly traded natural resources company. As a legal consultant, he assisted Eurasian Minerals Inc. with a variety of matters including negotiating contracts, and drafting joint venture contracts, confidentiality agreements, purchase agreements, and service agreements between U.S. and Canada based major international natural resource companies.
Tom has negotiated and litigated catastrophic injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases at both State and Federal levels on behalf of injured individuals and the estates of deceased individuals. Several of these cases were settled in excess of one million dollars.
Tom has tried numerous jury trials, including: four medical malpractice cases (one lasting one month in duration), two wrongful death cases and a product liability action. Litigated criminal cases in six different states. He has given oral argument before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and authored numerous briefs in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and in the Appellate Court for the State of Illinois. Tom is admitted to practice before the following United States District Courts: District of Colorado; Northern, Southern, Central and Western Districts of Illinois. He is also admitted in the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Tom is a member of both the Colorado and Illinois State Bars (presently inactive in IL).
Areas of Practice
Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Family Law, Workers Compensation
Law Education
John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois; 1990 St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, New York BA, 1987; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England 1986.