A seasoned litigator with an array of experience, Ava L. Caffarini focuses her practice on insurance coverage, professional negligence, and business litigation. Licensed in Indiana and Illinois, Ms. Caffarini is experienced in defending businesses, attorneys, and other professionals in municipal, state, and federal court. In business litigation matters, she has represented businesses large and small in contract disputes, business torts, and products liability cases. She has also handled civil rights lawsuits and insurance coverage issues for clients in Illinois and Indiana. Ms. Caffarini uses her diverse legal background to help accomplish her clients’ business goals and objectives.
Ms. Caffarini earned a J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago Law School in 2013, where she received Dean’s List honors and served as a staff editor on the Review of Intellectual Property Law. She also earned a CALI award for Trademarks and Copyrights, was a teaching assistant for Lawyering Skills II, and worked as a law clerk in the intellectual property group at a mid-sized law firm in Chicago. She holds a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ms. Caffarini is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. She is a director of the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association and serves as a YLS Journal/Blog Liaison. She is also a member of the ISBA Tort Law Section Council and the ISBA Professional Conduct Committee.
"Yelp! Alerts and Defamation Claims" CBA At The Bar (November 4, 2020)
"Preserving Relevant Evidence" CBA At The Bar (October 26, 2020)
"Directed To or Encompassing a Human Organism: How Section 33 of the America Invents Act May Threaten the Future of Biotechnology", The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 768 Vol. 12 Issue. 4 (2013)