Oswald, Hannah

Hannah Oswald

Associate
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Hannah Oswald focuses her practice on complex litigation and arbitration, including matters involving breach of contract, loss-sensitive insurance programs and reinsurance treaty disputes. Her experience includes research, discovery management, depositions, drafting dispositive and non-dispositive motions, drafting amicus briefs, hearings, pre-trial, trial, post-trial and appeals.

She is also a member of the Firm's Privacy & Cyber Litigation and Enforcement Team where she assists in developing theories and bases advanced in class actions, private litigation, and enforcement actions by federal and state agencies related to the collection, use, sharing, and protection of data.

Hannah Oswald focuses her practice on complex litigation and arbitration, including matters involving breach of contract, loss-sensitive insurance programs and reinsurance treaty disputes. Her experience includes research, discovery management, depositions, drafting dispositive and non-dispositive motions, drafting amicus briefs, hearings, pre-trial, trial, post-trial and appeals.

She is also a member of the Firm's Privacy & Cyber Litigation and Enforcement Team where she assists in developing theories and bases advanced in class actions, private litigation, and enforcement actions by federal and state agencies related to the collection, use, sharing, and protection of data.

Hannah’s experience includes:

  • Regularly represents reinsurance companies in disputes regarding reinsurance treaty issues
  • Lead Associate in several complex arbitrations involving $100 million disputes for reinsurer over long-term care insurance policies
  • Represented a national service organization at trial concerning disputes related to breach of contract and fraud
  • Assisted in obtaining $3.6 million arbitration award for national insurance company related to workers compensation policy disputes
  • Assisted in obtaining summary judgment in favor of trade association dismissing claims related to defamation and commercial disparagement
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CREDENTIALS
Education
  • J.D., magna cum laude, University of Notre Dame Law School, 2019
    Managing Senior Editor, Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
  • B.S., Economics and Philosophy, University of Illinois, 2015
Bar Admissions
  • Illinois
Court Admissions
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Awards & Recognitions
    • Named, Super Lawyers® Illinois Rising Star, Consumer Law (2024)
    • Best Oralist Award, William & Mary Spong Tournament (2019)
    • First Place, John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition (2018)
    • First Place, Notre Dame 1L Moot Court Board Tournament (2017)