Julia L. Koechley is a Partner in the Chicago office of GRSM. With a practice focusing on commercial, healthcare, and product and general liability litigation, she regularly defends businesses and professionals in a broad range of complex matters, including those involving contract and shareholder disputes, fiduciary duty and fraud claims, other business-related torts, and class actions. As a seasoned litigator, she has significant experience representing clients in all stages of litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as in alternative dispute resolution.
- Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Plaintiff’s Fishy Basis for General Jurisdiction, Mandating that Out-of-State Corporations Be “Essentially at Home” Pursuant to Daimler, Environmental Toxic Tort Defense Insight, 2017
- The Activist Shareholders’ Migration to Europe: How The United States Can Retain Its Wandering Investors, DePaul Law Review, 66 DePaul L. Rev. 605, 2017
Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Community Involvement
- Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, Guardian ad Litem, June 2021 – December 2023
- Equip for Equality, Pro Bono Volunteer, April 2018 – September 2020
Education
- J.D., summa cum laude, DePaul University College of Law, May 2017
- Order of the Coif
- Editor of Articles, Notes, and Comments, DePaul Law Review
- CALI Award Recipient: Business Organizations; Remedies; Legal Analysis Research and Communications III; Criminal Procedure; and Litigation Strategy: Pre-Trial Civil
- Dean’s List: Fall 2014-Spring 2017
- B.A., with honors, English and Philosophy, University of Missouri, May 2014
- Creative Nonfiction Honors Program
- Minors in Sociology and Spanish
- Certificate in Multicultural Studies
- Dean’s List: Fall 2010-Spring 2014
Honors
- Super Lawyers® Rising Stars distinction (2023-2024)