Brian T. Henry

Brian Henry joined Pretzel & Stouffer upon his graduation from law school in May of 1980. During his entire legal career, he has been a trial attorney specializing in civil litigation. While the vast majority of the lawsuits he has defended have been on behalf of hospitals or medical professionals, he has represented defendants in many types of civil lawsuits including legal malpractice actions and product liability lawsuits. In the last 12 years, Mr. Henry has over his career has represented defendants in excess of 150 jury trials. He has defended at trial pediatricians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, obstetricians, gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists, emergency medicine physicians, pain medicine physicians, cardiologists, internists, urologists, radiologists, pathologists, plastic surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, family practice physicians, pulmonologists, critical care physicians, psychiatrists, oncologists, cardiovascular surgeons, transplant surgeons, vascular surgeons, opthamologists, oral surgeons, resident physicians and nurses. He has had jury trials in state courts in Cook, McHenry, Lake, Kane, Will, DuPage, Grundy and DeKalb counties.

Mr. Henry has received several academic and professional honors. During his undergraduate studies, he received multiple awards including the Paul S. Lietz Gold Key as the top student majoring in history, the Honors Program Gold Key, the Magna Cum Laude Silver Key, the History Department Silver Key and the Mellon Foundation Award for writing. Mr. Henry was chosen to be the first President of the Loyola chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, a national honor society in the field of history. At the University of Illinois College of Law, he won the Rickert Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and was selected as the Editor-in-Chief of the Recent Decisions Section of Illinois Bar Journal.

Mr. Henry has for many years been involved in teaching trial techniques to other attorneys. He has been a faculty instructor on 24 occasions at the trial academies sponsored by the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel. He was also a member of the faculty of the 2001 Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel which is considered to be the premier trial academy in the United States.

In October of 2002, Mr. Henry was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America which seeks to identify those trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of professionalism. From 2003 until 2009 Mr. Henry served as a member of the ACTL Upstate Committee.