Office

120 South Riverside Plaza
Suite 1200
Chicago, IL 60606
P 312.876.7814
F 312.876.0288
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Practice

Antitrust & Trade Regulation »
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Consumer Finance »
Environmental »

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Publications

APR Split Class Actions PDF

Assignee Liability: Through the Minefield PDF

Dealer Rate Participation Class Actions under the ECOA PDF

Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 2003 PDF

The Credit Repair Organizations Act PDF

Usury Revisited PDF

Usury Strikes Back: Recent Developments PDF

John L. Ropiequet
Partner

Mr. Ropiequet is a partner in the law firm of Arnstein & Lehr, where he has practiced for more than 30 years. He has a civil litigation practice at both the trial and the appellate levels, including a substantial amount of experience handling alternate dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. His practice is nationwide in scope. With trial experience that runs the gamut from medical malpractice cases to will contests, he currently devotes a significant amount of his time to consumer credit class actions and commercial disputes. Mr. Ropiequet also has substantial experience in other complex litigation, including antitrust, toxic tort, securities fraud, real estate and Superfund litigation.

Professional Activities and Achievements

He is Pro Bono Liaison for the American Bar Association Business Law Section Consumer Financial Services Committee and is former Chair of the CBA's Committee on Medical-Legal Relations and its Committee on Hospital and Healthcare Law, and of the American Bar Association Litigation Section Committee on Corporate Counsel, Subcommittee on Budgeting for Litigation. He is a member of the Governing Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law. He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and Defense Research Institute. He is Secretary of United Way of the North Shore and President of its Highland Park-Highwood Chapter, and is former President of Family Counseling Service of Evanston and Skokie Valley, former National Co-Chair of the Law School Fund at Northwestern University, and a former member of the Board of Advisors to the National Alumni Schools Committee of Johns Hopkins University.

Recent Publications

Mr. Ropiequet has spoken and written frequently on issues involving consumer finance, evidentiary privilege, medical malpractice, hospital law, environmental law and legal ethics. Most recently, he has lectured on assignee liability and collateral protection insurance to the Conference on Consumer Finance Law and the Practicing Law Institute. His many articles include "Assignee Liability Under the TILA" and "Secured Party Liability for the Acts of Repossessors," which appeared in Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, and "Environmental Law Litigation Under CERCLA," which appeared in Am. Jur. Trials. He is co-author of the Illinois Practice Guide: Personal Injury.

Education

Northwestern University School of Law (J.D. cum laude, 1972)
Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1969)

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois; U.S. District Courts, Central and Northern Districts of Illinois; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin; U.S. Claims Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court