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Elizabeth A. Wurm
Associate
Overview
Across sectors that include manufacturing, health, and technology, Elizabeth Wurm represents clients in product liability litigation, commercial cost recovery actions, and other commercial disputes. She embraces big-picture thinking, with a constant eye toward how an individual case strategy fits into a client's broader litigation profile and business strategy.
Focusing on protecting manufacturers of consumer products, automotive parts, and medical devices, Elizabeth is a trial attorney skilled in persuasive writing and oral argument, combining methodical reasoning with creative legal arguments to help secure favorable outcomes. She very often obtains dismissals for clients on motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, and motions to exclude expert opinions.
Product Liability & Mass Torts Litigation
Elizabeth represents large automotive suppliers and medical device manufacturers as national counsel, defending catastrophic personal injury and wrongful-death product liability disputes. For automotive, mechanical products, and medical device clients, she manages the entire life cycle of a case up to trial, including fact development, expert discovery, and motion practice, often on condensed timelines in high-stakes litigation.
A focus of Elizabeth's practice is working closely with many renowned engineering and medical experts to build strong expert cases for clients, to develop case theories and technical defenses, and then to pick apart the opposing sides' expert witnesses.
Commercial Litigation
She represents manufacturing and technology clients in contract disputes and complex contribution and indemnity claims at all levels of supply chains.
Elizabeth is often called upon to untangle the thorniest of legal issues, and she meets each complexity with a critical eye, attention to detail, and thoughtful analysis to provide clients with counsel and strategy.
Personal Interests
Elizabeth enjoys the Boundary Waters, Big 10 college sports, and any type of board game. After spending a decade in Chicago, she and her husband now live in Minneapolis with their two daughters.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Illinois
Minnesota
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Languages
Spanish
Education
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
J.D. cum laude, Northwestern University Law Review (notes editor) (2019)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
B.A. in Global Studies, Political Science, and Spanish Studies, summa cum laude, with high distinction (2015)
Insights & Events
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- Legal Aid Chicago — Ambassadors Board Member
- Legal Aid Chicago Expungement Clinic
- ACLU of Illinois
Professional Associations
- Chicago Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
Civic Activities
- Chicago Bar Association's Moot Court Competition — Moot Court Judge, 2020
- Katten Legal Clinic at Jose de Diego Community Academy — Assisted with client interviews, referrals, post-clinic summary reports, and served as a translator for Spanish-speaking clients, 2016-18
Honors
- Faegre Drinker — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2021-23, 2025
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law — Dean’s List
- University of Minnesota — Phi Beta Kappa
- University of Minnesota — National Merit Scholar