Josh Engquist - Chicago, IL

Overview

Education

• Legal Education

  • Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1992
    B.A.
    Major: Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Representative Cases

• Rodriguez v. City of Chicago, et al,: Federal jury trial in front of Judge Kennelly alleging wrongful conviction stemming from the plaintiff’s vacated 1998 murder conviction. Plaintiff claimed that defendants withheld exculpatory evidence (Brady violation) by pressuring an eyewitness during a photo line-up and an in-person line-up. Plaintiff demanded $14,200,000 at trial and the jury returned a verdict for the defendants.
• Scirocco Giles v. City of Chicago, et al.,: Federal jury trial in front of Judge Coleman alleging excessive force
  • Citation: battery, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and a Monell claim for failing to properly investigate police-involved shooting cases. The case stemmed from the shooting of plaintiff while he fled officers after a traffic stop. Plaintiff was armed with a handgun and shot in the back, severing his spine and causing paralysis below the waist. Plaintiff claimed he never turned toward the officer behind to him to justify being shot, however, the physical evidence (the bullet path) supported the officer’s version of events. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants.
• Nikita Bailey v. City of Chicago, et. al.,: State court jury trial in front of Judge James Flannery, Jr. arising out of a May 3, 2006 traffic stop in which decedent attempted to flee in his vehicle and during that process dragged the defendant officer. Plaintiff—as administrator of the estate of the decedent—brought intentional battery claims under the wrongful death and survival acts, and a spoliation claim. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants.
• Common / Smith v. City of Chicago, et al.,: Federal jury trial in front of Judge Kennelly. Plaintiff alleged unreasonable use of deadly force and supplemental state law wrongful death and survival claims against Chicago Police Officers and the City of Chicago stemming from a 2006 police shooting in which Michael Smith died after being shot in the chest while attempting to disarm a police officer. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1997
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1997
• U.S. Federal Courts

Other Affiliations

• Member of Trial Bar of the Northern District of Illinois

Fraternities and Sororities

• Alpha Sigma Phi