Anthony G. Hopp

Anthony G. Hopp

Partner

T: (312) 201-2537
F: (312) 416-4751
hopp@wildman.com

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Practice Areas:

Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Product Liability
Environmental
Class Action
Toxic Tort

Education:

University of Illinois, J.D. 1988, summa cum laude Order of the Coif, Harno Scholar, Law Review (Topics Editor)

University of Illinois, B.A. English Literature, 1984, summa cum laude, University Honors/Bronze Tablet, Phi Beta Kappa




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Anthony G. Hopp

Tony Hopp is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department and one of the department's practice group leaders. He represents clients in complex commercial, environmental and toxic tort matters. He has tried cases to verdict in Illinois and West Virginia and has argued appeals in Illinois, California, New York, and Nebraska. He has represented clients in environmental and commercial cases in 20 states. Tony has defended toxic tort claims related to coal tar, coal tar pitch, creosote, pentachlorophenol, chromated copper arsenate, trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene, atrazine, lead, benzene, toluene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, vinyl chloride, polyester resins, mineral spirits, and asbestos. Tony has handled all phases of single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and class action claims. Over the course of his career, Tony has tackled a wide variety of litigation and counseling engagements. His litigation experience includes Superfund cases, private cost recovery litigation, consumer class actions, shareholder derivative claims, unfair competition and Lanham Act claims, actions for violation of non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, insurance coverage disputes, dealership termination cases, medical malpractice cases, forcible entry and detainer cases, housing discrimination and zoning litigation. His counseling experience includes risk management and product stewardship issues, product recalls, environmental audits, internal corporate investigations, and local siting of solid waste management facilities.


Representative Experience:

  • After a two-week jury trial, achieved a successful result for a firm client in multiple property damage actions related to alleged TCE groundwater contamination
  • Argued and won a wrongful death case in the Nebraska Supreme Court
  • Successfully defended manufacturers in multiple personal injury and property damage cases alleging exposure to creosote, pentachlorophenol and chromated copper arsenate
  • Defeated class certification for a wood-treating company in a medical monitoring case in West Virginia state court after a two-day class certification hearing; in a subsequent trial on the merits, Tony was a member of the trial team that obtained defense verdicts on the medical monitoring claims of all individual plaintiffs
  • Currently representing a product manufacturer in a Lanham Act and unfair competition lawsuit in Georgia
  • Currently defending a regional agricultural cooperative network in five statewide class actions pending in Madison County, Illinois alleging that atrazine, a widely-used agricultural herbicide, caused property damage
  • Representing a municipality in the appeal of the denial of a request for local siting approval of a municipal solid waste landfill 
  • Successfully defended over 1,000 personal injury, property damage and medical monitoring claims based on alleged lead exposure in Detroit
  • Assisting in the defense of several thousand personal injury and property damage claims alleging exposure to wood preservatives in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas
  • Ongoing representation of manufacturers in personal injury claims related to chromated copper arsenate
  • Ongoing defense of CERCLA private cost-recovery claims
  • Counseling clients on international product safety issues, product recalls, warning issues, TSCA and FIFRA compliance, and drafting Material Safety Data Sheets

Reported Decisions:

  • Farber v. Lok-N-Logs, Inc., 270 Neb. 356, 701 N.W.2d 368 (Neb. 2005)
  • Sirico v. Beckerle Lumber Supply Co., 227 A.D.2d 396, 642 N.Y.S. 55 (N.Y. App. 1996)
  • Louisiana Pacific Co. v. Koppers Co., 32 Cal. App. 4th 599, 38 Cal. Rptr.2d 257 (Cal. App. 1995)
  • Pelzer v. Lockformer, 2005 WL 1651729 (N.D. Ill. 2005)

Pro Bono Activity:

Tony is President of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) where he also represents tenants in eviction cases in state court. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of LCBH since 2006. In 2005, he received the LCBH Volunteer of the Year award.

Tony has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Initiative since 2007. From 1997 to 2001, he served on the Judicial Evaluations Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, and he has been an Advisory Board member for Roosevelt University’s Paralegal Studies Program since 1996.

 


Publications And Presentations:

Bar Admissions:

Illinois Supreme Court, 1988

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar member), 1989

U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, 1991

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 2004

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1997

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1991

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1993


Personal Information:

Tony, his wife Kelly, and their three children live in Naperville, Illinois, where he serves as a lector at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, and is President of the Board of Directors of the Brookdale Racquet Club.


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