Jesse Placher

Jesse is a blue collar worker in a white collar industry. He graduated high school early and put himself through community college before transferring to the University of Virginia. He came home to Illinois for law school, clerking for a large downstate defense firm during his summers. He spent 15 years working on the defense side, primarily defending hospitals and healthcare workers. He tried a dozen medical malpractice cases for the defense - not one of those cases ended in a verdict for the plaintiff. He became the partner-in-charge of his office in Peoria and the office’s lead partner on...