
Melanie J. VanOverloop
Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop, PCChicago, IL
Illinois PI lawSOL: 5 yearsDV: recoverableRead Illinois’s rulesAbout Melanie
Melanie VanOverloop is a Partner at Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop P.C., who has spent her entire career prosecuting personal injury cases including medical malpractice, construction negligence, product liability, and trucking liability cases. Melanie has extensive courtroom experience and has tried numerous cases to verdict, with successes in counties all across Illinois. She is actively involved in the legal community, serving on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Board of Managers and as co-chair of the ITLA Women’s Caucus, and as a Director of the Women’s Bar Association of...
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Education
J.D.
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
B.A.
Purdue University
Awards & Recognition
Leading Lawyers Emerging Lawyer
2019
Top 50 Illinois Verdict
2019
Rising Star, Illinois Super Lawyers
Rising Star · 2018
Illinois Super Lawyer
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