Melanie Ann Strubbe received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 1992 and graduated, cum laude, from the University of Houston Law Center in 1995.  Ms. Strubbe is licensed in California, Nevada and Illinois.  She devoted the first five years of her practice to construction defect litigation in Southern California, where she defended a wide variety of clients, including general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.  Her cases focused on structural issues, geotechnical issues, concrete and mold, and she was a member of the American Concrete Institute.  Ms. Strubbe was involved in the defense of claims involving sulfate attack on concrete, where she participated in destructive testing including the taking of numerous concrete cores, and the analysis of these cores including their PSI, compressive and tensile strength, and the use of SEM (scanning electron microscopy).  She has worked with numerous structural, civil and geotechnical engineering experts, including the internationally known Adam Neville from England, who wrote Properties of Concrete, a book used nationwide to teach engineering students.  She has also deposed several world-renowned experts in the field of engineering and concrete.  Since moving to Illinois in 1999, Ms. Strubbe has continued litigating construction matters, including construction injury and construction defect suits, and currently devotes approximately 25% of her practice to insurance coverage matters, including prosecuting and defending declaratory judgment actions as well as providing coverage opinions to various insurance companies.    Ms. Strubbe has also handled numerous other civil matters, including personal injury and products liability cases.  Ms. Strubbe is an active member of the Illinois Defense Counsel's Insurance Coverage Committee, and was selected as an Illinois Leading Lawyer Rising Star for the years 2007 and 2008.  Ms. Strubbe can be contacted at MStrubbe@LCLLaw.com .

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Areas of Practice:

Construction Defect Litigation
Construction Injury
Insurance Coverage
Products Liability Law
Personal Injury

Admitted:

State Bar of Illinois-1997
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois-1997
State Bar of Nevada-1996
State Bar of California-1995

Affiliations:

Illinois State Bar
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel
Defense Research Institute
California State Bar (inactive)
Nevada State Bar (inactive))