Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, a national personal injury firm primarily based in Chicago, announces that Maura D. White joins the firm as a Senior Attorney. Maura will be a member of the firm’s highly respected civil rights team on police misconduct cases, sexual abuse cases and others, working closely with Founding Partner Antonio M. Romanucci.
Maura brings over 18 years of legal experience to the firm, including almost 10 years with the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division as Acting Deputy Chief and Senior Sex Crimes Counsel in Washington, D.C. Prior to that role she was an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office. She has experience directing litigation strategy and complex investigations into criminal civil rights violations and sexual misconduct – including prosecution of cases of sexual misconduct committed by government actors.
While at the Department of Justice, Maura secured convictions on behalf of numerous victims of criminal civil rights violations across the country, including:
- United States v. Davidson, where former Dallas County, Alabama Sheriff's Deputy Joshua Davidson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman while on duty;
- United States v. Robert Lashley, et al, where brothers Robert and Roy Lashley were sentenced to 36- and 60-months’ imprisonment, respectively, for their roles in the racially motivated beating of a Black man in Citrus Springs, Florida, in January 2023; and
- United States v. Eric Kindley, where in October 2021, following a jury trial in the Eastern District of Arkansas, the defendant was sentenced to life for sexually assaulting women whom he transported as a private prisoner transport officer. This case was one of the Department of Justice's most far-reaching sexual assault investigations involving sexual misconduct committed by a government actor to date.
She earned her law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in English and Sociology.
She is admitted to practice in Illinois and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
“Maura brings extremely valuable experience and context to our civil rights and sexual abuse practice areas, and we believe her addition will be meaningful to our clients and our pursuit of justice for them,” said Founding Partner Antonio M. Romanucci.”
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