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About Jay
The recipient of a BA in political science from Michigan State University and JD from DePaul University College of Law, Jay Paul Deratany gained admission to the Illinois Bar in 1987. By 1993, Jay Paul Deratany was licensed to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of both Illinois and Florida.
A member of the Chicago Bar Association, he has served as a partner and lead trial attorney at The Deratany Firm since 1993. Considered one of the United States’ top trial firms, it focuses primarily on medical malpractice as well as adoption and foster care negligence. Mr. Deratany’s accomplishments with the firm include winning a $20 million settlement against a foster care agency for its placement of a child in the home of an abuser and an $8.7 million verdict against a Pennsylvania-based foster care division. Over the course of his career, he has won his clients a combined total of over $100 million.
Recognized as a Leading Lawyer of Chicago since 2012, Mr. Deratany has also received the Million Dollar Advocates Award, ATLA Leaders Forum Award, and the Ekroth Award for providing exceptional legal services in the representation of individuals with disabilities. In addition to his legal career, he is a passionate writer and producer who earned his MA in screenwriting from the University of California, Riverside.
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Foster Boy (
2018 )
Film (Drama) Producer Michael Trainer is a lawyer at the center of a trial in which a for-profit Foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, with catastrophic results. Michael, a successful litigator with a long career in protecting corporate clients, has been blinded from recognizing the real damage they can cause. He wants nothing to do with Jamal's case until a Judge forces him to accept it. Initially he sees Jamal, as a thuggish African American youth trying to get a piece of corporate profits. But when Jamal refuses to settle the case for any amount of money, Michael begins his representation in earnest. As their work together reveals the horrifying depth of the corrupt and abusive for-profit Foster care agency, Michael is transformed from reluctant defender to fierce warrior in the battle for justice. -
Saugatuck Cures (
2015 )
Film (Comedy) Producer Drew and his best friend Brett set out on a road trip to pose as ex-gay ministers using exuberant high jinks to scam churchgoers, all in order to raise money for his mother's experimental cancer treatment. -
Out (
2014 )
Film (Short, Comedy and Drama) Producer Raymond Bilotti, a down on his luck 'every man', in less than twenty minutes faces the prospect of losing his home, his mother and his most closely held secret, (not necessarily in that order). -
The Apple Tree (
2012 )
Film (Short, Drama and Romance) Producer When Gabe and Jonathan fall in love in the 1940s, they decide to spend their life together in secret. But when Jonathan unexpectedly passes away years later, Gabe is faced with the fact that many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender elders face when they move into retirement homes...he must return into the closet. Written by Anonymous -
American Legacy (
2008 )
Film (Comedy and Drama) Actor "American Legacy" takes a dark comedic look at one family's dynamic over a four-day period. What happens when "Appliance king of Chicago" Don Harris has only 76 hours to save his family business? As he begins to plan his traditionally elaborate, flag-waving sale, he is emotionally sideswiped by personal tragedy. With his estranged family members gathering around him, Don is forced to make some of the most important decisions of his life. Written by Jay Sukow
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University of California - Riverside
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Michigan State University
(2010-2012)
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