Romanucci & Blandin, LLC welcomes Jennifer McGuffin to the firm as Chief Communications Officer

Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, a leading personal injury and civil trial practice law firm in Chicago, today announced it is welcoming Jennifer McGuffin to the team as its Chief Communications Officer.  In this newly created role, she will lead and execute media strategy and further advance the firm’s position as a thought leader in personal injury and national legal trends.  She will also direct internal communication and assume a leadership role in communications with clients, prospective clients and referring attorneys.

McGuffin is a highly respected communications professional with more than 25 years of experience and proven results driving media strategy. Her work includes successful national media campaigns for Romanucci & Blandin as a consultant in 2017, when the firm was lead counsel representing victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando and led other efforts to shut down Backpage.com for advertising victims of sex trafficking, representing the family of a Chicago teen who died.  McGuffin has more than a decade of experience leading global corporate communications teams at Adtalem Global Education (NYSE: ATGE) and Calamos Investments. She also served as Vice President of Culloton + Bauer Luce, an internationally respected crisis communication firm based in Chicago. McGuffin has nearly 20 years of experience as a professional journalist with producing and on-camera reporting roles in Chicago television news and at the network level for NBC’s News Channel division. Additionally, she was editor of a high-end lifestyle magazine and an adjunct professor of journalism at a private college in the Chicago area.  McGuffin earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and business administration from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She is a member of the Chicago chapter of the International Women’s Forum, the Chicago Executives Club and the Chicago Metro Advisory Council for the WINGS Program, which provides shelter and life transition programs for victims of domestic violence. She was recently a board director of the Public Relations Society of America’s Chicago chapter. 

“We are extremely confident Jennifer will bring significant value to the firm, amplify the impactful stories of our clients and showcase the expertise of our talented legal team,” said Antonio M. Romanucci, founding partner of Romanucci & Blandin. “Her success with media strategy in Chicago, nationally and internationally will be accretive to the firm and our unwavering dedication to fight for our clients.”

“The addition of a Chief Communications Officer to the firm is a reflection of the success we have had in the courtroom and the continued growth trajectory of the organization. We are pleased to be expanding our communications group, which includes Director of Marketing & Communications Stefanie Stein,” added Stephan D. Blandin, founding partner of Romanucci & Blandin. “Jennifer will be a key member of our leadership team as we begin our third decade of securing justice for our clients and being drivers of real, meaningful policy change.”

Since its start as a firm more than 20 years ago, Romanucci & Blandin has won more than $500 million in settlements and verdicts for their clients, with dozens of those cases in excess of $1 million, including a record-breaking $44.7 million verdict on behalf of a young man left bound to a wheelchair and with permanent brain damage following a gunshot wound to the head, an unprecedented $38.75 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against the City of Chicago for its red light camera practices and a $30 million settlement on behalf of a brain injured child.

Romanucci & Blandin, LLC headquarters is located at 321 N. Clark St., Suite 900 in Chicago, with an additional office in DuPage County. Members of the media can reach Jennifer at JMcGuffin@rblaw.net or 312-253-8783.