On September 17, Irina Dmitrieva, Aleen Tiffany, and Stephanie Weiner will speak at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) 2025 Chicago Summit. They will collaborate with Kiran Advani, general counsel for a construction management firm and ACC’s Program Chair, on a four-person panel guiding in-house counsel on how to navigate their daily jobs without inadvertently waiving attorney-client privilege/work-product protections. Discussions will focus on joint venture negotiations and incident investigations. More information about the Summit is available on ACC’s website. HeplerBroom is proud to be one of the event’s sponsors.

All three attorneys are partners in the firm’s Chicago office.

Dmitrieva is a highly experienced appellate litigator with more than 20 years of success in federal and state appellate courts representing both private clients and governmental entities. Before joining HeplerBroom, she served as the sole appellate attorney for the Chicago Transit Authority, one of the largest mass transit companies in the United States. Earlier in her career, she represented the City of Chicago and its agencies in appellate courts. She also practiced complex commercial litigation and appellate law at a large Chicago law firm, where she was mentored by retired Illinois Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Miller.

Tiffany focuses her practice on complex civil litigation and corporate construction matters. An experienced trial attorney, she’s also a Certified Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist through the International Risk Management Institute, a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America, and a member of the Society of Illinois Construction Attorneys. She has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters and an Illinois Leading Lawyer by Law Bulletin Media. Tiffany is a past president of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel.

Weiner defends personal injury cases, primarily municipal and §1983 claims. She also defends construction, premises, and contractual matters, including risk transfer. Her clients look to her for her creative and cost-effective solutions to their legal issues and commend her for her outside-the-box approach to the practice of law. She, too, has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters and an Illinois Leading Lawyer by Law Bulletin Media. Weiner has been a member of IDC’s Construction Law Committee.