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Michael Alkaraki is a Partner and Trial Lawyer at Leahy Hoste Alkaraki, where he represents plaintiffs in cases of catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, product lia...
Reena R. Bajowala is a partner in the firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation Practice and a member of the Information Technology Disputes, Class Action and Labor and Employment pr...
Laura is the managing partner of the firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete Chicago office. She has broad experience counseling and advising employers across industries to hel...
Mr. Baron has been working with Louis S. Goldstein and Cindy G. Fluxgold since 1994. For over 20 years, Mr. Baron has represented Plaintiffs in civil litigation, including medi...
Brian Beck focuses on intellectual property and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Zuber Lawler, Mr. Beck practiced at Holland & Knight. Education New York University Sc...
B.S. 1998 Chemical Engineering, Purdue University; J.D. 2006, DePaul University College of Law. Before joining Momkus McCluskey, Steve worked for Cardinal Intellectual Property,...
George Bellas is a principal with the suburban Chicago firm of Bellas & Wachowski. Since ending his tenure as a state prosecutor in 1975, George has been involved in complex c...
Peter Bora has practiced in insurance coverage for 18 years handling liability, toxic tort and environmental coverage litigation and other insurance coverage matters. Peter ear...
Melinda Organ Brennan has been an attorney for more than 30 years. She graduated from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law in 1986. Following graduation, she worked for th...
Joel A. Brodsky practices law from his office in Cook County, Illinois, as well as in all courts throughout the State of Illinois. In the past 28 years Joel has been a partner i...
Jerry Brown is an associate at Foley & Lardner LLP. His experience includes representing investor-owned gas and electric utilities before the ICC in connection with rate cases, ...
Kevin P. Camden is the owner of Camden Law Office, LLC. Camden Law Office was re-established in March 2015 after Kevin returned to the firm from his position as General Counsel ...
Carolyn Welch Clifford has devoted her legal career to the representation of local governments in Illinois with a special emphasis on legal issues involving the fire service. In...
Mr. Cohen graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor of Science and Commerce degree, awarded with honor, in 1978. Mr. Cohen has been a member of the National Honors Accoun...
Linda Condon-Slabaugh is both a registered nurse and an attorney. She has extensive knowledge and experience with medical terminology; anatomy and worker compensations fee sched...
Phillip N. Coover is a principal of Schenk Annes Tepper Campbell Ltd. and has been with the firm since 2005. Phillip represents local and national commercial real estate invest...
Daniel A. Cotter is Attorney and Counselor at Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC. Dan focuses his practices in a variety of areas of corporate law and litigation, including insuranc...
Michael is a partner in the boutique law firm of DeBlis Law where he specializes in tax compliance. Michael graduated from Western Michigan University School of Law in 2007 and ...
James C. Dechene has been a partner in Sidley Austin LLP’s national health care group for twenty years, and has been with the firm since 1980. Mr. Dechene is nationally known fo...
Bruce deGrazia has been a lawyer since 1984, when he began his career in the U.S. Navy, serving as a prosecutor and an advisor to the Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic Fle...
Ms. Dembo has represented adults and children in claims for Supplemental Security Income and Disabiity Insurance Benefits since she began working at Beth Alpert & Alpert & Assoc...
Swati S. Desai is an attorney in private practice in Libertyville, Illinois. She is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.) and John Marshall Law School (LL.M.,...
Mr. Dixler limits his thirty year old practice to immigration, visa law, citizenship and related matters. Many clients are family immigration clients, because he encourages fami...
Lawrence Donoghue is a practical, results oriented labor and employment lawyer with over 30 years of experience advising businesses and executives in issues governed by federal,...
Barry Doyle is the founder of the Law Offices of Barry G. Doyle, P.C. with offices in Chicago and Orland Park where he is engaged exclusively in the representation of plaintiffs...
Barry Doyle is the founder of the Law Offices of Barry G. Doyle, P.C. with offices in Chicago and Orland Park where he is engaged exclusively in the representation of plaintiffs...
Stuart Duhl serves as a business and legal counselor to his clients. He assists business owners with a variety of tax and corporate problems, and plays a major role in planning ...
Thomas Dunn has specialized in personal injury defense matters of medical mal-practice, legal mal-practice, dental mal-practice, dram shop, errors and omission insurance coverag...
Managing Director & General Counsel, Accruit, LLC Marty joined Accruit, LLC as a result of the merger into Accruit of North Star Deferred Exchange LLC, which Marty founded in ...
Michael D. Ettinger graduated from John Marshall Law School with honors in 1970. He worked as Cook County State's Attorney eventually being assigned to a felony courtroom where ...
Gary’s practice focuses on business litigation including employment and labor law and construction law. Gary brings extensive experience in litigation to LMKBW. For over seven ...
Mr. Foreman graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 1962. He obtained his doctor of law degree from DePaul University College ...
Joseph R. Fortunato Jr. is a partner in the law firm Momkus McCluskey LLC of Lisle, Illinois, where he heads the Real Estate Practice Group. He is a past Chair of the ISBA Real...
Driven and committed to help attorneys grow their law practice, Steve Fretzin is the premiere author, business coach and key-note speaker in the legal industry. He has helped hu...
Richard F. Friedman is experienced in municipal law, real estate law, public finance, litigation, eminent domain and appellate practice. Mr. Friedman is a member of the managing...
James L. Fuchs is a senior associate attorney at Snider & Associates, LLC, which he joined in 2007. He has settled numerous cases successfully for the firm. Prior to joining the...
Vice President, Mack Investment Securities, Inc. Mr. Gjertsen is Vice President of the financial planning firm of Mack Investment Securities, Inc. and the founder of The Mutua...
Frederic ("Ric) Goodwill is a trial and transactional attorney with over twenty years of experience in courtrooms and boardrooms across the country. Mr. Goodwill obtained his u...
William D. Goren, J. D. LL.M., is currently an Instructor and the Paralegal Program Coordinator at South Suburban College in South Holland and Oak Forest, Illinois. He is the au...
Ms. Granoff provides a detailed review of the stages of an investigation with guidance on responses, navigating the potential pitfalls and when representation is advised. For n...
Noel Hara is Vice President and Manager of LandAmerica 1031 Exchange Services. His current responsibilities include management of the sales and production of 1031 Tax-Deferred E...
Roderic Heard is a prominent, nationally recognized attorney and presenter. He is a partner with WILDMAN, HARROLD, ALLEN & DIXON LLP and highly experience trial attorney. Rod h...
Mr. Jernberg graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1969. He graduated from Northwestern University, cum lau...
Peter Kaminsky is an in-house corporate attorney with over fifteen years of experience negotiating and drafting software license agreements from both a vendor and customer persp...
Jefferey Ogden Katz is a leading professional liability litigation lawyer. Mr. Katz has handled hundreds of professional liability cases throughout the country, both of behalf ...
Christopher Keleher, Shareholder in Querrey & Harrow, concentrates his practice in appellate litigation. He also has experience in commercial litigation and insurance coverage....
Rachel Koch is an Assistant Public Defender of Cook County, Illinois. She currently works in the Child Protection Conflicts Division where she represents parents when the state ...
Jan Kodner graduated with honors from Chicago Kent College of Law in 1978. He graduated cum laude from University of Illinois in 1975 with a degree in accounting. Recently, Jan ...
Mat Kresz is an attorney based in Chicago. His practice includes a focus on cyber matters including data breaches, cyber security, and data privacy. Prior to law school, Ma...
15 years ago, Charles Krugel, charlesakrugel.com, started his own management side labor & employment law & human resources counseling practice. His clients are small to medium ...
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. LaMantia graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School and attended Fordham University in the Bronx, New York before retu...
Steven A. Leahy is a local Chicago Attorney and the Host of the Popular Radio Show, The IRS Radio Hour, heard in Chicago each Sunday evening at 5:00 pm on AM 560 The Answer. Ste...
David M. Lutrey is the managing partner of the Lake Forest law firm of Lesser Lutrey McGlynn & Howe, LLP. For the past 19 years, Mr. Lutrey has counseled individuals and corpor...
Education: Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1991 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, A.B., 1986 Ms. Malter worked for Political Campaigns for Illinois State R...
Jordan Marsh has litigated hundreds of cases in his nearly 30 years in practice, and has tried 69 jury trials in state and federal court, involving civil rights and personal inj...
James G. McConnell concentrates in public and private construction contracting, arbitration and litigation. In his career of over 40 years, he has handled land acquisition, site...
Erica is a graduate of Loyola University School of Law and has practiced law for more than 35 years. She concentrates her time, talents and passion on assisting clients to be ...
Anna Morrison-Ricordati practices civil litigation, business law, and animal law in Chicago, Illinois. Handling all aspects of dispute resolution, Anna has represented individua...
Jim has a national securities and commodity futures litigation practice. In addition, he has a general corporate practice, counseling business owners on: types of business entit...
Steven Murawski is an environmental attorney with the law firm U.S. Environmental Law Counsel. He regularly advises U.S. and multinational companies on environmental-related com...
Adrienne B. Naumann is licensed to practice in the State of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals ...
Nate Nieman is a private lawyer in the Quad Cities whose practice focuses on appeals, post-conviction matters, and federal criminal defense. He received his undergraduate degree...
Dr. Nordstrom, Ph.D.,J.D. is a trial consultant in Peoria, Illinois. He works primarily with trial lawyers from the Midwest and frequently speaks at national and state bar asso...
Chipo C. Nyambuya began her career as in-house legal counsel in the financial services sector with a focus on copyright, technology procurement and retail banking. She then tran...
Tom Olofsson is an attorney practicing in Illinois. He helps clients in a few limited areas of the law including planning their estates, protecting their assets and pas...
Mr. Osinski is a founding partner of the law firm of DiCaro & Osinski, LLC and represents clients in all aspects of Family and Matrimonial Law, including divorce, child support,...
Eleanor Paletta has extensive experience in employee benefits law, healthcare subrogation, overpayments, coordination of benefits, ERISA, lien laws, HIPAA compliance, the Patien...
Millie Palmer is a partner with the law firm of Waltz, Palmer & Dawson, LLC, a solely woman-owned WBE certified law firm with practices concentrating in the areas of Estates, Tr...
Thomas E. Patterson graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1976, was a salesman for one year, and then attended law school, graduating from DePaul University in 1979. In...
Cynthia Petersen is the owner/manager of Petersen Law and QDROs LLC, concentrating her practice in assisting attorneys and parties with their divorce retirement plan divisions t...
Linda S. Pieczynski is an attorney engaged in the general practice of law in Hinsdale, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She founded her law firm, Linda S. Pieczynski, Attorney at ...
Phillip’s areas of technical expertise include electronics, software, data processing, imaging, graphics, cellular, mechanical, electromechanical, electrochemical, and photonics...
John M. Quinn is the owner of John M. Quinn & Associates, Ltd. located at 9 East Irving Park Road, Roselle IL 60172. Website is www.jmqlaw.com and his email is jmqlaw@yahoo.co...
Eric Rhein earned a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University, with high honors, and a law degree from Southern Methodist University...
Aaron E. Rifkind serves as Co-Managing Partner of Rifkind Patrick LLC. Mr. Rifkind focuses his practice on business litigation and commercial transactions. He has extensive expe...
Ms. Rivera is the principle for Mediate Not Litigate where she facilitates stress free dispute resolution sessions. Individuals create their own outcome, eliminating the need fo...
David Roe practices in the area of business liability analysis, liability insurance coverage, casualty and commercial disputes. David’s practice includes litigating business iss...
David has over 40 years experience as a professional engineer.
Brad Rosley, CFP, CFS is founder and President of FFG and has been providing financial solutions to his clients since 1986. FFG is a fee-based firm, meaning that it charges a fe...
Todd M. Rowe has worked on cyber/privacy matters ranging from pre-breach consultation, breach response to cyber insurance. Todd created Tressler's Privacy Practice Group before ...
E. Leonard Rubin concentrates his practice in copyright, trademark, defamation, trade secret and entertainment law. He has extensive experience handling negotiations, legal pro...
Audrey H. Rubin is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Law Department of Aon Corporation, the leading global provider of risk management and human resources consu...
Tracy Sanders, Esq. is an accomplished attorney, author, and speaker in Los Angeles. Tracy Sanders Rucker, Esq., is a national continuing legal education (CLE) faculty and bu...
“Justice for all” is his philosophy. Justin has worked as a big firm lawyer, law professor, and judicial law clerk on the Chicago federal trial and appeals courts. Justin has be...
Tim Jon Semmerling holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University and a J.D. with certificate in criminal law from DePaul University’s College of L...
Steve Shapiro is a corporate partner in the firm’s Chicago office. He advises companies on spin-offs and works with sellers and buyers to complete mergers and acquisitions; assi...
Charles Silverman was a middle-school teacher for a number of years before making a career change to law. A graduate of DePaul University College of Law, his intellectual proper...
Office of the State Appellate Defender, Second Judicial District, Elgin, Illinois. Admitted to Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S...
Bryan Sims is a shareholder and founder of Sims Law Firm, Ltd., where he concentrates his prac-tice in the areas of commercial litigation and civil appeals. He is a member of th...
Thorn McClellan Smith, Attorney at Law and Certified Fraud Examiner, is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Northwestern University School of Law. ...
Olga Stambler graduated Magnu Cum Laude from Brandeis University in 1992 with a Bachelors of Art in Political Science. She attended Fordham University School of Law and graduate...
Anthony G. Suizzo began his career in insurance defense at Jacobs Williams and Montgomery, Ltd. He has now been a construction attorney for nearly twenty five years. Mr. Suizzo ...
Howard S. Suskin is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice and its Class Action Practice. Mr. Suskin has...
Robert R. Tepper graduated from The University of Michigan with a degree in mathematics. Mr. Tepper later attended The University of Michigan Law School in 1969. He received t...
Jonathan P. Tomes is a health care attorney practicing in the greater Kansas City area as a partner in the law firm of Tomes & Dvorak, Chartered. Jon is a member of the bar of t...
Areas of Practice/Concentration - Worker's Compensation Education - Michigan State University - Detroit College of Law J.D., 1993 - University of Wisconsin, Madison B.A., ...
Kellie Walters graduated from DePaul University with a baccalaureate in Sociology in 2001. She then spent two years working as a domestic violence counselor in an emergency shel...
Rick Weber is a practicing attorney and is frequently invited to speak as an expert in the field of Electronic Discovery at conferences and CLE seminars sponsored by corporation...
Brian Wendler is an alumnus from Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, IL. He graduated in May, 1987 on the Dean’s list and as a Graduate Research Assistant....
LA VETTA WILLIAMS has been practicing Illinois law since November 1990. In her passionate pursuit of career goals set as a 7-year-old girl, she has continued in the practice of ...
Audra worked as a welfare advocacy staff attorney with the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law for five years. At the Center, she wrote a monthly column monitoring th...
Sofia Zneimer practices in the area of business immigration and litigation and has represented multi-national corporations, individual investors, hospitals, non-profit organizat...