Honors and Awards:

• Illinois Super Lawyer Listing
• Leading Illinois Attorney Listing

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Lecturer, Various Construction Trade Unions
• Lecturer, John Marshall Law School
• Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Continuing Education
• Lecturer, Illinois State Bar Association
• Lecturer, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association - Workers Compensation Notebook (Employee-Employer Chapter)

Verdicts and Settlements:

• $600,000+ award for a school administrator who died as a result of mental stress.
• $178,000 for modifications to a home for a paraplegic needing accomodations.
• $245,000.00 lump sum settlement for a painter who had 2 surgeries to his knee.
• $438,000.00 lump sum for a totally denied claim on behalf of a widower whose wife died while attending a business dinner.
• $375,000.00 lump sum for a union ironworker who fell 25 feet sustaining multiple injuries but able to return to work.
• $425,000.00 for a local #1 union ironworker with an unoperated low back injury and permanent weight restrictions.
• $170,000 for a handicap-accessible home and van for a union roofer who became paralyzed after a fall.
• $195,000 for a handicap-accessible home and van for a union ironworker who became paralyzed after a fall.
• $200,000.00 lump sum settlement for a Local #1 ironworker with an unoperated back injury.
• $200,000+ award for a construction worker injured in a fall but denied Workers' Compensation.
• $215,000 for a handicap-accessible home and van for a union ironworker who became paralyzed after a fall.
• $222,500.00 settlement for an electrician with an operated shoulder.
• $250,000.00 settlement for a Local #1 ironworker with a knee and back injury.
• $250,000 lump sum settlement for a union ironworker with a knee injury requiring an arthroscopic procedure.
• $335,000.00 lump sum settlement for a truck driver who was severely injured after being run over at a gas station.
• $645,000.00 settlement on a totally disputed case for a laborer who had an unwitnessed fall off a ladder sustaining a brain injury.
• $12,000,000 settlement in favor of a catastrophically injured worker.

Representative Clients:

• Catastrophic Injuries
• Union Construction Workers

Educational Background:

• Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, B.A., Cum Laude, Marketing, 1979