Honors and Awards:

• Marquis Who's Who in American Law
• Strathmore's Who's Who Among Medical Malpractice Lawyers
• Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s “Top Lawyer In Illinois”
• Chosen one of the Top 5% of Illinois lawyers in the fields of Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Law, Leading Lawyers Network Advisory Board
• Top 100 leading Consumer Lawyers, Leading Lawyers Network 2009-2011

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Illinois Bar Association Tort Law Section Council
• The American Association for Justice
• Medical Malpractice Committee, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA)
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• U.S. District Court District of Arizona
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court, Various Districts in Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Walking with Jesus in an Evangelical World After Growing Up Catholic, Author and Teacher
• Elder, Christ Church of Oakbrook
• Elder Council, Christ Church of Oakbrook
• Deborah House for Abused and Abandoned Girls, Romania
• Westmont Food Pantry

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• "Trial Basics--Jury Selection," presented at the Chicago Bar Association for the Illinois Bar Association Committee on Torts
• "Setting Up Experts for Cross," presented at the Chicago Bar Association for the Illinois Bar Association Committee on Torts
• "Deposing Experts," presented at the Chicago Bar Association for the Illinois Bar Association Committee on Torts
• Missed diagnoses: Routine is the enemy of good medicine, Tort Trends, May 2009 and Professional Negligence Newsletter, AAJ, March 2010
• Liability for common bile duct injuries—Measure twice, cut once, Tort Trends, April 2008--Original article to educate litigators new to bile-duct injury cases on the medicine and legal theories.

Verdicts and Settlements:

• M.T. v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital, $7,000,000 Wrongful Death-Verdict (Illinois): The hospital used a emergency room technician instead of a registered nurse to evaluate a four and half year old girl brought to the hospital with fever and severe headaches. Because of his lack of training and experience, the tech missed the little girl's stiff neck and light sensitivity, and made her wait for treatment of bacterial meningitis for almost five hours. The girl died of a brain herniation. The case went to teh jury on non-economic, loss of relationship damages only. The 1st District Appellate Court affirmed the judgment, and the full amount of the judgment and interest was paid.
• T. B. v. University of Chicago--$3,500,000 Brain Injury Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois); A nurse misread a doctor's order to give a baby .4ml of IV nutrition as being 4.0 ml. The subsequent overdose of the food (Lipids) caused the baby's heart to stop. As a result she lost a leg and suffered a serious brain injury
• M.O. v. Provena-- $1,850,000 Wrongful Death of a Child Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois)--delayed treatment of bacterial meningitis
• A.G. v. Rush Medical--$2,000,000 Injury Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois)--Woman eyesight damaged when doctor transplants infected kidney
• K.A. v. Stroger-- $1,700,000 Wrongful Death Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois)--65 year old woman dies when hospital mismanages her diabetes
• P.D. v. Michael Reese-- $2,500,000 Surgical Injury-Partial Pretrial Settlement (Illinois)--Doctors missed compartent sndrome resulting in leg amputation
• B.C. v. Provena-- $2,000,000 Wrongful Death Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Illinios)--Woman bleeds to death while in ICU
• L.C. v. St. Mary's Medical Center--$3,000,000 Wrongful Death Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois)--Surgical errors led to death.
• A.H. v. K. Gamble-- $1,500,000 Birth Injury Lawsuit-Pretrial Settlement (Georgia) for a three year-old girl who suffered cerebral palsy due to a delayed emergency cesarean section delivery

Educational Background:

• Northwestern School of Law, JD
• Loyola University of Chicago, BA in Business Marketing