Areas of Practice

• 100% Workers' Compensation Law

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1986
• U.S. District Court, 1986
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1999

Education

• John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1986
  
  
• North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, 1981
  B.A.
  Major: Business
  
  

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Continuing Legal Education -- Workers Compensation Law, Illinois State Bar Association, 1995 - 2001
• WC Law, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1988 - 2001

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Dupage County Bar Association, 1998 - 1999
  President
  
  
• Illinois State Bar Association, 2000 - 2001
  Chair, WC Law Section Council
  
  
• Illinois State Bar Association, 2001 - 2002
  Chair, Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Peregrine, Stime, Newman, Ritzman & Bruckner, Associate Attorney, 1986 - 1992
• Hartford Insurance Co., Workers' Compensation Claims Supervisor, 1975 - 1986

Pro Bono Activities

• Secretary of Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, 1999 - Present

Birth Information

• 1953, Aurora, Illinois