Commercial LitigationPersonal InjuryMedical Malpractice

• Civil Litigation Focus: extensive plaintiff and defense experience in a broad range of sophisticated litigation matters in both state and federal courts.• Trial Experience: first chair jury trial and bench trials, first chair arbitration trial, first chair evidentiary hearing experience, extensive contested motion practice (pre and post trial). • Commercial Litigation Experience: Successful litigation of business disputes, contract actions, banking litigation, construction litigation, real estate litigation, and mechanics lien actions, including all aspects of discovery and taking and defending depositions.• Banking Litigation: extensive commercial foreclosure litigation experience for plaintiff /defense; bank collection work including loan work-out experience and Chapter 11 reorganization litigation.• Bankruptcy Adversary Litigation/Bankruptcy: the litigation and trial preparation of complex adversary disputes; general bankruptcy litigation and filings.• Post-Judgment Remedies: extensive litigation of all aspects of post-judgment remedy / judgment enforcement in state and federal courts.• Class Action Experience: litigation of FACTA (FCRA) class-action litigation in Northern District of Illinois and Southern District of Florida (appearing pro hac vice).• Appellate Practice: experience drafting briefs, preparing records and motion practice.Admitted to practice: • State of Illinois: November, 2005.• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit• United States District Court, for the Northern District of Illinois; Trial Bar.• United States District Court, for the Central District of Illinois• United States District Court, for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Practice in Civil state courts, appellate advocacy, federal courts.

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