Bartelso Civil Rights Lawyers

Mr. Foutris has firsthand experience with police abuse. As a teenager, Bill had a gun pointed at his head by an officer during a traffic stop. Why? Because the officer thought he was driving in the wrong neighborhood. That experience is Bill’s daily motivation to achieve justice and results for his clients in civil rights and police brutality cases.

Michael Kanovitz is a partner at Loevy & Loevy where he concentrates in class actions, constitutional law, and whistleblower protection under the federal and state False Claims Acts. His cases have resulted in verdicts and settlements of over $125 million to his clients. He was recently recognized for his outstanding litigation and trial skills in the Law Bulletin’s prestigious 40-under-40 attorneys to watch. On the national scene, Mr. Kanovitz recently handled several cases brought by whistleblowers against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In Vance et al. v. Rumsfeld, Mr. Kanovitz is lead counsel for two whistleblowers who were...

Juliet Berger-White is a partner at the Chicago law firm Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., where she has practiced since 2001. Juliet graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, cum laude, in 1999, where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. After law school, before entering private practice, Juliet clerked for two years for United States District Court Judge Barbara B. Crabb. Juliet represents whistleblowers in qui tam litigation as well as counsels clients on the employment issues related to being a whistleblower. In addition to representing whistleblowers, Juliet represents clients...