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Dennis VanDerGinst
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 33 years of experience
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DePaul College of Law
Dennis VanDerGinst is the President/CEO of VanDerGinst Law, one of the most successful personal injury law firms in the country. He has been a tireless advocate for his clients and a stalwart ambassador for his profession. As a result, he has been recognized as one of the best in the country by clients, peers, and other professionals.
Dennis received his law degree from DePaul University in Chicago. He is licensed to practice in Illinois, Iowa, and the federal courts. During his career he has represented clients in almost every state of the country. The focus of his practice has been on...
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Timothy Sean Mahoney
Freeport, IL Personal Injury Lawyer
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Northern Illinois University College of Law
Tim Mahoney is the principal attorney at Mahoney & Mahoney, LLC. As a lawyer specializing in personal injury, he has covered many injury types, ranging from motor vehicle accidents like car, motorcycle, and truck accidents to nursing home abuse and neglect. Tim Mahoney’s decades of experience can help your claim succeed.
After graduating from St. Ambrose University in 1989, Tim Mahoney pursued a Juris Doctor from Northern Illinois University College of Law. There, he was the third person to be inducted into the Moot Court Hall of Fame. He graduated in 1992.
While attorney Tim Mahoney has practiced in many...
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Eric Bodo
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer
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DePaul College of Law
C. Eric Bodo grew up in Mundelein, Illinois, and attended Carmel High School in the northern suburbs. Eric graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts. He went on to receive his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago in 1996 and was admitted to the Illinois Bar.
Before coming to VanDerGinst Law, Eric was a partner in his own firm with offices in Chicago and Northbrook, Illinois where he represented seriously injured individuals and their families. Before starting his firm in 2014, Eric worked for a large, high-volume personal injury firm...
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Clarissa Rietveld
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 3 years of experience
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Drake University Law School
Clarissa Rietveld was born in Iowa and raised in Rushville, Indiana. She received her Associate’s Degree in Nursing in 2009 and worked as a registered nurse in operating rooms across the Midwest and on the East Coast. While working as a nurse, Ms. Rietveld had a patient whose medical history documented that he did not have regular access to food and was starving. Ms. Rietveld spent the afternoon working with hospital social services to arrange for her patient to gain access to regular meals and was shocked to learn that he didn’t qualify for any of the available programs. She...
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Athena Farmakis
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 29 years of experience
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DePaul College of Law
Athena Farmakis was born and raised in the Chicagoland area, graduated with a B.A. from Northwestern University, and received her law degree from DePaul University College of law. With over 25 years of litigation experience, Athena has tried 67 jury trials and hundreds of bench trials in complex and media-sensitive cases. Athena currently practices in all areas of personal injury including motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, product liability, construction accidents, animal attacks, negligent security, wrongful death, nursing home abuse and medical malpractice.
As a former prosecutor, Athena dedicated much of her legal career to serving the public for over 20 years...
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Ralph E Elliott
Freeport, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Personal Injury, Agricultural, Business and Estate Planning
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Ralph Elliott has been engaged in the practice of law in Freeport, Illinois since 1981. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a Bachelor of Science Degree, Summa Cum Laude, earning Phi Beta Kappa recognition in 1978.He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1981.
Ralph is admitted to the practice of law in the state of Illinois, the federal courts for the Northern District of Illinois (including the Trial Bar), the Central District of Illinois, and the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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Dustin Gomez
Moline, IL Personal Injury Attorney
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Drake University Law School
Dustin Gomez was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Iowa. At the University of Iowa, he also completed a M.S.W. degree in social work. After completing his graduate degree, he attended law school at Drake University.
Upon completing his degree in Law, Dustin served for three years as Assistant County Attorney at the Webster County Attorney’s Office in Fort Dodge, IA. He has also worked in Black Hawk and Dubuque County Attorney’s offices. Dustin has tried 10 jury trials and over 50 bench trials on various criminal offenses.
Upon leaving prosecution,...
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Bridget C. Trainor
Freeport, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 14 years of experience
Personal Injury, Business, Collections and Consumer
University of Iowa
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Jack Allen Schwartz
Rock Island, IL Personal Injury Lawyer
1800 3rd Ave
Rock Island, IL 61201
Personal Injury, Criminal, DUI and Social Security Disability
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James Mertes
Sterling, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 28 years of experience
Personal Injury, Criminal, Divorce and Medical Malpractice
Andrew Larson
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Personal Injury, Civil Rights, Criminal and Divorce
Andrew Larson
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Personal Injury, Criminal, Divorce and Elder
Andrew Larson
Moline, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Personal Injury, Criminal, Divorce and Elder
Michael Galvin
Rock Island, IL Personal Injury Attorney
Personal Injury, Criminal and DUI
Bruce Buckrop
Rock Island, IL Personal Injury Lawyer
Personal Injury, Bankruptcy and Real Estate
Louis Pignatelli
Rock Falls, IL Personal Injury Lawyer
Personal Injury and Criminal
Herbert Schultz Jr
Rock Island, IL Personal Injury Attorney
Personal Injury, Business, Criminal and Divorce
Andrew Larson
Moline, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 21 years of experience
Personal Injury, Criminal, Divorce and Elder
Scott A Schoen
Princeton, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 9 years of experience
James Neppl
Rock Island, IL Personal Injury Lawyer
Personal Injury, Divorce, Family and Workers' Comp
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Donald J Ramsell
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Personal Injury, Criminal, DUI and Traffic Tickets
DePaul College of Law
Donald J. Ramsell, author of several DUI articles and books, is the one of the few DUI defense attorneys to appear and argue on a DUI case before the United States Supreme Court in its entire 213 years of existence. In his 33 year career his firms have defended 15,000 clients.
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Andy Hale
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Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfPeoria, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 35 years of experience
Personal Injury and Civil Rights
University of Illinois College of Law
With over 30 years of experience, Andy Hale is a seasoned trial attorney and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases. Mr. Hale started his legal career at a boutique litigation firm in Florida and then later moved back to Chicago and joined the firm Katten Muchin & Zavis as an attorney in the litigation practice group.
In 2008, Mr. Hale started his own firm and his practice focused on defending the City of Chicago and Chicago police officers in civil rights cases, as well as commercial litigation matters.
In 2019, Mr. Hale joined forces with Brian T. Monico, a...
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Dan Nold
Crystal Lake, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 9 years of experience
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Saint Louis University School of Law
(815) CALL-DAN I'm a criminal defense trial lawyer who has first chaired dozens of jury trials to verdict and hundreds of bench trials and contested hearings in the last 6 years. I am now a resident of Crystal Lake, Illinois and have made McHenry County my home. I am committed to advocating for my clients to protect their rights from the government throughout all stages of the criminal process. I am also an avid advocate for victims of domestic violece in order of protection proceedings for petitioners as well as respondents. If your case involves a...
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Rachel Legorreta
St. Charles, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 5 years of experience
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Northern Illinois University College of Law
Rachel received her undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Political Science, with double minors in Philosophy and History. In 2014, Rachel received the History Department’s James R. Shirley Essay Prize for her research paper on the Soviet Union’s gulag system.
After graduation, Rachel enrolled in Northern Illinois University’s College of Law, where she served as the Symposium Editor for the Northern Illinois University Law Review and as Clerk for Phi Alpha Delta’s Dooley Chapter. Her Law Review article, Battle for Baby: Proposed Legislation for Custody Battles over Frozen Pre-Embryos, was published in the...
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Mark Karno
Aurora, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 39 years of experience
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Illinois Institute of Technology
Principal of a 6 attorney law firm that concentrates its practice in all aspects of Civil Trial Practice and Appeals in all State and Federal Courts in the Northeastern Illinois geographical area with a focus on catastrophic bodily injury and death claims concentrating in the representation of clients in their nursing home neglect, motor vehicle negligence and premises liability claims. The firm also represents clients in their Workers Compensation Act claims and their commercial and residential real estate transactions and associated litigation.
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Kenneth "Casey" Woodruff
Aurora, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Experienced. Tough. Driven. Put these three words together and you have defined the lead attorney at the firm of Woodruff Johnson & Evans. Over the course of his career, Mr. Woodruff has handled thousands of injury claims, recovering millions of dollars for people who have been hurt. Through it all, Mr. Woodruff has fought tirelessly to prevent corporations and big insurance companies from trampling on the rights of working men and women. For instance, on 40 different occasions, Mr. Woodruff represented employees from the University of Illinois who were denied their workers’ compensation rights after suffering repetitive-work injuries to their...
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Vito Manicioto
Rockford, IL Personal Injury Attorney
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The John Marshall Law School
Attorney Manicioto's has dealt with both insurance matters and personal injury law. Before becoming a lawyer at Hupy & Abraham, he tried dozens of jury trials to verdict and won. He has also arbitrated a large number of cases. He works tirelessly to seek compensation for the firm's clients. Attorney Manicioto was promoted to company shareholder in 2019.
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Russell Haugen
Aurora, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 12 years of experience
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Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
To seek out and maintain justice is Russell Haugen's goal as an Illinois personal injury attorney. Russell Haugen attended Illinois State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Throughout his undergraduate degree, Russ worked as a paralegal for Woodruff Johnson & Evans Law Offices. As a paralegal, he was able to learn a great deal about the many intricacies of both workers' compensation and personal injury law. This further convinced him to pursue a law degree.
Russell Haugen attended Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. There, he was a volunteer for the Lansing Teen Court, working...
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John Waldman
Pekin, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury and Workers' Comp
University of Illinois College of Law
A lifelong resident of Illinois, John Waldman raised his family in the Pekin/Peoria area, where he resides today. John attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, graduating with University Honors with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Paralegal Studies. He began practicing law after graduating from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1988.
After law school, John began working for a law firm that primarily did work for insurance companies, defending personal injury and workers' compensation claims. Trying to save insurance companies money at the expense of innocent accident victims was not very rewarding. He joined Kanoski Bresney in...
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James Carlson
Rockford, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 10 years of experience
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Marquette University Law School
I joined Hupy and Abraham in 2016. Prior to joining the firm, I spent time doing insurance defense, product liability, pedestrian accident, motorcycle accidents, dog bites, and slip and fall cases. I was born and raised in the Rockford area and am happy to serve the community I grew up in.
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Daniel R. Flaherty
Plainfield, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 15 years of experience
(815) 577-7500
24047 W. Lockport Street, Suite 201C
Plainfield, IL 60544
Personal Injury, Nursing Home, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
William Mitchell College of Law
Daniel R. Flaherty, founder and managing attorney of Flaherty Law,LLC is a respected and accomplished trial lawyer with a history of success representing both plaintiffs and defendants. His practice focuses on personal injury matters, wrongful death, nursing home negligence, product liability, and estate planning. Daniel began his career in insurance defense litigation representing individuals in personal injury and property damage matters. In 2010, he decided his true passion was representing individuals injured due to no fault of their own. So, Daniel joined a larger, Chicago-area trial firm and began exclusively representing individuals in various personal injury matters. In his...
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James Reilly
Streator, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 43 years of experience
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Loyola University Chicago School of Law
James T. Reilly has been practicing since 1979. He is an experienced trial lawyer with over fifty jury cases tried to verdict. He concentrates his practice in both civil and criminal litigation. Jury awards include medical malpractice, wrongful death, fraud prosecution and various types of personal injuries. He has defended cases in criminal courts ranging from fitness trials in murder cases to DUI’s. In addition to these, he has successfully defended persons charged with arson, aggravated battery, drug offenses and other felonies and misdemeanors.
Reilly has served as a LaSalle County Assistant Public Defender since 2000. He represents clients before the...
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James K. Theisen
Rockford, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 20 years of experience
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Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Attorney Theisen joined Hupy and Abraham in 2014 as an associate attorney to work in our Rockford office. With more than a decade of experience, he’s handled insurance defense litigation, subrogation and personal injury.
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Dexter Evans
Aurora, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Northern Illinois University College of Law
At a very young age, Dexter John Evans envisioned himself as an advocate for the sick and injured. The grandson of a Chicago union worker, he has always felt a strong urge to help those trying to protect their rights. It is from this foundation that Dexter established himself as an aggressive advocate for the rights of his clients. “The greatest satisfaction in my profession is the gratitude of my clients. There is no better feeling than to get a hug from a client who is in tears because they finally received the justice they deserve. The thank you letters...
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David N. Metnick
Rockford, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 16 years of experience
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The John Marshall Law School
I joined Hupy and Abraham as an Associate Attorney in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, I practiced as an Assistant State’s Attorney at the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office. In this role, I prosecuted numerous felony cases.
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Paul H. Millewich
St. Charles, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 45 years of experience
(630) 443-0600
https://bankruptcy.mevorahlaw.com/
333 N. Randall Road, Suite 104
St. Charles, IL 60175
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Family and Workers' Comp
George Washington University - Mount Vernon campus
Paul Henry Millewich graduated from the National Law Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and received his B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Paul's experience in the Coast Guard has allowed him to assist clients with complex mechanical, technical, and engineering cases involving injuries and wrongful death. Mr. Millewich has dedicated his practice to representing injured clients in Product Liability and Medical Malpractice cases. Paul has been a Personal Injury attorney for 33 years, and he is an experienced and skilled litigator. Every case Paul accepts is prepared for trial. He is...
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Jason Schneider
St. Charles, IL Personal Injury Attorney with 11 years of experience
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The John Marshall Law School
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Steven B. Ekker
Sugar Grove, IL Personal Injury Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury and Medical Malpractice
Northern Illinois University College of Law
Attorney Steven Ekker began practicing law in Illinois in 1993. Since then, he has distinguished himself throughout Illinois courtrooms for outstanding legal services in a wide variety of practice areas. Focusing on civil litigation, Mr. Ekker is skilled in handling cases involving: personal injury; commercial and business disputes; real estate litigation; general civil litigation; divorce and family law; contract disputes; wage, salary, commission and other employment disputes; foreclosures; defamation; and, appeals.
With experience representing both sides of civil disputes, Mr. Ekker is able to effectively anticipate strategies from opposing counsel. He has a track record for success both in state and...
