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Jarard Law Group LLC is a trial law firm located in Chicago, Illinois with offices at 77 West Wacker, Suite 4500, Chicago, Illinois 60601 and 211 W. Wacker, Suite 1400 Chicago, Illinois 60601, reachable at (312) 216-5196. The firm operates under the motto “We Refuse to Lose!” and positions itself as aggressive trial lawyers who fight for their clients’ rights to the very end. Led by attorney M.A. Jarard, who can be reached directly at [email protected], the firm provides dedicated legal representation for clients facing serious legal challenges in Chicago and surrounding areas.
Jarard Law Group LLC specializes in criminal defense and personal injury cases, offering comprehensive legal services for clients who need aggressive trial representation. The firm emphasizes their commitment to fighting for clients’ rights with determination and refusing to accept subpar outcomes. Jarard Law Group LLC offers free consultations to potential clients and maintains a reputation for tenacious advocacy in both criminal defense and personal injury matters. The firm’s attorneys approach each case with the aggressive trial advocacy needed to achieve favorable results for their clients in the Chicago legal system.
Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon is a Chicago personal injury law firm located at 161 North Clark St, Ste 2200, Chicago, IL 60601 (formerly 111 West Washington St, Suite 1425), reachable at 312-977-0100 or fax 312-977-0795. The firm has recovered over $1 billion in record-setting jury verdicts, judgments, and settlements, with more than 50 verdicts and settlements exceeding $1 million. Led by Martin J. Healy Jr., John P. Scanlon, Kevin T. Veugeler, Matthew M. Gannon, Neil Schelhammer, Michael Scanlon, and Joan M. Mannix, the firm handles catastrophic injuries and contested liability cases. Notable results include $25.1 million for motor vehicle accident, $24 million for motorcycle accident, $23.7 million for truck accident, $18.9 million for product liability, $16 million for truck accident, $9.85 million for medical malpractice (secured by Matthew M. Gannon and Michael P. Scanlon for post-surgical infection following medical device implantation), $9.1 million and $8.55 million for construction accidents (with Matthew Gannon securing the latter for a construction laborer with crush injury and multiple leg fractures), $3.2 million plus $750,000 workers’ compensation waiver for sprinkler fitter who fell from ladder (Kevin Veugeler). The firm specializes in personal injury (bad faith insurance, brain injuries, head injuries, knee injuries, medical malpractice including surgical instruments left in body, neck injuries, paralysis, premises liability, shoulder injuries, slip-and-fall, spinal cord and spinal injuries, swimming pool accidents), product liability (consumer safety, children’s injuries, toys, consumer products, exercise equipment, household products, dangerous and defective automotive products including ATVs, auto recalls, car fires, defective airbags/child seats/motorcycles/helmets/seat belts/tires/vehicle components, GM ignition switches, personal watercraft, SUV rollover, Takata airbags, medical products liability, defective medical devices, drug side effects, toxic exposure), motor vehicle accidents (aviation, bicycle, boating, bus, car including cell phone/texting and fatal accidents, commercial vehicle, motorcycle, train including Amtrak CTA, pedestrian, truck accidents on I-290, I-294, I-39, I-55, I-57, I-80, I-90, I-94, delivery trucks, distracted/DUI/fatigued truck drivers, overloaded tractor-trailers, semi-truck jackknife), construction accidents (asbestos, falls, injuries, vehicle injury, crane, dangerous tools, defective equipment/machinery/roof structures, falls from heights, forklift, ladder, trench collapse, unsafe ladders and scaffolding), railroad accidents, nursing home abuse (bed sores, dehydration, malnutrition, elder abuse, medication errors, staffing issues, sepsis, unexpected death, wandering, elopement), medical malpractice, wrongful death, and workers’ compensation (back injuries from heavy lifting, carpal tunnel syndrome, factory injuries, repetitive stress injuries). They accept cases on contingency fee basis with no charge for initial consultation, offering evening and weekend consultations.
Anesi Ozmon, LTD is a personal injury and workers’ compensation law firm located at 161 North Clark Street, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60601, reachable at (312) 971-8246 for new clients and free consultations or (312) 971-1797 for existing clients. Since the firm’s inception in 1955, they have recovered billions of dollars including many multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts. The legal team includes Jeffrey M. Alter (President & Managing Partner), John M. Popelka (Senior Partner), Steven A. Berman, Brian D. Teven, David Figlioli, Scott C. Sands, Robert Cheris (Partners), Steve A. Wade, Scott P. Moran, Patricia J. Kuzebski, Alon Spevak (Associates), Douglas A. Colby, and Brandon M. Collins (Of Counsel). Notable case results include a $67,000,000 verdict for a worker who suffered burn injuries in a grain bin explosion at a ConAgra, Inc. facility in Chester, Illinois, $24,250,000 settlement for an ironworker rendered quadriplegic from a 50-foot fall, $22,000,000 combined settlement for seven masons injured in a masonry wall collapse, and $20,937,000 verdict for an ironworker whose arm was severed by a 550-lb steel beam.
The firm concentrates on representing people with personal injury, workers’ compensation, and construction accident claims, with particular pride in working for injured union members and first responders. Practice areas include car accidents, truck accidents, bicycle accidents, CTA/Metra/mass transit accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, nursing home abuse, premises liability, products liability, child injury, catastrophic injury including back injuries, brain injuries, neurological injuries, orthopedic injuries, wrongful death, and medical malpractice. Workers’ compensation services encompass career-ending injuries, death and dependency claims, denied benefits, lost time benefits, lump sum benefits, medical benefits compensation, permanent partial disability, repetitive trauma, total disability, and vocational rehabilitation. The firm also handles construction accidents including falls, power tool accidents, heavy equipment accidents, crane accidents, trench collapse, and serves first responders with police officer disability, firefighter disability, PEDA benefits, PSEBA benefits, occupational disease, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) claims. Anesi Ozmon, LTD attorneys return every phone call within 24 hours, provide personal mobile phone numbers, can meet clients the same day including Saturdays, and operate on a contingency basis with no payment unless they recover compensation, serving the Greater Chicago metropolitan area and across Illinois.
Power Rogers LLP is a Chicago personal injury law firm located at 70 West Madison Street, Suite 5500, Chicago, IL 60602, reachable at 312-212-0392 or 312-236-9381. Founded in 1993, the firm has recovered over $5 billion for clients and been named No. 1 Firm in Dollars Recovered for clients 13 of the last 15 years by Chicago Lawyer. Founding partner Joseph A. Power Jr. has obtained more than 200 jury verdicts and settlements exceeding $1 million, including the $55.4 million largest jury verdict in Illinois history for medical malpractice and $100 million recovery in trucking case leading to 76 criminal convictions including the former Governor of Illinois in the “licenses for bribes” scandal. Partner Larry R. Rogers Jr. has over 30 years experience as equity partner. Notable verdicts and settlements include $100 million settlement for truck accidents/wrongful death/product liability, $95.4 million and $91 million verdicts for truck accidents and personal injury, $93 million settlement for personal injury/aviation accidents/product liability, $55.4 million verdict for medical malpractice/catastrophic injuries/brain injuries, $50 million, $47.5 million, and multiple $40 million settlements for personal injury and medical malpractice, $39.9 million for truck accidents/wrongful death, $38.25 million for truck accidents, $35 million settlements for birth injuries and medical malpractice, $33.4 million verdict for wrongful death, numerous $30 million, $25 million, $23 million, $21 million, $20 million, $19 million, $18 million, $17 million, $16 million, $15 million, $14 million, $13 million, $12 million, $11 million, and $10 million verdicts and settlements across medical malpractice, birth injuries, wrongful death, truck accidents, civil rights, police misconduct, personal injury, catastrophic injuries, brain injuries, and more. The firm handles Chicago personal injury (pedestrian, bicycle, aviation, boat, bus, construction, motorcycle, train, third-party accident claims), Chicago medical malpractice (hospital negligence, emergency room errors, medication errors, misdiagnosis, cancer misdiagnosis, surgical errors, deep vein thrombosis, heart attack misdiagnosis, hemorrhagic stroke, undiagnosed internal bleeding, sepsis), Chicago wrongful death (next of kin, damages, caps, Illinois Wrongful Death Act), Chicago car accidents (wrong-way driving, tire blowout, night driving, hit and run, head-on collisions, drunk driving, distracted driving), and Chicago birth injuries (birth paralysis, brachial plexus nerve injuries, birth asphyxia, C-section injuries, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, maternal death, cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, errors in inducing labor, placental abruption, failure to treat maternal infections/preeclampsia, forceps injuries, head cooling treatment, hypoxia, infant torticollis, Klumpke’s palsy, neonatal subgaleal hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, vacuum delivery injuries).
Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyers is a Chicago law firm located at 833 W Chicago Ave, Suite 303, Chicago, IL 60462, reachable at 312-883-6907 or fax 312-481-7927. Led by Adam J. Zayed, the firm has recovered over $100 million in malpractice settlements, representing clients in Cook County, Will County, DuPage County and throughout the Chicagoland area. Notable settlements include $2,250,000 for back injuries requiring lumbar fusion from a commercial vehicle crash, $1,770,000 for a client injured by a Cook County Forest Preserve Officer (more than 17x medical bills), $1,300,000 for a truck maintenance accident crush injury, $1,250,000 in a confidential medical malpractice case, $1,100,000 for back injuries at a Chicagoland grocery store slip and fall, $1,000,000 for wrongful death from complicated medical malpractice, $950,000 for negligent laparoscopic gallbladder surgery involving transected common bile duct and duodenum, $900,000 in what is thought to be a record for medical malpractice survival claim for an octogenarian decedent whose only heir was a nephew, $485,000 for laparoscopic cholecystectomy injury, $475,000 for failure to diagnose prostate cancer resulting in spine metastases, $200,000 each for severed bile duct during routine gallbladder surgery and for transected common bile duct immediately recognized during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and $200,000 for nursing home fall with femur fracture due to improper gait belt use. The firm also secured $2,122,200 judgment including $2,000,000 in punitive damages for commodities fraud by church members. According to the firm, 1 in 3 care providers is sued for medical malpractice during their careers, with medical providers making avoidable errors in 3% to 15% of all medical interventions. They handle birth injuries, cerebral palsy, surgical errors, anesthesia errors, wrong diagnosis, and failure to diagnose cases. The firm offers 24/7 availability, free case evaluations, and represents clients throughout Illinois regardless of location. Adam J. Zayed has extensive experience with bile duct injuries, laparoscopic surgical injuries, prostate cancer misdiagnosis, and nursing home negligence cases. In Illinois, medical malpractice lawsuits must be filed within 2 years from the date of alleged malpractice or discovery of injury, with no statutory caps on damages. The average medical malpractice settlement ranges from tens of thousands to several hundred thousand dollars, with 96.9% of cases settling out of court.
Bellas & Wachowski Attorneys at Law is a business and personal injury law firm that has served clients for more than 40 years, with offices at 15 N. Northwest Hwy, Park Ridge, IL 60068 reachable at (800) 825-9260 or (847) 823-9030, and 120 N LaSalle St 32nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60602 by appointment only. Founded by nationally recognized attorneys George Bellas and Peter Wachowski, the firm has served as business advisors to hundreds of small business owners while also handling complex lawsuits against large corporations. The legal team includes Vicki Hathaway Gonzalez, Tracy A. Ries, Kelsey Feucht, and Margaret Melaniphy, providing services in both English and Polish at (847) 823-9039 for Polish-speaking clients. The firm counsels clients on avoiding legal problems, protecting families, offering superior litigation skills, and solving problems efficiently and economically.
The business law practice guides clients through the entire business life cycle from formation to sale or dissolution, handling transactional matters and litigation involving business formation with LLCs and corporations, business operations including contracts, tax compliance, intellectual property protection, business litigation between partners or shareholders, and employment law defending against discrimination or retaliation claims. Personal injury services encompass car accidents, truck accidents weighing up to 80,000 pounds causing spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, broken limbs or death, motorcycle accidents, slip and fall accidents, medical malpractice including misdiagnoses, surgical errors, anesthesia errors and birth injuries, product liability under strict liability theory, construction accidents with workers’ compensation and third-party claims, and wrongful death claims seeking compensation for medical treatment, burial expenses, and family support. Bellas & Wachowski serves Cook County localities including Arlington Heights, Barrington, Chicago, Des Plaines, Elgin, Elk Grove, Elmwood Park, Evanston, Franklin Park, Glenview, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Melrose Park, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Norridge, Northbrook, Oak Park, Palatine, Palos Park, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Rosemont, Schaumburg, Skokie, and Wheeling, plus DuPage County including Addison, Bensenville, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Naperville, Aurora, and Bolingbrook.
Law Offices of Goldberg & Goldberg is a Chicago medical malpractice and personal injury law firm located at 33 N Dearborn St #1930, Chicago, IL 60602, reachable at 312-368-0255, fax 312-368-0368, or toll-free 877-368-0233. Founded over 60 years ago, the firm has successfully represented victims throughout Illinois and across the U.S., with members licensed in Illinois, New York, Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, Colorado, and California, having tried or settled cases in 25 states. Senior partner Barry Goldberg achieved the $127 million verdict in a drug product liability case, which stood as the largest individual personal injury award in Illinois history for over 25 years. The firm has attained more than 175 verdicts and settlements exceeding $1 million each, recovering an aggregate total of over $1 billion for clients. Recent results include $25 million in wrongful death, $18 million for pedestrian knockdown, $12.5 million in anesthesia malpractice, $12 million in obstetrical malpractice, $16 million for over-radiation of a cancer survivor, $7.5 million in vascular surgery malpractice, $7.0 million in above-the-knee amputation, and over $7 million for misdiagnosed post-surgical bleed wrongful death. The firm handles medical malpractice, personal injury, birth injuries, sexual abuse (representing victims for almost 30 years including victims of R. Kelly), products liability, premises liability, car accidents, truck accidents, railroad and train accidents (with extensive experience litigating Illinois rail traffic cases), construction accidents, nursing home abuse and neglect, and wrongful death. Partners include Barry D. Goldberg, Ian R. Alexander (featured on Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly Part 2” after 25 years representing sexual abuse victims), Michael J. Cox, Martin N. Preiser, Katrina Taraska Simon, Joseph Preiser, and Robert Goldberg (Of Counsel), with late founders Barth H. Goldberg (1940-2015) and Peter A. Nicholson (1959-2021). The firm serves Calumet City, Chicago, Chicago Heights, Cicero, Evanston Township, Ford Heights, Forest Park, Glenview, Harvey, La Grange, Lincolnwood, Melrose Park, New Trier Township, Northbrook, Oak Brook, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Oak Park Township, Olympia Fields, Orland Hills, Orland Park, Orland Township, Palos Heights, Palos Township, Riverdale, Skokie, Wilmette, and Cook County.
Eames Law Group is a Chicago workers’ compensation and personal injury law firm with its main office at 542 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 650, Chicago, IL 60605, reachable at 312-971-3424. Founded by Brent R. Eames, who has built a solid reputation for winning exceptional settlements for first responders, the firm includes attorney Olga Beznashchuk and focuses exclusively on workers’ compensation and personal injury cases since 2001. Notable verdicts and settlements include $2.6 million lifetime disability benefits award, $2.5 million lifetime disability benefits award, $2.2 million car accident settlement requiring back surgery, $2.1 million lifetime disability benefits award, $2.0 million lifetime disability benefits award, and $710,000 verdict for multiple surgeries from automobile collision. The firm has won millions of dollars in settlements using aggressive trial tactics and compassionate advocacy, representing workers, first responders, and injured citizens across Chicago and Illinois. They handle workers’ compensation (construction workers, factory workers, office workers, truck drivers, union workers, airplane employees), personal injury (car and motor vehicle accidents, bike accidents, slip and fall, dog bites, wrongful death, construction accidents), and specialize in first responder benefits including police injuries, firefighter injuries, EMT and paramedic injuries, public employee disability act, and public safety employee benefits act. Brent Eames is known statewide for securing top-dollar verdicts, awards, and settlements for first responders, ensuring they receive all benefits they worked for as public employees. The firm promises clients won’t settle for less than deserved, won’t be irritated about lack of communication, won’t become one of hundreds of cases, won’t be confused about steps or strategy, and will have direct access to attorneys rather than only legal assistants. They approach every case with strategy, creativity, and relentless pursuit of justice, with many awards reaching multimillion-dollar ranges. The firm offers free initial case evaluations and has represented Chicago police officers on disability threatened with losing benefits if they didn’t return to work as dispatchers.
Albrecht Law Offices is a personal injury law firm located at 211 W. Wacker, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60606, reachable at (312) 983-7000 or fax (312) 786-5411. Led by sole practitioner Robert Albrecht, who manages every aspect of clients’ cases without passing them between associates, the firm has extensive experience getting compensation for victims throughout Chicagoland. Recent victories include a $2,250,000 settlement in 2021 for a passenger with degloving injuries in a Berwyn, Illinois rollover collision, $965,000 settlement in 2018 achieved on the first day of trial for a woman who lost her pregnancy in an intersection crash, $350,000 settlement in 2018 at mediation for a father and daughter in a high-speed head-on crash, $350,000 result in 2017 for a woman in a collision with a truck crossing five lanes, and $300,000 in 2021 for a bus passenger after the driver fell asleep and struck a street light pole head-on.
Robert Albrecht is known throughout Chicagoland for his substantial understanding of the law, strategic legal approach, and unwavering commitment to clients, having dedicated his career to helping personal injury victims with motor vehicle collisions, workplace accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, sexual abuse, dangerous premises, defective products, and dog bites. Additional notable results include $250,000 policy limit settlement in 2021 for a man hit by a car crossing mid-block after blackbox data showed the driver was 30 mph over the speed limit, $189,500 in 2019 prior to trial for a bicyclist requiring knee surgery after a limousine driver opened his door into the bicyclist lane, $160,000 in 2020 against a Chicago-area hospital at mediation for negligence during an IV iron infusion procedure, and $156,000 in 2018 at pretrial conference for a trip-and-fall after a subcontractor left debris on a walkway. The firm has financial and legal resources to handle complex issues, creates aggressive negotiation strategies, and is ready to take matters to court when negotiations fall through, providing compassionate genuine concern while working quickly to prevent delays and ensure prompt case handling.
Salk, Flores & Broderick Attorneys at Law is a Chicago workers’ compensation and personal injury law firm located at 225 W Hubbard St., #650, Chicago, IL 60654, reachable at 312-782-3529. The firm is backed by reputation and focused on justice, serving as aggressive, results-driven advocates using every legal resource available. With over 200 cases referred annually, their skilled trial lawyers have built their reputation on thousands of successful cases and ongoing referrals from satisfied clients, doctors, and union representatives. Recognized as Chicago’s leading experts in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases, the firm stands up to large companies and insurance providers to secure justice and compensation. Insurance companies know they don’t back down, approaching every case as if headed to trial with thorough preparation and attention to detail, which often secures maximum settlements without trial costs and uncertainty. The firm combines compassionate care with aggressive legal representation, understanding the emotional and physical toll of personal injuries and workplace accidents while providing personalized support with empathy. They handle personal injury, workers’ compensation, birth injury, construction accidents, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, repetitive trauma claims, traumatic brain injury, and wrongful death. The attorneys’ collective background in personal injury and workers’ compensation positions them strongly to achieve maximum compensation and benefits. Clients frequently refer friends and family, serving as the firm’s strongest advocates. For those with catastrophic injuries, construction accidents, workplace injuries, medical malpractice, wrongful death, or other serious harm involving workers’ compensation or personal injury claims, the firm provides direct representation with expertise and resources, no referrals to outside firms. They offer free confidential consultations with flexible appointment options, treating clients with utmost compassion and respect while standing by their side throughout the process. Services are available in both English and Spanish (ES).
