Haxel Law is a dedicated personal injury law firm serving Springfield, Illinois and Central Illinois, led by founding attorney Martin Haxel who brings more than three decades of experience in personal injury and workers’ compensation law. With decades of legal experience and over 100 trials and appeals, the firm has recovered millions of dollars for their clients while maintaining a singular mission of achieving justice for accident victims. Martin Haxel previously represented insurance companies, giving him invaluable insight into their tactics and strategies to limit financial responsibility, knowledge he now uses to help injury victims recover the compensation they deserve. The firm specializes in a comprehensive range of practice areas including car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, wrongful death, pedestrian accidents, spinal injuries, brain injuries, work accidents, and specialized services for police and firefighter workers’ compensation and pension applications. As a truly local law firm, Haxel Law takes pride in being an integral part of the Springfield community, serving friends, neighbors, and families with dedication and compassion.
Haxel Law distinguishes itself through personalized representation, tailoring their approach to suit each client’s specific goals, whether seeking a swift settlement or pursuing trial for maximum compensation. The firm’s deep understanding of insurance company operations, gained from Martin Haxel’s prior experience representing insurers, provides a strategic advantage in negotiations and litigation. Clients consistently praise the firm’s honesty, integrity, and sincere understanding of their situations, with testimonials highlighting Martin’s no-nonsense approach, transparent communication, and genuine care for client wellbeing. The firm maintains a realistic and honest approach, providing clients with a clear picture of both positive and potentially negative aspects of their cases while serving as a strong advocate during difficult times. With a stellar reputation throughout Central Illinois and a commitment to making the legal process as easy as possible for injured individuals and their families, Haxel Law offers free consultations to discuss how they can help accident victims navigate their claims and rebuild their lives. Potential clients can reach the firm at their Springfield office located at 310 E Adams St, Springfield, IL 62701 or by calling (217) 215-4166.
McCleery Law is a personal injury law firm founded by Daniel McCleery in 2022, serving clients throughout Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa with offices in Quincy, Illinois and Springfield, Illinois. Dan McCleery was born and raised in Central Illinois and has practiced in Central Illinois, Eastern Missouri, and Southeastern Iowa since 2015, initially handling a mix of cases for the injured as well as for corporations, insurance companies, and hospital groups before founding McCleery Law to focus solely on providing for the injured. The firm handles cases for motor vehicle accidents, personal injuries, wrongful deaths, defective products, business disputes, and agricultural injuries on behalf of injured people and their families. McCleery Law has recovered millions of dollars for clients and provides professional and effective representation with a thorough understanding of motor vehicle accidents, personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death law matters. The firm is committed to answering questions about personal injury law issues and offers free consultations and case evaluations.
McCleery Law, PLLC takes all personal injury and wrongful death cases on a contingent fee basis, meaning clients do not pay or owe a cent unless the firm settles their case or receives a verdict and judgment. Dan McCleery knows the local legal system better than larger firms from larger cities, bringing valuable local expertise to each case. The firm prides itself on developing real connections with clients, putting complex legal issues into language that can be easily understood, and treating clients with respect while ensuring they fully understand the process they’re going through. McCleery Law is centrally headquartered at 522 Vermont Street, Suite 0, Quincy, IL 62301 with a satellite office at 2055 W Iles Avenue, Suite A, Springfield, IL 62704, and can be reached at 217-846-4878. The firm is happy to meet clients at a location of their choice wherever they are most comfortable, accommodating clients by traveling to their homes, meeting remotely, or welcoming them to their Quincy or Springfield offices, serving clients in all counties throughout Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa.
844SeeMike Personal Injury Lawyers (also known as Mike Agruss Law) is a personal injury law firm in Chicago, Illinois with multiple office locations throughout the state. The firm’s main Chicago office is located at 4809 N Ravenswood Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL 60640, and they can be reached at 312-786-4442. Founded by attorney Michael Agruss, the firm operates under the motto “We see you as a person, not just a client” and has been in operation for 11 years. The firm also has offices in Aurora at 31 W Downer Pl, Suite 405, Aurora, IL 60506, Naperville at 535 S Washington St Suite 27, Naperville, IL 60540, Joliet at 310 N Hammes Ave Suite 301C, Joliet, IL 60435, Oak Brook at 1301 W 22nd St Suite 711, Oak Brook, IL 60523, and Springfield at 1209 S 4th St Suite C, Springfield, IL 62703. The firm comprises 15 attorneys and supporting staff, led by CEO and Founder Michael Agruss, Managing Partner Taylor Kosla Unterberg, and attorneys Zara Saiyed, Furqan Mohammed, and Renata Musial, along with paralegals Jackie Barker, Lisa Weimer, Shantall Pineda, Selena Antosh, Danielle Drusbasky, and Bridget Berry.
844SeeMike Personal Injury Lawyers has achieved significant success, having settled over 8,000 cases and recovered more than $16 million dollars for clients. Notable settlements include $5,008,000 for a boating accident case, $2,000,000 for a commercial auto case, $1,000,000 for a trucking case, $500,000 for a collision, $300,000 for a head-on collision, $250,000 for a rear-end car accident, $150,000 for nursing home abuse, and $100,000 for a trucking case. The firm operates on a contingency fee basis of 1/3 (33.33%), which they emphasize never changes throughout the process. They offer 24/7 availability, free consultations, and services in English, Spanish, and Polish. The firm has earned an A BBB rating, over 1,500 outstanding client reviews, and an average rating of 5 stars from 1,442 reviews. Michael Agruss has been named on Super Lawyers for 2019-2024, Elite Lawyer for 2022-2023, America’s Top 100 Attorneys, and holds a Superb (9.6) Avvo Rating. The firm handles various personal injury cases including car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, pedestrian accidents, slip and fall, sexual abuse and assault, medical malpractice, bicycle accidents, brain injuries, burn injuries, catastrophic injuries, dog bites, nursing home abuse, workers compensation, spinal cord injuries, and Uber/Lyft accidents across multiple Illinois cities including Chicago, Aurora, Naperville, Joliet, Springfield, Peoria, Elmhurst, Rockford, Cicero, Champaign, Elgin, Waukegan, and Decatur.
McNamara & Evans is a transportation and public utility law firm located at P.O. Box 5039, 931 South Fourth Street, Springfield, IL 62705-5039, serving clients in Illinois and throughout the United States with phone (217) 528-8476 and fax (217) 528-8480. The firm features attorney Ed McNamara with over 40 years of experience practicing before the Illinois Commerce Commission, and Joe O’Brien who served as an administrative law judge with the Illinois Commerce Commission for over 40 years before joining the practice. Ed McNamara is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education events emphasizing transportation and eminent domain, while Joe O’Brien brings invaluable knowledge representing clients before the Illinois Commerce Commission and courts focusing on public utility and transportation matters.
McNamara & Evans provides professional legal counsel with over 40 years of experience efficiently resolving trucking and transportation matters, public utility law, eminent domain, easement negotiations, estate planning, corporate, and general representation. The firm’s services include incorporation and articles of incorporation, motor carrier operating authority for interstate and intrastate operations including IFTA, Unified Carrier Registration, BOC-3, and IRP, freight loss and damage claims, civil penalty matters before the Illinois Commerce Commission, FMCSA, and USDOT, overweight tickets, motor carrier agreements between carriers, shippers, and brokers, easement negotiations for power lines and pipelines, eminent domain representation, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, probate representation, personal injury and wrongful death claims, and traffic representation. Clients range from one-person operations to large Fortune 500 corporations, with the firm treating each client with utmost attention and respect regardless of size. The Springfield, Illinois firm offers free initial consultations to discuss how their experienced representation can benefit potential clients.
Ackerman Law Office, P.C. is a personal injury, workers’ compensation, and estate law firm located at 2601 S 5th St, Springfield, IL 62703, reachable at 217-789-1977 or toll-free 888-889-1977. Led by James W. Ackerman with over 35 years of case experience, the firm serves Illinois residents including Springfield, Cass County, Virginia, Champaign County, Christian County, Taylorville, Logan County, Macon County, Decatur, Mount Zion, Montgomery County, Hillsboro, and Peoria County. Jim Ackerman has guided other attorneys in successfully managing personal injury and workers’ comp cases and helped thousands of listeners navigate legal complexities through his weekly radio show Let’s Talk Law.
Sheehan & Sheehan, Lawyers, P.C. is a family business law firm located in Springfield, IL at 1215 S. 4th St., Suite A, Springfield, IL 62703 and can be reached at (217) 544-0701 with fax at (217) 544-0750. The firm has over 30 years of family legal tradition with Patrick J. Sheehan and William J. Sheehan having practiced law together for more than three decades before William J. Sheehan retired at the end of 2017. The brothers formerly practiced with their father William P. Sheehan, a founding member who died in 1980, alongside John C. Sheehan, the firm’s other founding member who died in 1967. Currently, the firm continues its family legacy with third generation attorneys Patrick J. Sheehan, III who joined in 2014 and William P. Sheehan who joined in 2017, both sons of Patrick J. Sheehan.
Sheehan & Sheehan, Lawyers, P.C. provides comprehensive legal services including adoption, agricultural law, business and commercial law, estate planning and estate administration, real estate, taxation, traffic and minor criminal offenses, and personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout Springfield, Illinois and surrounding areas. The firm is built around strong family values and serves clients with experienced, highly-rated attorneys who represent client interests with personalized attention. Their practice emphasizes providing accessible legal representation to the community, handling diverse legal matters from routine business transactions and estate planning to complex litigation and personal injury cases, ensuring clients receive knowledgeable guidance through various legal challenges while maintaining the firm’s longstanding reputation for professional service established over multiple generations of legal practice.
Shay & Associates Law Firm, LLC is a personal injury law firm with offices in Decatur, Illinois at 260 E. Wood St. Decatur, IL 62523 (217-425-5900) and Springfield, Illinois at 1030 S. Durkin Dr. Springfield, IL 62704 (217-523-5900). Since 1992, the firm has helped thousands of clients receive fair and full compensation after injuries, with a dedicated and aggressive staff of attorneys and legal professionals supporting clients every step of the way. Led by attorney Tim Shay, who handled a complicated malpractice case with exemplary dedication according to client Carolyn Austin, the firm specializes in personal injury, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, and product liability cases. The firm has achieved significant settlements including $3,000,000 for wrongful death collisions and institutional negligence, $2,800,000 for motor vehicle collisions, $2,755,000 for medical malpractice claims, $1,600,000 for motor vehicle collisions, $1,500,000 for medical malpractice, $1,175,000 for soft tissue motor vehicle accidents, and $1,000,000 for medical malpractice settlements.
Shay & Associates Law Firm, LLC is one of the few Central Illinois law firms that litigates complex medical malpractice claims, holding manufacturers liable for unsafe products in product liability cases. The attorneys are aggressive litigators who fight for their clients in cases ranging from moderate to severe injuries and wrongful death. Clients praise the firm’s dedication, with testimonials noting Tim Shay’s patience, thorough research, appropriate paperwork provision, and fighting for what is right. With offices at 260 E. Wood St. in Decatur and 1030 S. Durkin Dr. in Springfield, the firm serves Central Illinois with the philosophy that when families are affected by serious injuries, help is what they need and help is what they get, providing ownership over cases and aggressive litigation support throughout the legal process.
Wolter, Beeman, Lynch & Dennis, LLP is a personal injury law firm located at 1001 South 6th Street, Springfield, Illinois 62703, reachable at 217-753-4220 or 800-753-3210. The firm specializes in personal injury, workers compensation, medical and professional malpractice, and products liability trials and appeals serving clients in Sangamon County and surrounding areas including Jacksonville, Lincoln, Decatur, and Litchfield. The partners Bruce Beeman, Francis (Frank) Lynch, Brent Beeman, and Suzanne Dennis have over 165 years of combined legal experience and have successfully handled cases before the Trial, Appellate, and Supreme Courts of Illinois.
Partner Brent Beeman concentrates his practice in personal injury and workers compensation, having obtained millions of dollars for clients through representation at Illinois Circuit Court, Appellate Court, and The Illinois Workers Compensation Commission. Partner Frank Lynch brings unique depth as a plaintiffs personal injury and workers compensation attorney with dedication to community issues, while Partner Suzanne Dennis brings almost three decades of legal expertise shaped by her dedication to public service. The firm has received over $250 million in settlements, judgments, and verdicts for clients, handling accident cases of all kinds including car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, bus accidents, slip and fall incidents, and product liability matters. Wolter, Beeman, Lynch & Dennis offers free consultations with office hours Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm, providing aggressive representation with proven results throughout Central Illinois.
Way Law Offices LLC is a law firm serving families and individuals throughout Illinois, located in historic downtown Springfield, Illinois with over 34 years of serving families and individuals. The firm handles adoption including adult adoption, DCFS subsidized foster parent adoption, international re-adoption, private adoption, private agency adoption, same-sex and second parent adoption, stepparent adoption, and surrogacy contracts. Way Law Offices also provides services in civil matters, personal injury, workers’ compensation, estate planning including planning overview, guardianships, power of attorney, and wills, as well as real estate matters.
Way Law Offices LLC has extensive experience in adoption law with various types of adoption services available to meet the needs of different family situations. The estate planning services include comprehensive planning overview, guardianships for those who need legal protection, power of attorney arrangements, and will preparation to ensure clients’ wishes are properly documented and legally enforceable. Way Law Offices serves clients throughout Illinois from their Springfield location, providing personalized legal services for families and individuals who need experienced legal representation across multiple practice areas including adoption, estate planning, personal injury, workers’ compensation, civil matters, and real estate transactions.
Gates Wise Schlosser & Goebel is a criminal defense and civil litigation law firm located at 1231 S 8th St, Springfield, IL 62703, reachable at (217) 522-9010. The firm consists of experienced attorneys Gordon W. Gates (Managing Partner), D. Peter Wise (Partner), Frederick J. Schlosser (Partner), Todd M. Goebel (Partner), Bradley B. Wilson (Associate), James R. Enlow (Associate), and Riley Hamilton (Associate), collectively bringing over 190 years of combined legal experience. The firm specializes in criminal defense, DUI/OMVI offenses, personal injury, business transactions, commercial litigation, employment law, estate planning, real estate, bankruptcy, and various specialized services including work permits, license reinstatements, expungements, and FOID appeals.
The attorneys serve Springfield, Franklin County, and throughout Illinois, handling complex criminal matters including domestic violence, drug trafficking, violent crimes, theft crimes, sex offenses, and weapons charges. The firm also manages civil litigation including personal injury cases, business disputes, and employment law matters. Gates Wise Schlosser & Goebel provides comprehensive legal services to communities including Beardstown, Virginia, Taylorville, Lincoln, Decatur, Petersburg, Jacksonville, Champaign, and surrounding areas. The firm prides itself on creative problem-solving, maintaining open communication with clients, and providing both the personal attention of a small firm and the high-quality legal advocacy expected from larger practices, with attorneys experienced in state and federal appellate courts throughout Illinois.
