Overview
Chuck’s clients appreciate his ability to assess a case in its totality and advocate on their behalf. He provides the highest service and attention to his clients to achieve the best results. His experience includes trying multiple jury trials yielding great successes for clients across several industries, and winning motions for dismissal with many more.
As a member of the firm’s General Liability Service Group, Chuck represents clients in the construction, government entities and insurance industries. He assists clients with matters relating to catastrophic events, premises liability, negligence, breach of contract, and professional malpractice.
Chuck previously worked for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office for 8 years. He has tried more than 50 criminal felony cases to verdict in Cook County, including 13 felony jury trials. As a former prosecutor, Chuck understands the importance of conducting in-depth investigations and mastering the facts of each case. He brings his investigative skills to the commercial litigation world to help clients shed light on the truth within their case. Because defenses cases are won with documents, Chuck’s investigative experience is invaluable.
Chuck has been an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law since 2012, where he teaches courses on trial advocacy, evidence, and legal ethics.
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- Happy Public Domain Day!
Happy Public Domain Day!Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys. We either mourn the passing of works into the public domain after decades of keeping them safe and warm or hail the expiration of long-held copyrights in anticipation of new, insightful, adaptive, and creative uses of these works and characters.
- The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin
The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for IvermectinRead Edna McLain’s recent article, “The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin” in IDC Quarterly!
- Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect
Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In EffectKeep up to date with both the federal TCPA requirements and several state-level statutes!
- Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared Unconstitutional
Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared UnconstitutionalOn May 27, 2022, Judge Marcia Maras in the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a memorandum, holding Illinois’s recently enacted prejudgment interest statute unconstitutional, and holding that the legislation violated both the right of trial by jury and the prohibition against special legislation.
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Education
Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 2010
University of Illinois, B.A., 2007, with distinction
Admissions
- Illinois