Overview
Craig has been practicing law for more than 25 years and in that time he has served as lead counsel in more than 50 jury trials. As chair of the firm’s retail team, he represents clients facing premises liability, product liability and retail issues. These include incidents resulting in severe injuries and/or death. Furthermore, he defends allegations of false arrest and malicious prosecution. He works with clients at store level to reduce the risk of future liability, and helps train members of the client’s risk team in early evaluation of claims to reduce costs of litigation.
Craig has conducted over two hundred arbitrations and mediations, including full hearings that are binding. He explores all types of alternative dispute resolution methods to reduce the costs and risks for his clients.
Experience
Membership & Involvement
- Member: American Bar Association; Defense Research Institute; Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel
Honors
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ rated
Resources & Insights
Speaking Engagements
Published Works
- 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.
Education
The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1993
University of Michigan, B.A., 1988
Admissions
- Illinois