Admitted
1955, Illinois; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois
Law School
University of Michigan, J.D., 1955
Law School Graduation Year
1955
College
Northwestern University, B.S., 1952
Memberships
Peoria County, Illinois State and American Bar Associations; Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Managers, 1984—; Executive Committee 1999-2000); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Vice Chairman, Tort Section, 1980; Member, Board of Governors, 1987-1996); Roscoe Pound Institute; Illinois Bar Foundation (Founding Fellow); Civil Justice Foundation (Founding Sponsor and President, 1998-2000). Certified Diplomate: American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys; American Board of Forensic Examiners (Law Division); Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1980-2000.
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. A Winner of the Illinois State Bar Lincoln Award for Legal Writing in 1961, 1963 and 1965. Author: Traumatic Arthritis—An Occupational Disease, Illinois Bar Journal, February 1961; Illinois Scaffold Act in Perspective, Illinois Bar Journal, March 1966; Illinois Structural Work Act, University of Illinois Law Forum, Spring 1967; Structural Work Liability, Trial & Tort Trends, 1969; Medical Malpractice: Anesthesia-Halothane Toxic Hepatitis, American Trial Lawyers Association Convention Proceedings Transcript, Anderson, 1971; Preservation of Physicians' Records in Original Form, Examination of Medical Experts, Volume II, Matthew Bender, 1973; Medical Malpractice—Radical Mastoidectomy Ear Surgery, Trial and Tort Trends, Coiner, 1973; General Editor and Contributor: Medical Evidence, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1997 and 2000, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education; Medical Malpractice—A Primer for Attorneys, Medical Trial Technique Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, Callaghan & Co., Fall 1977; Medical Malpractice Litigation—Triumph & Tribulation, Personal Injury Annual, Matthew Bender Co., 1977; ATLA Bar News, January 1977; Medical-Legal Relationships: A Physician's Patient is the Same as an Attorney's Client, Legal Aspects of Medical Practice, March 1978; Chapter Contributor: Plaintiff Medical Malpractice, 1981, 1984, 1985 and 1986, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education; Chapter Contributor: Forensic Sciences, Wecht, Matthew Bender Co., 1981; Medical Expert Witnesses—The Cornerstone of Malpractice Cases, TRIAL, June 1982; Video Cassette Contributor: Trying Medical Malpractice Cases, Matthew Bender Co., 1982; Malpractice: Final Argument in Rural Setting, Personal Injury Annual, Matthew Bender Co., 1982; Contributor, Art of Advocacy Series: Cross-Examination of Medical Experts, Houts, Matthew Bender Co., 1982; Author: Securing and Using Medical Evidence in Personal Injury and Health Care Cases, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988; Medical Evidence: Ac