Admitted
1978, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
University of Illinois, B.A., 1975
Memberships
Chicago (Member, Committees: Civil Practice; Hospital & Health Care; Medico-Legal Relations; Sports Law; Trial Techniques; Tort Litigation; Circuit Court; Entertainment; Judicial Evaluation; Chair, Subcommittee to Investigate Use of Mail, Fax and Teleconferencing in Courts; Member, Committee to study the Legal Needs Assessment of the State of Illinois), DuPage County, Kane County, Lake County, Northwest Suburban, Illinois State (Member, Board of Governors, 1989-1991, 1993-1999, 2000—; Secretary, 1995; Member: Tort Law Section Council and Special Committee on Professionalism, 1985—; Task Force on Professionalism, First Joint Committee of the Board of Governors, 1987—; Member, ISBA Assembly, 1989-1991, 1991—; Committee to study the Lawyer Referral Service; Board Subcommittees on Insurance Programs; Committee to Review Mock Trial Programs, 1989-1990; Amicus Curiae Study Committee; Member, Assembly: Budget and Audit, Legislation, Personnel, Professionalism (Standing Committee), Scope and Correlation Committees; Special Committee to Review the Client's Security Fund; Liaison to the Attorneys Registration and Disciplinary Commission Committee; Committee on the Mentally Disabled, Delivery of Legal Services, Law Education, Admission and Competence Committee; Lawyers With Disabilities; Standing Committee on Legal Technology and Professionalism Committees; Commercial and Bankruptcy Law, Law Office Economics and Tort Law Section Councils; Chair of the Standing Committee on Community Involvement, 1994-1996; Education Law Section Council), and American Bar Associations; Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Committees: Amicus Curiae; Rules; Publications; Membership; Medical Negligence; Legislative Law; Civil Procedures); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American College of Legal Medicine (Associate in Law); Decalogue Society of Lawyers (Member, Board of Directors); Bohemian Lawyers' Association of Chicago; American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants; Association of Womens' Health, Obstetric and Neona
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Justinian Society. Author: Illinois Civil Trial Practice, 1979—; Causes of Action, 2002 both published by Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Research Coordinator, Goldstein Trial Technique, 1978—, Callaghan and Company. Member, Board of Directors, The Center for Disability and Elder Law. Fellow, Illinois Bar Foundation.