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When you come to Pavich Law Group, you can have confidence in the help you need from a Chicago personal injury attorney. Injury accidents of any kind are extremely serious and can bring about lifelong complications and hardships that could have serious ramifications and repercussions. Attorney Robert J. Pavich obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College. Later, he went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar, the Indiana State Bar, and the 4th and 7th Circuit for the United States Court of Appeals. In addition, he has been admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Attorney Pavich has earned his highly-respected reputation, having represented clients like you for over 35 years. He has a membership with the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association of Justice. He focuses the entirety of his attention on litigation, and he is ready to stand beside you and support you at this time. He has dealt with all kinds of cases, from premises liability accidents to car accident injuries. Are you suffering from medical malpractice, construction accident injuries, or catastrophic injuries of some kind? It is of the utmost importance that you take action and obtain the help your case requires today. He was included among Super Lawyers® for both 2012 and 2013, and he has a reputation that speaks for itself. Do not wait any longer to seek out the help you need by contacting Attorney Pavich today and beginning down the road to a bright and optimistic future.

Prior to joining my current firm, I worked at a large law firm in Chicago where I represented clients throughout the United States in large complex litigation matters.  My current practice includes representation of Plaintiffs and Defendants in catasrophic injury cases as well as complex litigation matters involving corporate entities, municipalities and school districts.  I have tried cases in counties throughout Illinois and have represend clients in a wide range of administative proceedings including proceeding before the EEOC, IDHR and DOL. I have the pleasure of working with a team of professionals committed to highest level of skill and integrity in the practicie of law.

My entire legal career has been dedicated to assisting my clients to the best of my ability. I have years of experience representing inured persons in car and truck accident claims, slip and fall claims, product liability, medical negligence, wrongful death, workers compensation and all manner of catastrophic injuries.. I also have years of experience defending individuals and companies sued by injured persons.  My experience as defense counsel allows me to aggressively advocate for my clients.  I know what is necessary to place my client's cases in the best light possible and I dedicate myself to obtaining maximum recovery on behalf of my clients.. The right attorney makes all the difference in the outcome and how you feel about the resolution of your case.  Make sure the attorney you select is knowledgeable, keeps you informed as to the progress of your case and is accessible to answer questions.  These are the things I  pledge to all of my clients.  Let my experience work for you!

Ms. O'Brien graduated with the highest honors from Lewis University in May 2000. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree, double majoring in Criminal / Social Justice and American Studies (History Department).. In 2001, Ms. O'Brien worked for Target Corporation as a human resources manager where she recruited new team members and helped run the Orland Park Target store. Ms. O'Brien then attended DePaul University College of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctor in May 2004. While a law student, she was employed at the National Anti-Vivisection Society as a legal analyst helping maintain . Ms. O'Brien also clerked with a Joliet law firm and helped maintain family, felony, and personal injury files.. Ms. O'Brien was licensed as an attorney with the Supreme Court of Illinois in November 2004 and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in January 2005. After her admittance in 2004, Ms. O'Brien was employed as an associate attorney at a Joliet law firm where she concentrated in family law, but also had litigation experience in criminal defense, personal injury, and administrative hearings. She opened her own law practice in November 2008 and concentrates on family law.. In March 2008, Ms. O'Brien earned a Professional Certification in Divorce Mediation Skills Training from the School of Continuing Studies at Northwestern University. Shortly thereafter, she branched out from the typical family law litigation and became a Fellow of Collaborative Divorce Illinois. More information about collaborative divorce can be found at .. Ms. O'Brien is active in the following organizations: Will County Bar Association; Will County Women’s Bar Association; Illinois State Bar Association; and Rotary Club of Joliet. Ms. O'Brien was the President of the Will County Bar Association for the 2019 to 2020 membership year.. Ms. O'Brien has been named a Top 40 Lawyer Under 40 in family law by the American Society of Legal Advocates for 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2018, Erin Webster O'Brien, P.C. was honored to be a recipient of the Herald News Best of Will County Readers' Choice Award in the lawyer/law firm category in which it was voted as a top three law firm in Will County.

Most people who meet me know me as a husband and father of two daughters.  I'm a "dance dad" and softball coach, who likes to work hard fighting for my clients.  I also love to exercise.  I started going to CrossFit in March of 2016 and have lost over 70 pounds.  I also happen to be a highly reviewed attorney in the area, as well as the recipient of several honors, incuding being named a “Rising Star” attorney by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine, a designation limited to less than 2.5% of lawyers under 40 years of age in the State of Illinois and as an Emerging Lawyer by Leading Lawyers and recently the firm was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best law firms in 2017.. I have spent my career practicing law in courtrooms and Illinois Workers' Compensation settings throughout Illinois, including Chicago, Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Will, Grundy and many more counties.  When I am not busy fighting for the rights of my clients, you can usually find me supporting my daughters at a dance competition or coaching softball.   I love coaching softball as it gives me the opportunity to teach the girls the proper way to play the game as well as pass on my knowledge as a former collegiate baseball player at North Central College, Go Cardinals!  If I am not doing one of the above you can find me working hard at the gym.. I also have a typical attorney story as well, I am a 2008 graduate of the Hamline University School of Law (after attending North Central College for undergraduate work).  Since that time my practice area has been exclusively workers' compensation and personal injury.  I concentrate my practice on representing those who are injured by others.

Michael J. Lichner is a skilled personal injury attorney with more than 10 years of legal experience. Passionate about protecting the legal rights of individuals and families, Attorney Lichner works diligently to help his clients receive financial compensation. Located in Joliet, Illinois, Attorney Lichner operates on a contingency fee basis and provides potential clients with a free consultation.

John Spesia is a lifelong resident of Will County. He graduated from the University of Denver Law School with high academic honors as a member of the Order of St. Ives. Upon graduation, Spesia was selected to serve as a Law Clerk to a Federal District Judge in Chicago, where he had hands-on training in Federal Court procedures and trial matters.. Since joining Spesia & Taylor in 1991, he has focused his practice on negligence cases, including automobile, trucking and motorcycle collisions; medical and dental malpractice; and nursing home abuse, recovering millions of dollars on behalf of victims of negligence. He has tried injury cases in Cook, Will, Grundy, and McDonough Counties, as well as in California. He secured a $4.1 million jury verdict on behalf of the family of a 44 year old woman killed in an automobile collision caused by a county sheriff's deputy.  The verdict was the largest in the history of the six counties that make up the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Illinois.   A few of his other accomplishments include a $4.5 million settlement, a judgment for more than $3.1 million on behalf of the widow of a businessman killed in a trucking collision, and an $800,000 settlement for a 68 year old automobile crash victim. Spesia also recovered over $1.1 million for a motorcycle passenger severely injured in a collision. In addition, he  recovered over $1 million for a 40-year-old victim of medical malpractice and won a $700,000 jury verdict in another medical negligence case.. Spesia has briefed and argued cases in the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth District Appellate Courts and twice argued landmark cases in the Illinois Supreme Court, including a recent case in 2009 that resulted in a recovery of over $900,000. Along with Kent Slater, a retired Justice of the Third District Appellate Court, Spesia has won multiple appeals in the Third District Appellate Court.. Watch this video featuring John Spesia arguing a case in front of the Illinois Supreme Court:. Over the years, Spesia has also been involved in litigation to acquire property using eminent domain authority for multi-billion dollar pipeline projects and has tried pipeline eminent domain cases in circuit courts across Illinois, including in Will, Kankakee, Livingston, McLean and DeWitt Counties. Mr. Spesia has represented numerous pipeline companies, including Enbridge Energy, Alliance Pipeline, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Kinder Morgan, Enterprise Products and Explorer. He is well versed in property rights issues and the prosecution of eminent domain matters.. Along with the Spesia & Taylor litigation team, Spesia recently filed seventy-six pipeline eminent domain cases across Illinois. As a result of an efficient and effective discovery and trial strategy, access for purposes of construction was achieved on all of the pending cases within fourteen months. All of the cases filed across seven counties were resolved by summary judgment or trial within nine and fifteen months from the date they were filed. In the cases resulting in final judgment orders, Spesia and his team limited the judgments to only $1.2 million where landowners and their counsel had demanded more than $59 million in damages. During the same project, Spesia was involved in a landmark appellate case that resulted in the pipeline company acquiring access to construct its pipeline prior to a resolution on just compensation – the first time in the history of Illinois that this has ever been done.. During his career, John has been named one of “40 Under 40” Illinois Attorneys to Watch and elected one of Illinois’ SuperLawyers®. He has received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell American Law Directory, the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards.

In 1985, Mr. Hammel earned his degree in Bachelors of Science from the Marquette University College of Business.  Subsequently, he was employed at the Continental National Bank of Chicago for one year.  During law school, he clerked for the United States Army Judge Advocate Generals Office VII Corp, Munich Germany.  In 1989, he received his Juris Doctor from the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago.  After two years as a Will County Assistant Public Defender, he established Hammel Law Offices, P.C., in Joliet, Illinois.  In 2005, he merged with Brumund & Jacobs, and subsequently worked extensively in the areas of criminal, traffic and DUI offenses.   He is an annual instructor at the Will County Bar Association’s seminar regarding DUI and traffic offenses, and assisted in many prior ISBA seminars. In 2002, he became qualified to administer field sobriety testing in the State of Illinois, and has testified in many Will County Cases regarding the administration of field sobriety testing.  His cases in the area of DUI/Criminal law are:  People v. Madden, 273 114, 652 N.E.2d 480, 3RD  Dist., June 30, 1995;  People v. Allen, 375 810, 873 N.E.2d 30, 3RD Dist., August 07, 2007;  People v. Love, 393 196, 911 N.E.2d 1015, 3rd  Dist., June 03, 2009; People v. Miklos, 393 205, 914 N.E.2d 506, 3rd Dist., July 17, 2009; People v. Garstecki, 234 430, 917 N.E.2d 465, September 24, 2009; People v. Ziobro, 242 34, 949 N.E.2d 631, April 21, 2011; People v. Riffice, 392 961, 911 N.E.2d 1244, 3rd Dist., July 08, 2009;  People v. Coners, 374 425, 871 N.E.2d 257, 3rd Dist., June 26, 2007; People v. Donnelly, 327 1101, 765 N.E.2d 496, 3rd  Dist., February 21, 2002; People v. Kazenko, 972 N.E.2d 815, 3rd  Dist., July 02, 2012;  People v. Santovi, 2014 IL App (3d) 130075, --- N.E.3d ----, 2014 WL 2191364, . 3 Dist.,2014, May 27, 2014.

I am a 28+ year resident of Will County, Illinois.  I am married and have a daughter attending Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  My twin sons both attend Joliet West High School in Joliet, Illinois. I am a member and former President of the Will County Bar Association, and have been the managing partner of McNamara Phelan McSteen, LLC since its inception in 2005.  I am also a member of the Board of Trustees for Joliet Montessori School.. A former high school and college varsity athlete, I now restrict my athletic endeavors to bicycling and watching my kids compete in soccer and track and field.. I have been a trial lawyer since starting to practice in 1992, focusing first in employment law, then in labor law and criminal defense, and, for the last eighteen years, primarily in the area of personal injury.  I have practiced in trial and appellate courts in Missouri and in Illinois, and have argued before the Illinois Supreme Court.  I am also a member of the federal trial bar in the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois.

For over 25 years Jeff Tomczak has been in the trial courtrooms of Will County, Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kankakee and LaSalle counties, as well as Federal District Court, handling the most serious, high profile personal injury and criminal matters. As the Joliet Herald News has said, his “straight forward approach” is all about getting results” for victims as well as working to assure that no others are injured through the same conduct. His work representing victims has resulted in not only significant compensation for his clients who have been injured through the unjust actions of others, he has also worked and succeeded in, for example, recalling 600,000 dangerous cribs nationwide, placing a dangerous nursing home into “Receivership” for the first time in Illinois history, and increasing the winning percentage of the States Attorney’s Office to it’s highest in 20 years. The Illinois Supreme Court has also personally appointed Jeff Tomczak to the Capitol Litigation Review Committee to help review the credentials of lawyers seeking permission to handle Death Penalty cases.

Cosmo J. Tedone was born on December 13, 1966 in Manchester, Connecticut. Prior to forming the law firm, Tedone & Morton, P.C., he was the senior associate with Chuck Bretz and Associates, P.C. for eight years along with experience as an Assistant Will County Public Defender and private practice in the area of insurance defense and general civil litigation. He was involved with several appeals that resulted in three murder convictions being overturned in 2011.. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Tedone's current practice emphasizes in criminal defense (DUI, Suspended Driver Licenses, Drugs, Domestic Battery, Homicide and Appeals), personal injury, and Secretary of State Hearings, representing a wide variety of clientele. He represents clients in litigation matters before Federal and State Courts, arbitration and administrative agencies. Cosmo has many years of experience as a litigator trying over fifty jury trials and hundreds of bench trials and motions.. Mr. Tedone graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology (B.A. 1990) and Thomas Cooley School of Law (J.D. 1999-Cum Laude). He received several awards and accomplishments while in law school including a Certificate of Merit in Torts and Family Law, finalist in the school's moot court competition and member of law review.. He is admitted and qualified to practice in the States of Connecticut and Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar. Mr. Tedone is a member of the Will County Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association and former member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers.

At Carlson Law Group P.C., we provide reliable legal services designed to cater to the individual requirements of each client. Our practice areas cover personal injury and criminal defense. We are focused on upholding your rights and delivering customized support throughout your legal proceedings. Through transparent communication and tactical approaches, we strive diligently to secure favorable results and empower you to move through the legal process with assurance. Allow us to back you with our comprehensive knowledge and experience. Reach out to us online or by phone to arrange a consultation and discover how we can be of service to you.

An injury can devastate your life and the lives of your family members. When you are suffering physical pain from an accident / injury or grieving from the untimely death of a loved one, Leiter Law Offices can assist you. At our comprehensive Joliet injury law firm, we work hard for our clients facing life-changing times. We are committed to focusing on your best interests and helping you find both resolution and justice in your injury claim.. Led by founding lawyer Gregory Leiter, our firm represents individuals and families throughout the southwest suburbs of Chicago in all personal injury, medical malpractice and workers’ compensation claims.

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in Joliet and surrounding areas.

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in Joliet and surrounding areas.