Top best Personal Injury Lawyers in Swansea near me | 6 available

My name is Attorney Christopher Carreiro. My primary practice areas are Personal Injury, Employment law, Consumer Protection, Debt Settlement and Bankruptcy. I am passionate about representing individuals and businesses, who have been injured or have become victims of unfair or deceptive business practices. I bring a wealth of experience and dedication to public betterment to my law firm, fighting for the rights of individuals and businesses.

David Cates is a founding principal attorney at The Cates Law Firm, LLC and a Swansea trial lawyer dedicating much of his practice on complex personal injury cases throughout southern Illinois. David has years of experience working serious injury accident cases including mass torts and class action lawsuits, as well as discrimination and harassment cases.  As a Belleville personal injury attorney at The Cates Law Firm, David has received some of the highest honors from his hard work and dedication in the legal field - including being recognized as a Super Lawyer's Rising Star and National Trial Lawyer Top 100 Trial Lawyer. Over the years, David has litigated significant results for individuals - achieving settlements and awards well over the one million dollar mark.

Bill Gavin was born in East St. Louis, Illinois in 1955, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from St. Louis University in 1977. He went on to complete his Doctor of Jurisprudence and graduated cum laude from the St. Louis University School of Law in 1980, where he was a member of the honorary scholastic society, Order of the Woolsack, and a staff member of the St. Louis University Law Review.He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1980, the Missouri in 1982 and the Tennessee bar. He is licensed to practice law in Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.Bill Gavin has extensive experience in the litigation of occupational disease claims of railroad employees, and has successfully litigated personal injury claims resulting from exposure to asbestos, diesel fumes, environmental tobacco smoke, creosote, benzene, welding fumes, solvents, cumulative trauma disorders, and noise.As a result of his experience in railroad occupational disease claims, Bill Gavin has represented railroad workers in litigation in the courts of Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Colorado, Arkansas, Kentucky, California, Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This litigation has included traumatic injury claims and occupational disease claims.Personal injury attorney Bill Gavin is currently a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, American Association for Justice (AAJ), Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and The Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Clair County Bar Association from 1984 to 1985.

Attorney Lauren Cates is an associate at Cates Mahoney, LLC where she practices civil litigation in a broad range of areas, working diligently to effectively represent her clients. She exercises great compassion in her representation of injured individuals and employs her business education to generate creative solutions to complex issues.