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Garofalo, Schreiber, Hart & Storm, Chartered | | 55 West Wacker Drive | | 10th Floor | | Chicago, Illinois 60601 |
| Telephone: 312-670-2000 | | Fax: 312-419-1336 | | Toll Free: 877-419-2300 | | www.gshslaw.com |
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| Insurance Defense, Workers' Compensation, Employer Liability, Trial Practice, Appellate Practice, State and Federal Courts |
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| Insurance Company Clients | | ACE USA | Addison Insurance Company | | AIG Claim Services, Inc. | Allstate Insurance Company | | American Contractors Insurance Co RRG | American Country Insurance Company | | American Family Insurance Company | Amerisure Insurance Company | | AmTrust Group | Argonaut Great Central Insurance Company | | Broadspire | Cambridge Integrated Services | | Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc. | Chesterfield Services, Inc. | | Church Mutual Insurance Company | CMI Octagon, Inc. | | CompManagement, Inc./Sedgwick James | Crawford & Company | | Creative Risk Solutions, Inc. | Crum & Forster Insurance Group | | Frank Gates Acclaim, Inc. | Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. | | GatesMcDonald | Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company | | Hastings Mutual Insurance Company | Illinois Compensation Trust/Hospital Association | | Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund | ITT Specialty Risk Services, Inc. | | Liberty Mutual Insurance Company | Meridian Mutual Insurance Company | | Milwaukee Insurance Company/Unitrin | North American Specialty Insurance Company | | Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation | NovaPro Risk Solutions | | Risk Enterprise Management, Ltd. | Royal & SunAlliance USA | | SeaBright Insurance Company | Sentry Claims Services | | Tar Heel Insurance Management Services | Travelers | | United Fire & Casualty Company | Universal Underwriters Group | | Utica National Insurance Group | Vanliner Insurance Company | | Ward North America, Inc. | West Bend Mutual Insurance Company | | Williams Insurance Group | Zurich American Insurance Company | |
| Non-Insurance Company Clients | | Accenture, LLP | Acres Group, Inc. | | Advocate Health Centers | Alcoa Engineered Products | | A.M. Castle & Co. | American Airlines, Inc. | | American Bottling Company | AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc. | | Anning Johnson Company | Arch Construction | | Army and Air Force Exchange Service | Arnold Logistics | | Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co. | Bay Shipbuilding Co. | | Bunge Edible Oil | Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group | | Central Steel & Wire Company | Chicago Bridge & Iron Company | | Chicago Sun-Times, Inc. | C.J. Vitner Company | | Clark Construction Group, Inc. | CNF Transportation, Inc. | | Consolidated Freightway Corporation | Construction Program Group | | Conway Central Express | Corn Products International, Inc. | | Covenant Management | CPC Logistics, Inc. | | Denk & Roche Builders, Inc. | Department of Navy | | Dick Corporation | Dominick's | | G.E. Riddiford Company | GES Exposition Services, Inc. | | Graycor, Inc. | Hyatt Corporation | | International Decorators, Inc. | James McHugh Construction Company | | Jernberg Industries, Inc. | Kenny Construction Company | | Knaack Manufacturing | Lakeside Building Maintenance | | Lear Corporation | Lutheran Social Services/P.A. Peterson | | The Manitowoc Company, Inc. | Marianjoy Rehabilitation/Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc. | | Marinette Marine Corporation | Marmon/Keystone Corporation | | McNulty Brothers Construction | Meccon Industries, Inc. | | Medline Industries, Inc. | Meyer Steel Drum, Inc. | | Naperville School District #203 | National Beverage Corporation | | New Breed, Inc. | Northwestern University | | Novak Construction Company | Ozinga Brothers, Inc. | | Panera Bread | Patten Tractor & Equipment Co. | | PeopleLink Staffing Solutions | Pepper Construction Company | | Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. | Pickus Construction | | Power Maintenance & Constructors, LLC | Prairie Material Sales | | Rail Terminal Services | Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | | Rockford Memorial Hospital | Rockford Products | | RUSH Oak Park Hospital | Safway Steel Products, Inc. | | Sears, Roebuck and Co. | Select Staffing | | Septran, Inc. | Signal Administration, Inc. | | Sisters of St. Francis/St. James Hospital | Snap-on Tools Corporation | | Southwest Airlines Company | Spherion Corporation | | Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. | SUPERVALU/Jewel | | Textron, Inc. | Thatcher Engineering | | Turano Baking Company | Turtle Wax, Inc. | | United Technologies Corporation | Vienna Beef, Inc. | | VITAS Hospice Services, L.L.C. | Vitran Express, Inc. | | Wabtec Corporation | Waste Management, Inc. | | West Irving Dye Corporation | Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company | | Wolseley N.A. | Wright Tree Service | | W.W. Grainger, Inc. | |
| JOSEPH A. GAROFALO — 1952 — North Park College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1974; DePaul University College of Law, J.D., 1977 — Admitted to Bar, 1977, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit — Member Illinois State, Chicago and Will County Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association; Justinian Society of Lawyers — Chicago Bar Association Lecturer: "Trial of a Workers' Compensation Case," Spring, 1984; "Case Developments in Workers' Compensation," Spring, 1988; Arbitrator, Circuit Court of Cook County, 1990; Leading Lawyers Network-The Top Lawyers, 2004-2010; Illinois Super Lawyers, 2006-2010 — Reported Cases: Johnson Outboards v. Industrial Commission, 77Ill.2d 67, 394 N.E.2d 1176, 31 Ill. Dec. 799 (1979); Auto-Trol Technology Corporation v. Industrial Commission, 189 Ill.App.3d 1065, 545 N.E.2d 939 (1989) — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: jgarofalo@gshslaw.com | |
| SCOTT T. SCHREIBER — 1956 — Valparaiso University, B.A., 1978; J.D., 1981 — Managing Editor, Valparaiso University Law Review (1980-1981) — Admitted to Bar, 1981, Illinois — Member Winnebago County Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Author: "The Unsupervised Child: Parental Negligence or Necessity," Valparaiso University Law Review, Vol. 15, P. 167, Fall, 1980 — Leading Lawyers Network-The Top Lawyers, 2004-2011; Illinois Super Lawyers, 2007-2011 — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: sschreiber@gshslaw.com | |
| BENNETT F. HART — 1954 — The University of Iowa, B.B.A., 1976; J.D., 1979 — Admitted to Bar, 1979, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois — Member Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: bhart@gshslaw.com | |
| DEREK A. STORM — 1959 — Eastern Illinois University, B.A. (with honors), 1981; DePaul University, J.D., 1984; University of London, England, LL.M. (with merit), 1989 — Admitted to Bar, 1984, Illinois; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit — Member Chicago Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association (Board of Directors; Past President) — Leading Lawyers Network-The Top Lawyers, 2004-2010 — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: dstorm@gshslaw.com | |
| PHILIP G. BRINCKERHOFF — 1958 — Marquette University, A.B., 1980; Saint Louis University, J.D., 1985 — Admitted to Bar, 1985, Illinois — Member Chicago Bar Association; Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel — Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense; Employer Liability; Trial Practice; Construction Law - E-Mail: pbrinckerhoff@gshslaw.com | |
| STEVEN R. SCARLATI, JR. — 1963 — Eastern Illinois University, B.A., 1986; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1990 — Admitted to Bar, 1990, Illinois — Member Will County and Chicago Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: sscarlati@gshslaw.com | |
| JAMES R. CLUNE — 1953 — University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1975; Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 1978 — Admitted to Bar, 1978, Florida; 1980, Illinois; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1981, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar — Member The Illinois and Florida Bar; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Author: "Illinois Continuing Legal Education-Workers Compensation Chapter 2"; "Employer-Employee Relationship" - E-Mail: jclune@gshslaw.com | |
| ANDREW L. RANE — 1967 — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1990; Northern Illinois University, J.D. (cum laude), 1994 — American Jurisprudence Award in Administrative Law — Admitted to Bar, 1994, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois — Member Illinois State Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association (Board of Directors, 2008-2010) — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: arane@gshslaw.com | |
| TODD E. WEGMAN — 1969 — Illinois State University, B.S., 1991; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1996 — Admitted to Bar, 1996, Illinois — Member American Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Assocation — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: twegman@gshslaw.com | |
| MARC J. CAIRO — 1970 — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1992; DePaul University College of Law, J.D., 1995 — Admitted to Bar, 1995, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois — Member Illinois State and Chicago (Chair, Workers' Compensation Section, 2004-2005); Legislative Liasion, Workers' Compensation Section, 2003-2005) Bar Associations; Illinois Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association, Illinois Chamber of Commerce (Workers' Compensation Committee). — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Employment Law; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: mcairo@gshslaw.com | |
| DANIEL L. GRANT — 1975 — Illinois State University, B.S., 1998; DePaul University, J.D., 2002 — Admitted to Bar, 2002, Illinois — Member American and Chicago Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice; Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation - E-Mail: dgrant@gshslaw.com | |
| CRAIG M. SCARPELLI — 1970 — University of Wisconsin, B.A. (cum laude), 1992; DePaul University, J.D., 1996 — Admitted to Bar, 1996, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois — Member Illinois State Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: cscarpelli@gshslaw.com | |
| KEVIN REID — 1968 — Boston College, B.A., 1991; DePaul University, J.D., 1996 — Admitted to Bar, 1996, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois — Member Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association - E-Mail: kreid@gshslaw.com | |
| WILLIAM R. STANCZAK — 1971 — Michigan State University, B.A., 1995; DePaul University College of Law, J.D., 1998 — Admitted to Bar, 1998, Illinois; 1999, Florida — Member The Florida State Bar; Lake County Bar Association; Illinois Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Illinois Rising Stars; Illinois Super Lawyers, 2008-2010 — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: wstanczak@gshslaw.com | |
| DAVID P. HANSON — 1974 — Indiana University, B.S., 1997; DePaul University, J.D., 2000 — Admitted to Bar, 2001, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar — Member American Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Languages: Japanese — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: dhanson@gshslaw.com | |
| CHRISTOPHER P. CARR — 1970 — University of Michigan, B.A., 1992; DePaul University, J.D., 1998 — Admitted to Bar, 1998, Illinois; 1999, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois — Member Illinois State Bar Association; Illinois Defense Trial Counsel — Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense; Employer Liability; Construction Law; Workers' Compensation; Trial Practice - E-Mail: ccarr@gshslaw.com | |
| RONAK T. JOSHI — 1977 — University of Toronto, B.A. (with honors), 2001; The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 2004 — John Marshall Law School Law Review — Admitted to Bar, 2004, Illinois — Member American Bar Association; Abraham Lincoln Marouitz Inn of Court — Associate Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School — Civil Mediator — Languages: French, Hindi, Gujarati — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Civil Litigation - E-Mail: rjoshi@gshslaw.com | |
| ANITA S. OAK — 1978 — The Ohio State University, B.A., 2000; The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 2003 — Admitted to Bar, 2003, Illinois — Member American and Chicago Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: aoak@gshslaw.com | |
| MATTHEW J. NOVAK — 1978 — Buena Vista University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 2001; The University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2005 — Admitted to Bar, 2005, Illinois — Member Illinois State Bar Association; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice - E-Mail: mnovak@gshslaw.com | |
| ROBERT E. LUEDKE — 1956 — Monmouth College, B.A., 1978; Drake University, J.D./M.B.A., 1982 — Admitted to Bar, 1983, Illinois — Member Winnebago County and Chicago Bar Associations; Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association — Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating BV Distinguished. — Reported Cases: Tinley Park Hotel and Convention Center v. Industrial Commission, 826 N.E.2d 1043 (1st Dist., 2005); Mitchell v. Atwood, 624 N.E.2d 878 (2nd Dist., 1993) — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Trial Practice | |
| JASON L. CUTLER — 1983 — University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., 2008 — Admitted to Bar, 2008, Illinois; Wisconsin — Member Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations, State Bar of Wisconsin — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense - E-Mail: jcutler@gshslaw.com | |
| RALPH L. BERKE — Wheaton College, B.A. (with high honors), 1971; Northwestern University, J.D., 1974 — Admitted to Bar, 1974, Illinois; 1981, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1989, U.S. Supreme Court; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces — Ret. Lt. Col., U.S. Army Reserve — Practice Areas: Workers' Compensation; Insurance Defense; Litigation; Estate Planning | |
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