Joseph P. Basile
Joseph P. Basile
Joseph P. Basile, Chicago, concentrates his practice in workers’ compensation and civil litigation. He is a chair-qualified arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program, has been a faculty member at annual IICLE^® workers’ compensation seminars, and is the author of the monthly workers’ compensation column for IICLE^®’s FLASHPOINTS. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations. Mr. Basile received his B.S. from St. Louis University and his J.D. with distinction from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, where he was a member of The John Marshall Law Review.
John P. Bergin
John P. Bergin
John P. Bergin is the founder of Bergin Law, P.C., in Chicago, concentrating his practice in workers’ compensation and civil litigation. Mr. Bergin received his B.A. and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago.
James F. Black
James F. Black
James F. Black is a Partner at Black & Jones Attorneys at Law in Rockford, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation. He is a member of the American and Illinois State Bar Associations. Mr. Black received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law.
James R. Clune
James R. Clune
James R. Clune is a Shareholder of Garofalo, Schreiber, Storm & Grant, Chartered, in Chicago, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation trials and appeals. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers’ Association (1989 – 1991). He is a member of the Illinois State and Florida Bar Associations and is a member of the Trial Bar of the U.S. District for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Clune received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from the Stetson University College of Law.
Michael F. Doerries
Michael F. Doerries
Michael F. Doerries is a Shareholder of Wiedner & McAuliffe in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in workers’ compensation law. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association. Mr. Doerries received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Brad A. Elward
Brad A. Elward
Brad A. Elward is currently a law clerk with the Appellate Court, Fourth District. He is a former Partner with Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., in Peoria, where he concentrated his appellate work on handling appeals in workers’ compensation cases before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, circuit court, Appellate Court, Workers’ Compensation Commission Division, and Illinois Supreme Court. He has authored more than 325 appellate briefs and argued more than 225 appellate court cases, resulting in more than 100 published decisions, and numerous unpublished appellate court orders. Mr. Elward is a Past President of the Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association (2013 – 2014) and Past Chair of the Peoria County Bar Association CLE Committee. He has been named as an Illinois Super Lawyer for appellate practice from 2008 through 2020 and an Illinois Leading Lawyer from 2014 – 2020. He worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois College of Law teaching advanced appellate practice. Mr. Elward received his B.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he was the Survey Editor of the Southern Illinois University Law Journal and a teaching assistant for legal writing and legal research. The opinions and comments expressed herein and within Mr. Elward's chapters are his and are not those of the Appellate Court.
Martha A. Garcia
Martha A. Garcia
Martha A. Garcia is a Partner with Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein, Johnson & Bareck in Chicago, where she concentrates her practice in workers’ compensation law. She is a past administrator with the Illinois Nurses Association, where she represented nurses in labor relations and collective bargaining. Ms. Garcia has lectured and published articles on the Americans with Disabilities Act for the Practising Law Institute and has lectured on labor law and workers’ compensation topics. She is also an adjunct professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Past Chair of both the Chicago Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Committee and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois Employment Law Committee. She is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers Workers’ Compensation Committee, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association, and the American, Illinois State, and Chicago Bar Associations. Ms. Garcia received her nursing diploma from Wesley Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago, her B.S. from Northwestern University, and her J.D. from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Steven F. Hanagan
Steven F. Hanagan
Steven F. Hanagan is a Shareholder at Hanagan & McGovern PC in Mount Vernon, where he concentrates his practice in workers’ compensation and personal injury. He is a Past President of the Jefferson County Bar Association, a past member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Illinois American Inn of Court, and a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Hanagan received his B.S. from Southern Illinois University and his J.D. cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in the Study of Legal Ethics.
Richard K. Johnson
Richard K. Johnson
Richard K. Johnson is a Partner at Katz, Friedman, Eisenstein, Johnson, Bareck & Bertuca in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in workers’ compensation. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers, and the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association. Mr. Johnson received his B.S. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Tracy L. Jones
Tracy L. Jones
Tracy L. Jones is a Partner at Black & Jones Attorneys at Law in Rockford, where she concentrates in workers’ compensation, social security disability, and veterans’ disability compensation. She is a board member of the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association and a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the National Organization of Veterans Advocates. Ms. Jones received her B.A. from Northern Illinois University and her J.D. from University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
Patrick M. Keefe
Patrick M. Keefe
Patrick M. Keefe is a Partner at Keefe & DePauli, P.C., in Fairview Heights, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation. He has been an author and lecturer for IICLE®, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, and the Workers’ Compensation Claims Association. He is a member of the St. Clair County, Illinois State, and Missouri State Bar Associations. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, completed coursework towards an M.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and received his J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law.
Ann-Louise Kleper
Ann-Louise Kleper
Ann-Louise Kleper is an attorney at Dworkin & Maciariello in Chicago, where she concentrates her practice in workers’ compensation claims. She is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations and the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association. Ms. Kleper received her B.A. magna cum laude from Brandeis University and her J.D. cum laude from Boston University School of Law.
Paul A. Krauter
Paul A. Krauter
Paul A. Krauter is a Member of Evans & Dixon, LLC, in Chicago, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation. He is a member of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association. Mr. Krauter attended Purdue University and received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
Peter J. Lorenz
Peter J. Lorenz
Peter J. Lorenz is a Partner at Lorenz & Bergin, P.C., in Chicago, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation defense. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations and the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association. Mr. Lorenz received his B.S. from Loyola University and his J.D. from Creighton University School of Law and was a member of the Moot Court Board and National Political Science Honor Society.
Pamela J. Murtaugh
Pamela J. Murtaugh
Pamela J. Murtaugh, Columbia, Illinois, has concentrated on occupational disease brief writing for over two decades. She is the coauthor of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission Training Manual — A Layman’s Guide to Black Lung and has written for IICLE® since the mid-1990s. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Ms. Murtaugh received her B.A. from Southern Illinois University and her J.D. summa cum laude from Southern Illinois University School of Law.
Bradford J. Peterson
Bradford J. Peterson
Bradford J. Peterson is a Shareholder of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., in Champaign, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation and personal injury defense. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, and the National Association of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals. Mr. Peterson received his B.A. with honors from Illinois State University and his J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law.
Jon C. Walker
Jon C. Walker
Jon C. Walker is an associate at Woodruff Johnson & Evans Law Offices in Chicago, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation, social security disability, and personal injury. He is a member of the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Walker received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.

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Workers' Compensation Practice (Illinois) (ARCHIVED 2015 EDITION)

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Joseph P. Basile

John P. Bergin

James F. Black

James R. Clune

Michael F. Doerries

Brad A. Elward

Martha A. Garcia

Steven F. Hanagan

Richard K. Johnson

Tracy L. Jones

Patrick M. Keefe

Ann-Louise Kleper

Paul A. Krauter

Peter J. Lorenz

Pamela J. Murtaugh

Bradford J. Peterson

Jon C. Walker

Workers' Compensation Practice (Illinois) (ARCHIVED 2015 EDITION)