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Lew R.C. Bricker
Lew R.C. Bricker
Lew R. C. Bricker is a Partner at SmithAmundsen LLC, in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on commercial transportation and products liability. He is Chair of USLAW Network, is a BTI Client All-Star, and is Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated. Mr. Bricker received his B.A. cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Sandra J. Cukierski
Sandra J. Cukierski
Sandra J. Cukierski is a Partner at SmithAmundsen LLC in Chicago, where she focuses her practice on commercial transportation, products liability, and premises liability. She is a member of the Defense Research Institute. She was selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2013 – 2017 and selected by the Leading Lawyers Network as an Emerging Lawyer in personal injury defense and transportation defense law. Ms. Cukierski received her B.S. from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Thomas A. Demetrio
Thomas A. Demetrio
Thomas A. Demetrio is a Founding Partner at Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., in Chicago, where he focuses on the areas of personal injury and wrongful death. He is Past President of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and he is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Inner Circle of Advocates. Mr. Demetrio received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a Past Chair of the Board of Advisers.
M. John Hefner, Jr.
M. John Hefner, Jr.
M. John Hefner, Jr., is a Sole Practitioner in Mattoon, where he focuses on professional negligence, products liability, and wrongful death. He has been Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rated for over 20 years. He is the author of New Power of the Chapter IX Bankruptcy Court to Authorize the Issuance of Certificates of Indebtedness: Congressional Relief or Congressional Overreaching?, 51 A.Bankr.L.J. 1 – 18 (1977). Mr. Hefner received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and his J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law.
Jeffrey S. Jordan
Jeffrey S. Jordan
Jeffrey S. Jordanis a Partner at O’Connor & Nakos, Ltd., in Chicago, where he focuses on plaintiffs’ personal injury law. He is a member of the Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association for Justice. Mr. Jordan received his B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Daniel M. Kotin
Daniel M. Kotin
Daniel M. Kotin is a Partner at Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC, in Chicago, where he focuses on trial law. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the Society of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Kotin earned his B.A. cum laude from Boston College and his J.D. cum laude from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.
Jeffrey J. Kroll
Jeffrey J. Kroll
Jeffrey J. Kroll is a Senior Trial Attorney at Kaveny + Kroll, LLC, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in personal injury and wrongful death. Mr. Kroll has been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers list since 2005. Additionally, Mr. Kroll has been named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Illinois by the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) for ten consecutive years. He is on the Dean’s Council at DePaul University College of Law (2018 – present). He received his B.A. from DePaul University and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Kevin R. Malloy
Kevin R. Malloy
Kevin R. Malloy is a Partner at Forde & O’Meara LLP in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in commercial litigation. He is a member of the Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association and the Illinois State Bar Association, as well as a member of the Chicago Bar Association’s Judicial Evaluation Committee. Mr. Malloy received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law.
Robert P. Marcus
Robert P. Marcus
Robert P. Marcus is a Partner at Kujawski Marcus, LLC, in O’Fallon, where he focuses on the Federal Employers’ Liability Act and personal injury law. He currently serves as Special Counsel to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. He is Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rated. He was named an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2016 and 2017. Mr. Marcus received his B.S. from James Madison University and his J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he participated in moot court and was a published member of the Law Journal.
Daniel V. O’Connor
Daniel V. O’Connor
Daniel V. O’Connoris a Partner at O’Connor & Nakos, Ltd., in Chicago, where he focuses on plaintiffs’ personal injury law. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and the American and Chicago Bar Associations. He has been a lecturer for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association in areas of pretrial litigation and the selection and presentation of experts in products liability cases. Mr. O’Connor received his B.S. from Loyola University Chicago and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Susan J. Schwartz
Susan J. Schwartz
Susan J. Schwartz is a Partner at Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., in Chicago, where she is a trial lawyer focusing on medical negligence cases on behalf of patients and their families. She serves on the Advisory Board for Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Services and previously served as an officer and on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Bar Foundation and the Board of Governors for Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has served on the Board of Managers for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Ms. Schwartz received her B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Charles J. Swartwout
Charles J. Swartwout
Charles J. Swartwout is a Founding Partner at Boyle Brasher LLC in Belleville, where he concentrates his practice primarily in the defense of physicians, hospitals, nurses, railroads, and transportation companies. He is a member of the Illinois State, Missouri, and St. Clair County Bar Associations, the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, the Counsel on Litigation Management, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, and the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. Mr. Swartwout received his B.S. from Purdue University and his J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Lew R.C. Bricker

Sandra J. Cukierski

Thomas A. Demetrio

M. John Hefner, Jr.

Jeffrey S. Jordan

Daniel M. Kotin

Jeffrey J. Kroll

Kevin R. Malloy

Robert P. Marcus

Daniel V. O’Connor

Susan J. Schwartz

Charles J. Swartwout

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