Illinois Civil Litigation Lawyers

Civil Litigation

400 Flagstone Pass Dr, O\'Fallon, IL 62269, USA

During the past two decades, Todd Mathews has secured numerous multi-million dollar trial verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients, successfully representing plaintiffs nationwide across product liability, personal injury, employment, sexual abuse, class action, mass tort, and whistleblower cases. Todd served as co-lead trial counsel to the Official Committee of Talc Claimants in the Johnson & Johnson bankruptcy of its special purpose subsidiary LTL Management. For more please visit here. His courtroom efforts have not gone unnoticed. Todd is a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, an invitation-only organization composed of premier trial lawyers from each state or region, and is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in America. A partner in Bailey Glasser’s St. Louis, MO and Maryville IL offices, Todd joined the firm in September 2021. Todd serves on the plaintiff’s executive committee of both the Atrium Hernia Mesh Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) in New Hampshire and the Smith and Nephew Hips MDL in Maryland. He also holds leadership committee positions on the Bard Hernia Mesh Coordinated Cases, Mirena PTC MDL, and Taxotere MDL. He serves the Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers as a representative to the American Association of Justice’s board of governors. A regular organizer of and speaker at legal symposiums worldwide, Todd designs events that facilitate leadership roles, reflect organizational structure, and encourage coordinated litigation efforts. His conferences have featured hundreds of U.S. law firms. Todd holds a J.D. from Nova Southeastern University School of Law, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University.

Civil Litigation

1312 Rolling Prairie Ct, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192

Mr. Morel has litigated and won matters at motion to dismiss, summary judgment and class action certification stages involving a full range of commercial and tort matters for clients such as BP, Briggs and Stratton, Brunswick, Dow Chemical Company, HCSC, General Motors, GATX Corporation, PWC, Rohm and Haas, Union Carbide and United Air Lines. He has counseled and represented clients in response to significant industrial disasters including petrochemical plant explosions and releases in Louisiana and Texas, and rail disasters in Viareggio, Italy, Lac-Megantic, Canada, California, North Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. Mr. Morel has also advised clients with respect to internal matters including corporate governance, internal systems, securities and regulatory compliance, risk management, due diligence, and best practices. He has conducted internal investigations involving a number of issues including trade secret theft and harassment.

Civil Litigation

840 Audubon Way #116, Lincolnshire, IL 60069, USA

Wayne B. Giampietro is an attorney admitted to practice by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1966. He received his B.A. degree from Purdue University in 1963, and a J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1966. He has maintained an office in the Chicago area, concentrating on civil trial and appellate cases. In addition to having been involved in well over two hundred fifty trials, he has authored briefs in approximately fifty appeals in the federal system, including cases before the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and over seventy appeals in state courts, including the Supreme Courts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona, as well as various state appellate courts. He currently practices as a sole practitioner.. He has previously been a partner in: Gertz & Giampietro; Ligtenberg, DeJong, Poltrock & Giampietro; Witwer, Poltrock & Giampietro; Stitt Klein Daday, Aretos & Giampietro and Poltrock & Giampietro

Civil Litigation

311 N Aberdeen St, Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Elliot Slosar is a partner at Loevy & Loevy. Elliot worked full-time as the Loevy & Loevy and Exoneration Project in-house investigator while attending DePaul University’s College of Law at night. In law school, Elliot received numerous awards for his outstanding work in trial advocacy, pre-trial civil litigation, and mass media law. Elliot is the Chicago Bar Foundation’s 2009 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Scholar, a prestigious award given annually to an incoming Illinois law student who has shown a deep commitment and future dedication to public interest law. As an attorney, Elliot has concentrated his practice on wrongful convictions and other constitutional issues. Elliot also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Law School, where he co-teaches the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic and represents individuals wrongfully convicted of crimes in state and federal proceedings. To date, Elliot has assisted in exonerating thirteen individuals from wrongful convictions across Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. After a long day of practicing law, Elliot can be found at home with his daughter Sophia. If you are looking for Elliot before dawn, he can be found at his local CrossFit box. Elliot is an avid fan of Borussia Dortmund, the Chicago Cubs, DePaul basketball, and Notre Dame football.

Civil Litigation

416 Ravine Rd, Hinsdale, IL 60521, USA

Michael J. Pasquinelli joined PJM, after compiling 17 years’ experience in complex litigation in both the private and governmental sectors. Prior to joining the firm, Michael represented clients in personal injury, consumer fraud, breach of contract, corporate transactional, corporate general counsel, commercial real estate, and residential real estate matters; and defended a broad portfolio of civil litigation cases from construction general liability to breach of contract and fiduciary claims. In addition to experience in the private sector, Michael served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in both the criminal and civil divisions, where he reached First Chair status; and worked to resolve over one thousand cases over the course of his public career. Notably, Michael successfully briefed and argued the landmark case of People v. Johnnie Wilson, before the Illinois Supreme Court, which set the legal standard for parolee searches in Illinois state and federal courts. See People v. Wilson, 228 Ill. 2d 35 (2008). Michael has also successfully appealed civil forfeiture matters, which helped define the procedural burdens and standards under the Illinois Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act. People v. $111,900 United States Currency, 366 Ill. App. 3d 21 (Ill. App. 1st 2006) Michael graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in Economics, and later graduated cum laude from The University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (formerly The John Marshall Law School), where he was a Member of the John Marshall Law Review. In addition to his legal experience, Michael has experience in the construction industry, having worked as a carpenter, assistant superintendent, superintendent, project manager, construction manager, and home builder in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. In addition, Michael started his own Development Company, having provided development and consulting services in the Chicagoland region, and worked in the mortgage banking industry as well. Mr. Pasquinelli’s hands on experience in business and development industry brings a common-sense, streamlined approach to providing residential/commercial contract and transactional services, and with providing tort and contract litigation services as well. This same hands-on practical experience has aided in the assessment and preparation of various planned unit developments, and development agreements for Peterson Johnson and Murray’s existing municipal clients.