Areas of Practice

·         Appellate Advocacy

·         Civil Rights Litigation

·         Contract Litigation

·         Correctional Health Care Law

·         Employment Law

·         Health Care Law

·         Insurance Coverage Issues

·         Legal Malpractice

·         Medical Malpractice Defense

·         Negligence & Personal Injury

Education

• Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa (B.A. 1982, Cum Laude)

• IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D. 1985, Highest Honors)            

Admissions, Recognitions, Activities & Memberships

• Federal Southern District of Indiana-2005

• Federal Bar Central District of Illinois-2000

• Federal Bar Northern District of Indiana -1993

• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals-1989

• Federal Trial Bar Northern District of Illinois-1989

• Federal Bar Northern District of Illinois-1986

• State Bar of Illinois Bar-1985

• Chicago-Kent Moot Court Team; Chicago-Kent International Law Moot Court Team-1984-1985

·      Editor: Chicago Kent Law Review, 1984-1985

·      Judicial Clerkship:   Honorable David Linn, Illinois Appellate Court

·      Academy of Correctional Health Professionals

·        American Bar Association

·        National Commission on Correctional Healthcare

Articles, Publications & Speaker

• "Risk Management...An Update to Protect You" presented at the Lincoln Dental Society Meeting
  May, 2009.
  
  
• "When does an Insured Have a Right to Independent Counsel?" , March, 2009.
  
  
• “Must Med-Mal Plaintiffs file Section 2-622 Certificates of Merit in Federal Court?”
  Illinois State Bar Journal, February, 2003

• “Inmate Co-Pay Finds Support in the Courts” CorrectCare Summer, 2002

• “Why Do Inmates Get Free Attorneys?”, CorrectCare, Fall, 2000

• “What is Deliberate Indifference?”, CorrectCare, Spring, 2000

• “Medical Negligence and Deliberate Indifference”, CorrectCare, Summer, 2000

• “Charting Your Defense:  Medical Records and Lawsuits”, CorrectCare, Fall, 1999

• “Turning the Coroner on Petrillo”, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (1999)

• “Illinois Public Labor Relations Laws:  A Commentary and Analysis”, 60 Kent Law
  Review 883 (1984)

• “You Be The Judge:  A Mock Trial Involving an Inmate’s Claim” 
  National Commission on Correctional Health Care (October, 2006)

• “Civil Rights Mock Trial Presentation”, National Commission on Correctional Health Care
  (Spring, 2006)

• “Ideal Medical Defendant,” National Commission on Correctional Health Care (Spring 2005)

• “Charting Your Defense: Medical Records and Lawsuits,” National Commission on
  Correctional Health Care (Spring, 2004)

• “Understanding The Importance Of The Administrative Process,” National Commission on
  Correctional Health Care (Fall, 2004)

• Civil Rights Mock Trial Presentation, National Commission on Correctional Health Care
  (Summer, 2004)

• “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” National Commission on Correctional Health Care (2003)

•   “Using Medical Records for Pretrial Discovery,” ICCLE (Fall, 2003)

• “You Be The Judge”, Dentist’s Advantage (2003)

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care “I Just Got Sued, Now What Do
  I Do?” (Spring, 2003)

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care: “Legal Issues Regarding Off-Site Referrals”
  and “Litigation And Emergency Response In The Correctional Environment,” (September, 2002)

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care: “I Want It And I Want It Now!  The Difference Between Elective, Preventative, and Necessary Medical Care” and “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar! The Female Inmate” (March, 2001)

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care: “Knowing The Impact and Implications of Settling A Civil Lawsuit,” (Fall 2000)

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care  “Charting Your Defense: Medical Records and Lawsuits” and “Employment Discrimination and Harassment Issues in the Correctional Facility,”
  (March, 2000)

Verdicts

Summary Judgments