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Rep. Lou Lang Stands Up for Unions in Impassioned Speech

State Representative and Deputy Majority Leader of the Illinois State House Lou Lang (D-Skokie) commanded the full attention of the Illinois House of Representatives on May 14. The Republican governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, is in the midst of preparing a new right-to-work proposal that would allow Illinois employees to work in union jobs without paying union dues. During a four-minute speech, Rep. Lang went toe-to-toe with Republican legislators seeking to disempower unions and eliminate labor protections. Last Thursday, Rep....

GWC Injury Lawyers Sues City of Chicago for $17 Million

Attorneys at GWC Injury Lawyers have filed a lawsuit after one man died and one woman was seriously injured after experiencing accidents on dangerous Chicago roads. In November of 2014, Carlo Kintanar was riding a motorcycle when his bike went over a dangerous and deep pothole. He died from the injuries that he sustained in that accident. The area where Kintanar experienced his fatal accident was not closed off to motorists. In fact, the city had closed of parts of...

Two Fatalities in Five-Vehicle Crash on I-74 near Galesburg

Two men suffered fatal injuries on Wednesday, May 13, during a five-vehicle pile-up on westbound I-74 just five miles north of Galesburg...

Driverless Cars and Your Legal Rights

They are all over the news. They have already hit the road. The big tech giants from Apple to Google to Uber...

Illinois Supreme Court Strikes Down Pension Law

Lawmakers in Illinois have been trying to fix the states public pension system for many years, and their most recent effort was...

Hip Implant Cases Head To Trial

Zimmer Holdings Inc. was once the top seller of hip implants worldwide, at one time, accounting for 70 percent of the market...

Corey Goldberg Featured In Leading Lawyers

The law offices of GWC Injury Lawyers proudly announce that our very own Corey B. Goldberg, son of founding partner Michael B. Goldberg, was recently featured in the Leading Lawyers publication. Having been immersed in the industry from an early age and after seeing his father - renown injury attorney Michael Goldberg - in action at Illinois largest personal injury law firm, Corey decided to pursue a career in law and graduated from DePaul University College of Law in 2006. Shortly...

GWC – A Family Law Firm

GWC Injury Lawyers is proud to announce that Deanna Cairo-Arthur and Louis Anthony Cairo, who are the 2 oldest children of managing...

Case or No Case – April 2015 Edition

Each month, our very own Illinois personal injury attorney, Lou Cairo, joins Melissa Forman and Jeanne Sparrow on WCIU's popular "Case or No Case" segment to discuss a variety of common situations that may - or may not - result in the injury of an individual and, consequently, if that person has sufficient grounds to file a damages lawsuit. In today's April 2015 installment, Lou presents some circumstances that include a worker who is commuting to work on a bicycle,...