Michael has secured over $300 Million Dollars in jury verdicts and settlements for his clients and was a member of the GWC team that established the firm’s previous high settlement record of $13,750,000.00 Million Dollars in a wrongful death case and more recently, $20,000,000.00 Million Dollars on behalf of a severly injured union laborer. Some of his other significant jury verdicts and settlements include:
- $10.5 million for a Teamster who sustained a traumatic, below the knee amputation after being run over by a road grinding machine (settlement)
- $10 million for a pipefitter who sustained a traumatic brain injury when he fell through a false ceiling (settlement)
- $9.3 million for the family of a factory worker killed in an automobile accident (jury verdict)
- $8 million for a family of a union tuck pointer who was fatally injured in an unwitnessed lift tip over accident (settlement)
- $6.4 million for a family of a union ironworker who was killed during the erection of a steel bridge (settlement)
- $6.01 million for a union electrician who sustained severe shoulder injuries when electrocuted by a defective lighting fixture (settlement)
- $5.3 million for a union laborer who sustained a traumatic brain injury and shoulder fracture when he was struck by a crane boom (settlement)
- $4.1 million for a union electrician who sustained a knee injury when a switch gear fell on his leg (jury verdict)
- $3.5 million for family of a concrete labor killed when he fell from a foundation wall (binding arbitration)
- $2.85 million for a union painter who fell from scissor’s lift injuring his foot (largest personal injury verdict in Jo Daviess County)
Michael has been recognized by his peers for his accomplishments as a trial lawyer. He has received the Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter’s prestigious award for “Trial Lawyer Excellence”; Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s “Leading Attorney in Illinois” by virtue of the number of multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements he has obtained for his clients; Illinois Leading Lawyer Network’s designation as a “Leading Lawyer” (only 5% of the State’s lawyers in any practice area are so designated); and the designation as a “Super Lawyer” by The Super Lawyers Organization.
Michael is married and has three adult children.
