Western Springs Lawyers

My name is Joseph M. Dooley, attorney at law. I have been practicing law for over the last 20 years and I have represented a multitude of clients who have suffered a variety of injuries. I have represented victims of auto and other transportation accidents, victims of medical malpractice, and victims of defective products.

In my time representing victims of various accidents caused by third party negligence or recklessness, I have noticed one thing which has remained pretty constant from client to client. When a client first arrives in my office or speaks to me on the phone, they are usually...

As a trial attorney with 40 years of experience, John Ellsworth, founder of Ellsworth Law Group, has dedicated his firm to serving the public good by preventing the IRS from running over people, sometimes by good old fashioned accountability in court. Mr. Ellsworth knows from experience that imposing tax rules against IRS agents improves society by making it difficult for the IRS to violate the rules that are meant to protect us. Those Tax Court case results constitute consequences for unreasonable and sometimes flagrant conduct. John graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and went on to earn a Juris...

Markus May is a client focused and service oriented business attorney with knowledge in a broad range of industries. He enjoys helping clients complete business transactions including the purchase and sale of businesses. Mr. May previously worked as a business manager and is very familiar with business drivers and financial concepts and relates well to business owners and managers dealing with financial matters. Mr. May often represents clients desiring to start a new business on choice of entity decisions, forming entities and maintaining company compliance with regulatory requirements. He advises clients on how to avoid disputes and litigation and...

Sinan Sari, Esq. is the founding attorney and CEO of Yellow Law Group, the international practice he launched in 2021. Under his leadership the firm has grown from a solo practice into a multi-state, multi-country operation that now serves clients across the nation, from bases in Texas, California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Istanbul. A graduate of Marmara University Faculty of Law (LL.B., 2014) and Loyola University Chicago School of Law (LL.M., 2020), Sinan combines rigorous academic training with nearly a decade of hands-on experience in U.S. immigration and cross-border business matters. He is licensed to practice in Texas and New York...

Attorney Jae Francis Lee is a principal attorney at Francis Law Center with four immigration law offices in Naperville, Chicago, Schaumburg, and Madison. He taught U.S. History for 22 years at the University of Wisconsin since he completed his Ph.D. in History from New York University in 2000. He has written several textbook and journal articles and lectured on legal topics relating to U.S. Immigration History. He also created IT, real estate, and catering companies and successfully managed them. His experience and background as a researcher, business owner, and professor have well prepared him to help professors, researchers, business owners,...

Vincent Paul Petrosino is an attorney at Serpico, Petrosino, DiPiero & O’Shea, Ltd. He is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Kevin Rang concentrates on outsourcing and information technology transactions. He represents clients in transactions involving the (1) outsourcing of business process functions, including facilities management for laboratory, warehouse and corporate office space, manufacturing facility maintenance, manufacturing production maintenance, food services, environmental services, employee benefits, revenue cycle management and accounts payable; and (2) the outsourcing of technology functions, including network management, infrastructure, help desk, call center, telecommunications, application hosting and application development and maintenance. He also advises clients on issues associated with software licenses, the purchase and sale of hardware, consulting agreements, alliance agreements, software development agreements, and various technology-related service...

Mr. Sullivan is a defense attorney with extensive experience litigating product liability, toxic tort, asbestos, complex litigation, mass tort, transportation, insurance and general liability claims. Representative matters currently include defending a catastrophic injury case involving a double amputation from a recycling baler, a wrongful death case resulting from maintenance on a street cleaning truck and a breach of warranty action involving fires on two tractor trailers. Joe has been involved in the defense of a wide variety of toxic tort cases for 20 years, including, single plaintiff and multi-plaintiff claims arising from alleged exposure to asbestos, mold, benzene, PCBs...

Ms. Salata's practice is focused in U.S. Immigration law as well as Illinois Workers' Compensation law. She works extensively in family immigration matters, removal proceedings, non-immigrant visas and naturalization and citizenship law. As a trial lawyer she has more than seven years of experience successfully litigating Workers’ Compensation cases before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and Circuit Courts. Ms.Salata graduated from Loyola University and secured her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and Chicago Bar Association.

Ryan June is a Partner with Castañeda + Heidelman LLP, a boutique firm with a national presence serving nonprofits and companies. Ryan’s practice focuses on trademark, copyright, dispute resolution/litigation, and investigations. Before joining C+H, Ryan was Assistant General Counsel for a global higher education and media nonprofit. There, Ryan’s experience included oversight of and counseling on intellectual property licensing, expansion, and enforcement for the organization's IP assets, including a NYT bestselling book and internationally recognized brand that has sold more than 20 million copies and become a household name. Ryan started his legal career in the general commercial litigation and...

Representation of parties with disputes under the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance and other statewide legislation affecting rentals. This includes injuries at the property, lease terminations, damage deposit returns, etc. Representation also of petitioners before the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission for work accidents.

I am a native of Chicago. I majored in History at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, and went to I.U. Bloomington Law School. I have practiced immigration law since 1991 in Chicago and Milwaukee.

When contacting a lawyer about a tax issue, you want to know you are talking to a person who is both knowledgeable and caring. Kelly Hanley is that lawyer. She loves her current role where clients get to speak to her first and throughout their case. That means no big staff or paralegal screening the personal side of the work. Prior to finding her perfect fit at The Tax Defenders, Kelly worked for some of the most respected organizations in the country. In her years as a practicing attorney, Kelly has worked for Aon, Met Life, KPMG and DLA Piper. With...

William P. Schmitz, Jr. ("Bill") is a results-driven attorney dedicated to obtaining justice for victims of workplace accidents, motor vehicle collisions, and various other personal injuries. Not only is Bill a tenacious and highly skilled advocate, he deeply cares for his clients' interests, and recognizes the detrimental effect(s) accidental injuries and incidents involving negligent third parties can levy on injured persons and their families. Bill is recognized for his commitment to service; securing financial compensation on behalf of hundreds of injured persons; favorable results for his clients at trial, arbitration, and through settlement negotiations across the State of Illinois; and his...

Attorney Weissburg is the author of the only guide for injured workers facing the Illinois Workers’ Compensation system, How to Win a Workers' Compensation Claim in Illinois, available at https://amzn.to/2xNtUBZ Mark Weissburg is an experienced Attorney who fights for injured and disabled people. Skilled in Workers' Compensation law with a background in Social Security Disability law, Attorney Weissburg is a strong legal professional with a J.D. from John Marshall Law School. Attorney Weissburg also teaches legal writing as an Adjunct Professor of Law at UIC John Marshall. Attorney Weissburg fights for injured people and gets them the benefits they deserve. Thousands...

Environmental and OSHA law services to individuals and businesses, large and small.

Barry Levin has been fighting for clients as a Worker’s Compensation and Personal Injury Trial Attorney for over 30 years and he has been with Sostrin and Sostrin since 1987. His practice focuses in representing clients in personal injury and employees in workers’ compensation cases before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, Illinois Circuit, Illinois Appellate and Illinois Supreme Courts. Barry is licensed in the Federal Court. Prior to representing the rights of injured people, Barry worked for the Cook County Sheriff’s office for four years and as a Public Defender in Cook County for six years. He...

I have almost two decades of litigation expertise in Illinois law, across both state and federal jurisdictions. I am experienced in every phase of trial advocacy and I am a member of the Federal Trial Bar. In addition to my trial work, I preside as Arbitration Chair for both Cook and Lake Counties, as well as for various private organizations. I also serve as a certified mediator for the Chicago Bar Association.

John is the founding partner of Galarnyk & Associates. John was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin in a large family of a general practice physician and a loving stay-at-home mother. John watched his father manage and operate his general medical practice with a holistic approach with a confidential, nurturing and positive bedside manner.

After attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, he embarked on his legal career practicing in the litigation department of small and mid-sized law firms. In 2001, John formed Galarnyk & Associates, Ltd., modeling his...

Nicole’s experience involves cases having injuries such as bedsores, fractures from falls, malnutrition, dehydration, infection, aspiration, and sexual abuse. She takes great joy in forming relationships with the residents and their families, hearing their stories and concerns, and advocating for their rights. Nicole Morrison gives her entire legal practice to the representation of injured nursing home residents and their families. After joining Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates in 2008, as a law clerk, Nicole established a passion for representing nursing home residents and their families. She veiws each resident not just as a client, but as someone’s beloved relative or friend. This passion...

David graduated from Kansas State University where he was not only a member of the school’s first national-qualifying Trial Team but also the head of the university’s judicial system. As the head of the judicial system, David represented victims of sexual harassment, theft, and property damage and advocated for their rights before student and faculty judicial review boards. After college, David moved to Chicago, where he went to the Chicago-Kent College of Law and earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude. While at Chicago-Kent, David competed nationally on the school’s Moot Court team. A finalist or semi-finalist in all of his prior...