Westmont 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...

I have over 40 years of experience advising clients on matters involving customs law and international trade regulation. My practice encompasses tariff classification and valuation, NAFTA ,the USMCA, country of origin marking, dumping and countervailing duty, penalty enforcement defense, import/customs trade compliance, and litigation in the U.S. Court of International Trade. The firm also advises on export regulation, licensing and compliance.

Daliah Saper is a member of the Illinois Bar and both the General Bar and Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has handled many high profile cases (including one she argued before the Illinois Supreme Court) and is regularly interviewed on national tv, radio, and news publications including ABC News, Fox News, CNBC, , The Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio, and NPR. She has received the honor of being named to the Super Lawyers list for fourteen consecutive years, is repeatedly recognized as a leading Media and Entertainment lawyer by Chambers and Partners,...

Stevens & Associates is a law firm maintaining licensure in New York, Illinois, Washington D.C., as well as England and Wales. We strive to deliver dependable, timely, professional and better than cost-effective service. With over 20 years of experience, we engage in commercial transactions, entity structuring and governance, fiscal matters, tax planning, business litigation, and best practices analyses. Please contact the firm or refer to our website for a plenary description of our scope of practice. We seek to join sound professional advice with good, practical business sense. Attorneys of the firm welcome the continuing opportunity to...

Neal Wishnick has been a Worker’s Compensation and Personal Injury Trial Attorney for over 40 years and a lawyer with Sostrin and Sostrin since 1980. His practice concentrates in representing employees in workers’ compensation cases before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, Illinois Circuit, Illinois Appellate and Illinois Supreme Courts. Prior to representing the rights of injured workers, Neal worked as a managing in-house counsel for Hartford Insurance in Illinois. He has spoken on workers’ compensation and disability topics for the Chicago Bar Association, the Worker’s Compensation Lawyers Association. Neal is a member of the Workers Compensation Lawyer Association. Mr....

Ellis Sostrin has been protecting the rights of injured workers as a Trial Attorney for over 40 years. He received his undergraduate training at the University of Illinois, Champaign and attained his Juris Doctorate degree at DePaul University, College of Law, Chicago in 1972 as one of the youngest lawyers in the State of Illinois. Ellis then began his legal career as an Assistant Attorney General between the years 1972 to 1975. Thereafter, he joined Sostrin and Sostrin, one of Illinois’ oldest and most respected personal injury and worker’s compensation firms. He has served as the...

Tom Seymour joined the practice of Sostrin and Sostrin in 2014. Prior to becoming an associate, Tom worked in Finance for over a decade for Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley and most recently Mayer Brown LLP managing Financial Reporting and Budgeting. Tom has been awarded the prestigious Cali Award for Future Excellence in Worker’s Compensation. His practice concentrates in representing clients in personal injury, social security disability and employees in workers’ compensation cases before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, Illinois Circuit, Illinois Appellate and Social Security Administration. Tom earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Drake University in...

Herb Blum has concentrated in Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability in excess of 36 years and has been associated with Sostrin & Sostrin since 1979. He consistently represents injured workers before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, Illinois Circuit, Illinois Appellate and Illinois Supreme Courts in addition to representing disabled people in claims for Social Security Disability before the Social Security Administration. Prior to representing the injured and disabled, Herb worked as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois Labor Division and as a managing in house counsel for Wausau and Nationwide Insurance Companies. He has...

Any Chicago-area resident who is suspected of a serious crime should have an experienced and aggressive criminal defense attorney working for them. A criminal conviction can carry life-changing consequences, including enormous fines, hours of community service, a permanent blot on your record, and even years in prison. Because of the seriousness of a conviction, you will want a lawyer who is very familiar with criminal law and is dedicated to an aggressive and clever defense for clients. Neil Adams, a criminal defense attorney in Joliet, IL, is just such an attorney. He has been practicing law in Illinois for 20...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Occurrences with family and friends have cultivated Gabe’s deep-seated devotion to helping the injured. The son of a doctor and occupational therapist, Gabe received his parents’ work ethic, moral compass, and sense of duty towards the sick and injured. He began putting those traits to good use at UW-Madison. After graduating from college in 2014, Gabe landed a job as the Director of Business Development at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates. He didn’t yet realize his capacity for law, but during this role Gabe witnessed the vast effect that a personal injury attorney can have on injured clients. Gabe continued to work full...

“I BELIEVE THAT CLIENTS ARE BEST SERVED BY THE PREVENTION OF LEGAL PROBLEMS THROUGH CAREFUL AND THOROUGH ADVICE GIVEN PRIOR TO THEIR ENTERING INTO TRANSACTIONS AND BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS.”

I have always had a deep care for children, which initially led me to become an elementary school teacher and a special education teacher. With over 35 years of experience in family law, I have assisted individuals through challenging times including divorce, custody battles, parenting time disputes, decision-making conflicts, relocation issues, child support matters, domestic violence cases, and guardianship issues. I am committed to continually deepening and broadening my knowledge and skills in the family law field. I am adaptable to your needs and can assist you at any stage of the process. Allow me to be your support during...

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...

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.

Ms. Chavez counsels and represents employees in a variety of employment litigation matters including discrimination (based on age, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion and sexual orientation), sexual harassment, Family Medical Leave Act and retaliation claims. Ms. Chavez has experience representing employees in front of administrative agencies (the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Department of Labor) and state and federal courts. The services offered by Ms. Chavez range from the review of a severance package, to representation at the administrative level--Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to legal representation in state and federal court.

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.