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Practice areas

• General criminal defense
• Business litigation (including fraud and fiduciary breach)
• Workers' compensation
• White collar crime
• DUI
• Drug crimes
• Crimes of violence
• Theft
• Sex crimes
• Cyber crime
• Traffic offenses
• Expungement/sealing and post-judgment/post-conviction cases
• Trials

Admitted

• Illinois
  
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• University of Chicago Law School, J.D
• Northwestern University, B.S.
• Stanford University (2 years)

Associations and memberships

• Chicago (Participant, In-court and criminal law specialty panels; Defense of Prisoners Committee; Chair, 1993 -1994), Illinois State (Member, Sections on: Criminal Justice; Civil Practice and Procedure) and American (Member, Criminal Law Practice Section) Bar Associations
• Astor Terrace Condominium Association (Member, Board of Directors; Former long-term president)
• University Club of Chicago

Employment

• Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois (Criminal Division) (3 years) assigned to misdemeanor and felony courtrooms
• City Prosecutor of Evanston,lIlinois (1 year)
• Associate and Partner, Mayer Brown & Platt (now Mayer, Brown LLP), Chicago, Illinois, 1962 - 1990
• Sole Practitioner, 1990 to present

Biographical details
Listed in: Who's Who in America; Who's Who in American Law; The American Bar, 2007 - 2008
(www.americanbar.com). 2008 Ed.; Awarded the highest rating (AV) from Martindale-Hubbell. Author: "The
Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel: Does Miranda Suffice?."  Vol. 2, CBA Record, p. 13, 1988; "Vocational
Rehabilitation Needs Legislative Rehabilitation," Vol. 1, CBA Record, p. 28,1987; Profiled, Illinois Police and
Sheriffs News, Fall 1995 ed., p. 4.

Representative cases

• New York Life v. Saikin, 45 III App 3d 1019, 360 NE2d 413 (1st Dist.1977), unauthorized policy loans
• Weit v. Continental Illinois Bank, 467 F Supp 197, 478 F Supp 285,641 F2d 457 (7th Clr 1981), cert den'd, 455 US 988, reh den'd, 456 US 938 (1982), MasterCard antitrust class action
• Sheet Metal Antitrust Litigation, involving defense of criminal and civil cases In state and federal courts, with defendants charged with price-fixing and bid-rigging on public sheet metal projects
• Peterson v. Sealed Air Corp., 902 F2d 1232 (7th Cir 1990), wrongful death (chemical exposure)
• Defense of multiple count fraud/fiduciary breach action (off-track betting case) involving 3 1/2 week trial before Chancery Division (Cook County), including Illinois Appellate Court and Illinois Supreme Court appeals (2000)