Cook County Personal Injury Lawyers

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...

Tyler Berberich dedicates his entire legal practice to representing and defending the rights of injured workers to the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. Tyler was raised in southern Michigan, then attended Michigan State University. After college, he moved to Illinois to go to law school at Chicago-Kent College of Law. After graduation, Tyler started his legal career practicing workers’ compensation law in Springfield, Illinois before moving back to Chicago to join Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, Ltd.

Cole focuses his practice in representing individuals in the area of personal injury and wrongful death matters including medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, automotive and trucking negligence, construction negligence, products liability, premises liability and other professional malpractice. As a trial lawyer, Cole is proud to represent victims of injustice. Cole has successfully recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients through trial, mediation, arbitration, and negotiation.

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...

Elliot R. Schiff is the founding partner of Schiff Gorman LLC. Following an outstanding legal education, he was selected for a judicial clerkship with Justice Francis Lorenz, Illinois Appellate Court. Since then, he has been in private practice with an emphasis on representing clients who have been damaged by legal malpractice of attorneys who have breached their fiduciary duties or been negligent. He is the author of “Legal Malpractice” published by the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education and has also authored each of the Supplements to that publication thru 2012.

Elliot’s commitment to excellence is reflected in the recognition the...

Attorneys like Lyndsay Markley are proving that practicing law can be a profession dedicated to helping others while succeeding in the field.” – CBS Chicago That is one of the best compliments I have ever received. People are important to me and so I have chosen to dedicate my professional life to fighting for their rights against those who would harm them. For over a decade, I have successfully represented injured persons and the families of the victims of wrongful death. I have sought and received justice for my clients by securing millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts...

Tom Reuland is the founding attorney of Reuland Law, LLC. The Law Office of Tom Reuland represents people in Illinois and throughout the nation who have been badly injured by car crashes, truck crashes, bicycle crashes, pedestrian accidents, nursing home neglect, and related matters. Mr. Reuland has secured seven-figure results for families of people wronged by the negligence of others. His practice is dedicated to fighting insurance companies who are looking to undervalue the suffering and damages that injury victims endure. Mr. Reuland is available for a free and confidential consultation by contacting him through TomReulandLaw.com. With a primary...

Mr. Gerstein concentrates his law practice in the areas of insurance law, workers' compensation, negligence, business disputes and criminal defense. He has over 40 years of trial experience in the above areas of law. He has represented people and companies involved in complex business disputes; people and companies whose insurance claims were denied; people injured on the job or otherwise; and people accused of crimes. He has tried hundreds of cases to either juries, judges or arbitrators. As a result of the complexity of the law today, Mr. Gerstein believes every client matter requires thorough thought, investigation, research...

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.

Bar Admissions: State Bar of Illinois. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar). Memberships: Chicago Bar Association. Illinois State Bar Association. Education: Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Juris Doctor. University of Louisville, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Other: Mr. Hamilton is also an Arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County.