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 Finding a Chicago attorney? or law firm by area of law. Contact a Chicago Illinois (IL) lawyer by phone, fax, or email here is one 
J. Wesley Mitchell
Attorney J. Wesley Mitchell was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1990 and is a founding partner of the Chicago law firm of Mitchell, Hoffman & Wolf, LLC. Mr. Mitchell received his B.S. from Indiana State University and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He concentrates his practice in plaintiff's personal injury matters including medical malpractice, automobile accidents and injuries, wrongful death and construction accidents. He has written chapters for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education's handbooks "Proving and Disproving Damages in Personal Injury Cases" and "Illinois Civil Discovery Practice" and its former handbook "Illinois Structural Work Act Practice." He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. 
email: jwmitchell@mitchellhoffmanwolf.com


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Marcus Tullius Cicero
106-43BC
A lawyer widely respected for his philosophical writing, understanding of Greek philosophy and the structure that his analyses gave to Roman law. He viewed justice as the highest human virtue, and his work is a cornucopia of percipient observations about law. He was murdered as an opponent of Octavian.

Domitius Ulpianus
AD160-228
An outstandingly thoughtful jurist and prolific writer whose influence upon the theory and practice of law has been extensive. He forged the systematisation of rules, and the exposition of legal principles, in a way that has since shaped the law of more than 60 countries. When the Emperor Justinian published the unprecedented Digest of Roman Law in AD533, one third of it was extracts from Ulpianus’ work.


Sir Thomas More
1477-1535
A barrister of Lincoln’s Inn in the 16th century, and later Lord Chancellor. A very successful commercial lawyer, and legal writer. Perhaps best known for writing Utopia (Greek for nowhere) a marvellous book depicting a society that rules itself by reason, and in which there are no lawyers!

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
The son of impoverished pioneers, and largely self-educated, he qualified as a lawyer and went on to become the 16th president of the United States. In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in areas under the control of the southern Confederate states. On November 19, 1863 he gave what became known as the Gettysburg Address. It is one of the most quoted speeches in human history. It invokes in an inspiring way the principle of human equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence, opening with the words: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. It ends with the assertion that in a new America “. . . government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

Louis Dembitz Brandeis
1856-1941
Deeply concerned with issues of social justice, and the originator of what became a ubiquitous form of legal argument, the “Brandeis brief”. In a US Supreme Court case in 1907 about a state statute, Brandeis, who later became a Supreme Court judge, innovated a form of legislative interpretation by introducing social study reports to assist the court in construing the law.

Clarence Darrow
1857-1938
Celebrated American defence lawyer and formidable orator, committed to defending freedom of expression and opposing the death penalty. He defended war protesters charged with having violated sedition laws, and in 1925 defended John Scopes, a high school teacher who had broken state law by presenting the Darwinian theory of evolution. In 1926 he won an acquittal for a black family, that of Dr Ossian Sweet, who had resisted a savage racist mob trying to expel it from a white district in Detroit.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1869-1948
The world-famous advocate of non-violent social reform qualified as a barrister and joined Inner Temple, London. His practice flowered in South Africa and became more socially angled after he was asked to take off his turban in court. He refused. He was later imprisoned in South Africa and India for his activities. A superb exponent of the arts of negotiation and mediation.

William Henry Thompson
1885-1947
A solicitor from Preston, Lancashire, who qualified in 1908, was imprisoned as a conscientious objector, and became the country’s leading expert on working people’s compensation. A supporter of the suffragettes and co-founder of the National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty), he established a law firm in 1921 to act for workers. Today, Thompsons is the largest personal injury and employment rights firm in the UK with 50,000 cases being run at any time.

Lord Denning of Whitchurch
1899-1999
A man of monumental influence on the development of English law, both in its substance and style. His time at Oxford as a mathematical scholar was followed by legal study, and then a highly successful career as a barrister. During his forty years as a judge he reformed many areas of English law including the law of contract, of unmarried partners, and of judicial review. Not, though, an unblemished record of greatness as his views on racial issues were somewhat contentious.

Nelson Mandela
1918 -
A Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former President of South Africa who has helped to shape modern history. He was the only black student in his law faculty. He set up his own practice in 1952 and acted for clients who were victims of apartheid. He insisted on using the “whites only” entrance to courts, and campaigned relentlessly for an end to apartheid. He successfully resisted an attempt by the Transvaal Law Society to have him struck off the rolls of attorneys.

Helena Kennedy, QC
1950 -
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, ennobled in 1997, was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1972 and took silk in 1991. Her juridical prowess has been combined with a breathtaking range of book writing, and legal campaigning on behalf of women, children, crime victims and other groups. The benefits of her technical legal accomplishments ramify into many areas through work as varied as being chairwoman of the British Council, and chairwoman of the Human Genetics Commission. Professor Gary Slapper is Director of the Centre for Law at The Open University

Levin & Perconti

History
 Levin & Perconti was established in 1992 by original founding partners Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti. Since then, Levin & Perconti has grown to twelve attorneys. According to their website , Levin & Perconti has emerged as a pioneer in the litigation of nursing home abuse and neglect by achieving record
verdicts and settlements for its clients, handling cases that have gained national attention, and by promoting better nursing home practices and stricter regulations for the care of the elderly and disabled. Since 2001, Levin & Perconti has offices in the historic Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building.

Notable cases
Sued Woodstock Residence Nursing Home on behalf of one patient who died as the possible result of a morphine overdose. The Illinois Department of Public Health found six mysterious deaths at the home and two employess face criminal charges. $3 million awarded on behalf of woman who choked to death at a nursing home when her trachea tube got clogged. $7.62 million verdict against an HMO doctor who ignored a mother's complaints of postpartum bleeding, resulting in her bleeding to death. $10 million settlement on behalf of a 5-year-old boy who, while playing in an open fire hydrant, was struck by a City of Chicago Fire Department truck and ultimately lost his leg and half of his pelvis. $14 million verdict on behalf of a patient who's diagnosis of lung cancer was delayed after doctors ignored abnormal chest x-ray results.


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according to Wikipedia Law is:

Law is a system of rules and guidelines, usually enforced through a set of institutions. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on derivatives markets. Property law defines rights and
obligations related to the transfer and title of personal (often referred to as chattel) and real property. Trust law applies to assets held for investment and financial security, while tort law allows claims for compensation if a person's rights or property are harmed. If the harm is criminalised in a statute, criminal law offers means by which the state can prosecute the perpetrator. Constitutional law provides a framework for the creation of law, the protection of human rights and the election of political representatives. Administrative law is used to review the decisions of government agencies, while international law governs affairs between Sovereign States in activities ranging from trade to environmental regulation or military action. Writing in 350 BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle declared, "The rule of law is better than the rule of any individual." Legal systems elaborate rights and responsibilities in a variety of ways. A general distinction can be made between civil law jurisdictions, which codify their laws, and common law systems, where judge made law is not consolidated. In some countries, religion informs the law. Law provides a rich source of scholarly inquiry, into legal history, philosophy, economic analysis or sociology. Law also raises important and complex issues concerning equality, fairness and justice. "In its majestic equality", said the author Anatole France in 1894, "the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." In a typical democracy, the central institutions for interpreting and creating law are the three main branches of government, namely an impartial judiciary, a democratic legislature, and an accountable executive. To implement and enforce the law and provide services to the public, a government's bureaucracy, the military and police are vital. While all these organs of the state are creatures created and bound by law, an independent legal profession and a vibrant civil society inform and support their progress.

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According to wikipedia a lawyer is:

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as a attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law."Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political and social authority, and deliver justice. Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who retain (i.e., hire) lawyers to perform legal services. The role of the lawyer varies significantly across legal jurisdictions, and so it can be treated here in only the most general terms. More information is available in country-specific articles

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