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Title: Principal
Location: Smurfit-Stone Building, 150 North Michigan Avenue 60601 Chicago, Illinois 60601 (Cook Co.)
Organization: Allen, Kenneth J., & Associates
Telephone: 312-236-6292
Fax: 219-477-5181
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| Practice Areas |
Plaintiffs Personal Injury(100%); Catastrophic Injury; Wrongful Death; Third Party Wrongful Death; Brain Injury; Severe Burns; Construction Accidents; Truck Accidents; Railroad Accidents and Injuries; Aviation Accidents; Medical Malpractice; Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA); Products Liability; Airplane Crash Litigation; Trucking Liability; Negligence; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Boating Accidents; Aquatic Injuries; Head Injury; Electrical Injury; Motorcycle Accidents; School Bus Accidents; Slip and Fall; Spinal Injury; Mass Torts; Tort Liability; Class Actions; Complex and Multi-District Litigation; Personal Injury |
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| Education |
Indiana University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1981, Cambridge University, England; Valparaiso University, A.B., 1979 |
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| Admitted |
1981, Indiana and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana; 1986, Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Born |
Gary, Indiana |
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| ISLN |
909484284 |
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| Biography |
United Way Leadership Donor and Member, The Tocqueville Society. Named, Distinguished Barrister for Leadership in the Law, 2008. Recipient, Fifth Annual Child Safety Advocate Award, Indiana University School of Medicine - Automotive Safety Program. Appointed Class Counsel in several important class actions, including the South Shore Train Crash at Gary, Indiana, on January 18, 1993; the Nurseryland Bus Crash at Gary, Indiana, on June 25, 1998; the Truck/Train Collision at Portage, Indiana, on June 18, 1998. Also appointed to Plaintiffs' Discovery Committee for the Air Crash Disaster at Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989. Clients have been featured on DATELINE and he has also been interviewed on INSIDE EDITION, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, WGN, FOX, listed in Who's Who in American Law and on OPRAH. Former Superior Court Judge, pro tempore. Member, Carpenter's Union (UBC). Former Member, Teamster's Union (IBT). Former railroad Track Laborer (UTU). Fellow, Indiana Bar Foundation (Life Patron Fellow). |
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