Top Rated Medical Malpractice Attorney in Chicago, IL

Bar/Professional Activity

• Vermont
• Virginia
• Maryland
• District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Association, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Member
• Montgomery County Maryland Bar Association, Member
• District of Columbia Bar Association, Member
• Maryland Bar Association, Member
• Maryland Association for Justice (MAJ), Member
• American Association for Justice (AAJ), Member
• Maryland, 1979
• District of Columbia, 1980
• Birth Trauma Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, Co-chair
• Medical Negligence Section of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, Chairperson
• Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Washington
• Texas
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee
• Oregon
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• New York
• New Jersey
• Missouri
• Mississippi
• Illinois
• Minnesota
• Kentucky
• Colorado
• Iowa
• Hawaii
• Georgia
• California
• Arkansas

Scholarly Lectures/Writings

• Chairperson: Birth Trauma Litigation Group Educational Program, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2000, Subject: Maternal Infection in Pregnancy and Cerebral Palsy
• Co-Chairperson, Birth Trauma Litigation Group Educational Program, Atlanta, July, 2002, Subject: Distinguishing Between Asphyxia and Stroke: The Timing of Brain Injury
• Maryland Trial Lawyers Association Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, Baltimore, January 2002, Subject: Using Fetal Monitoring to Assess Quality of Care and Timing of Injury
• ATLA Summer Conference, Montreal, July 2001, Chairperson: Birth Trauma Litigation Group Educational Program Subjects: Maternal Infection in Pregnancy and Cerebral Palsy, and the International Consensus Template and the Criteria for Establishing a Link Between Birth Asphyxia and Cerebral Palsy
• ATLA Summer Conference, Chicago, August 2000, Subject: Intrapartum Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring: Understanding FHR Variables and Nonreassuring Patterns
• ATLA Mid-Winter Conference, Maui, Hawaii, February 1998, Subject: Antepartum Testing to Assess Fetal Well-Being in the Preterm Infant
• ATLA Summer Conference, San Francisco, July 1999, Subject: Maternal Infection in Pregnancy and Cerebral Palsy, Subject: Early Onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Infection
• Canadian Trial Lawyers Conference, Calgary, Canada, April 1998, Subject: Placental Pathology: A Primer for Birth Trauma Litigation
• ATLA Summer Conference. Washington, DC, July 1998, Subject: Prenatal Care and Review of the Medical Chart
• Chairperson: Birth Trauma Group Educational Program, Maui, Hawaii, February 1998, Subject: The Timing and Etiology of Brain Injury in the Preterm Infant
• Ontario Trial Lawyers Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 1996, Subject: Placental Pathology: The Use of Placental Findings to Prove or Negate Obstetrical Malpractice in Bad Baby Cases
• ATLA Mega Seminar on Profound Brain Injury in the Infant, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 1998, Subject: Placental Pathology: The Use of Placental Findings to Prove or Negate Obstetrical Malpractice in Bad Baby Cases
• Co-Chairperson, Birth Trauma Litigation Group Educational Program, Atlanta, July 2002, Subject: Distinguishing Between Asphyxia and Stroke: The Timing of Brain Injury
• ATLA Summer Conference, Boston, Mass, July 1996, Subject: Antepartum Testing to Assess Fetal Well-Being
• ATLA Summer Conference, New York, New York, July 1995, Subject: What's New in Placental Pathology? Subject: How to Cross-Examine a Defense Placental Pathology Expert in Obstetrical Malpractice Cases
• Maryland Trial Lawyers Educational Program, February 10, 1995, Subject: The Use of Demonstrative Evidence at Trial.
• ATLA Winter Conference, Maui, Hawaii, February 1995, Subject: Placental Pathology: The Use of Placental Findings to Prove or Negate Obstetrical Malpractice in Bad Baby Cases
• Placental Pathology Conferences Sponsored by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Walter Reed Medical Center, 1991 and 1992, Subject: The Use of Placental Findings to Prove or Negate Obstetrical Malpractice in Bad Baby Cases
• Maryland Trial Lawyers Association Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, Baltimore, January 2002, Subject: Using Fetal Monitoring to Assess Quality of Care and Timing of Injury
• Maryland Trial Lawyers Association -- Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, Baltimore, March 2007, Subject: Using the Medical Literature to Rebut ACOG Publications
• Litigating Catastrophically Injured Infant Cases ATLA Program, Atlanta, February 2003, Subject: Using the Medicine to Make Your Case: Electronic Fetal Monitoring
• Co-Chairperson, Obstetric Malpractice Program, Sponsored by The American Conference Institute, Philadelphia, November 2003Subject: What's New in Obstetrical Malpractice and Placental Pathology
• ATLA Summer Conference. San Francisco, July 2003, Subject: Keeping Junk Science Out of Cerebral Palsy Cases: ACOG's Criteria on Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
• Litigating Catastrophically Injured Infant Cases, ATLA Program, Atlanta, February 2004, Subject: Using Medicine to Prove the Timing and Etiology of Irreversible Brain Damage
• Maryland Trial Lawyers Association Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, Baltimore, May 2004, Subject: Keeping Junk Science Out of Cerebral Palsy Cases: ACOG's Criteria on Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
• ATLA Summer Conference, Boston, July 2004, Subject: Keeping Junk Science Out of Cerebral Palsy Cases: ACOG's Criteria on Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
• Litigating Medical Negligence Cases: Updates and Techniques for Pretrial, Trial, and Settlement, Crystal City, Virginia, October 2005 Subject: Closing Argument
• AAJ Summer Conference, New York, July 2011, Subject: The Timing of Emergency Cesarean Sections: When Every Minute Counts
• New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association -- Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, The Best of the Best from Around the Country, Meadowlands, October 2007, Subject: Perinatal Brain Injury
• New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association -- Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, The Best of the Best from Around the Country, Meadowlands, October 2007, Subject: Perinatal Brain Injury
• New York State Judicial Seminars, Rye Brook, NY, June 26, 2008 "Medicine for Judges" Program Subject: Keeping Junk Science Out of Cerebral Palsy Cases: Analysis of Criteria for Linking Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
• Ohio Association for Justice -- Annual Medical Malpractice Educational Program, Columbus, Ohio, May 2008, Subject: What's New in Electronic Fetal Monitoring?
• New York State Judicial Seminars, Rye Brook, NY, June 26, 2008 "Medicine for Judges" Program, Subject: Keeping Junk Science Out of Cerebral Palsy Cases: Analysis of Criteria for Linking Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
• Neonatal Encephalopathy and Neurologic Outcome, AAJ Summer Conference, Baltimore, July 27, 2014
• AAJ Summer Conference, Chicago, July 2012, Subject: Proving the Timing of Brain Damage: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
• AAJ Winter Conference, Miami, February 2013, Subject: How to Handle Damages in Opening Statement
• AAJ Education’s 1st Annual Total Electronic Fetal Monitoring Immersion Seminar, Washington, DC, June 27-28, 2013, Subjects: EFM: Expectations, Problems, and Reality Algorithms for Management of Category II FHR Patterns The Causal Pathway from EFM to Cerebral Palsy
• AAJ Education’s 2nd Annual Total Electronic Fetal Monitoring Immersion Seminar, Washington, DC, June 26-27, 2014., Subjects: EFM: Decelerations & Management of Category III Patterns, 2014 Neonatal Encephalopathy & Neurologic Outcome Litigation Criteria, Chorioamnionitis & Intrapartum Brain Injury
• AAJ Education’s 3rd Annual Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Birth Injury Cases Seminar, Washington, DC, June 18-19, 2015
• Indiana Trial Lawyers Meeting, August 14, 2014, Subjects: Neonatal Encephalopathy and Neurologic Outcome & EFM
• AAJ Winter Conference, Palm Springs, February 2015, Subject: Determining the Timing and Etiology of Neonatal Encephalopathy and Adverse Neurologic Outcome
• AAJ Summer Conference, Boston, MA, July 21, 2017, Subject: Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Fake Data and Alternate Facts
• AAJ Mastering the Medicine program, Atlanta, GA, October 5-6, 2017, Subject: Issues for Electronic Fetal Monitoring
• Obstetrical Negligence in Managing Hypertension: Medical Issues, Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy, September 1992.
• AAJ Summer Conference, Boston, MA, July 21, 2017, Subject: Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Fake Data and Alternate Facts
• AAJ Summer Conference, San Diego, CA, July 28, 2019, Subject: Gross and Microscopic Placental Findings
• AAJ Education’s 4th Annual Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Birth Injury Cases Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, March 1-2, 2018
• AAJ Mastering the Medicine program, Atlanta, GA, October 17-18, 2019 Subject: Fetal Monitoring and Blood Gases
• Chairperson: AAJ Education’s 5th Annual Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Birth Injury Cases Seminar, Orlando, FL, April 2-3, 2020 (to be rescheduled due to COVID-19)
• AAJ Webinar, Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Birth Injury Cases, April 3, 2020
• Obstetrical Malpractice: Hypertension in Pregnancy, Trial Magazine, May 1992.
• Cervical and Lumbar Disc Injuries: Understanding the Medical and Legal Issues, Trial Magazine, January 1995.
• Obstetrical Negligence in Managing Hypertension: Legal Issues, Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy, October 1992.
• Loss of Chance in Obstetrical Cases, Trial Magazine, May 1993.
• Placental Pathology: A Tool for Obstetrical Cases, Trial Magazine, May 1994.
• Antepartum Evaluation of Fetal Well-Being, ATLA Birth Trauma Group Newsletter, December 1994.
• Asphyxia and Cerebral Palsy: Understanding the Medical and Legal Issues, ATLA Birth Trauma Group Newsletter, June 1995.
• Evaluating Birth Trauma Cases Involving Brain Injury in the Premature Infant, ATLA Professional Negligence, 1999.
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring: An Overview, ATLA Professional Negligence Law Reporter, November 1995
• Maternal Infection in Pregnancy and Perinatal Brain Damage, Trial Magazine, May 1996
• Clinical Markers Establishing a Causal Relationship Between Birth Asphyxia and Cerebral Palsy: A Primer for Trial Lawyers, American Journal Of Trial Advocacy, 1997.
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Criteria for Evaluating the Quality and Timing of Intrapartum Care, ATLA Birth Trauma Litigation Group Newsletter, June 1999.
• A Legal Discussion on Medical Malpractice: Can cerebral palsy be prevented? The Montgomery County Sentinel, October 21, 1999.
• A Legal Discussion on Medical Malpractice: Is Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Safe?, The Montgomery County Sentinel, October 28, 1999.
• A Legal Discussion on Medical Malpractice: What Pregnant Women Should Know About Group B Streptococcal Infection, The Montgomery County Sentinel, November 18, 1999.
• Evaluating Obstetrical Cases: A Primer for the Trial Attorney, Prince Georges County Bar Bulletin, 2002.
• A primer on vaginal birth after cesarean, Trial Magazine, February 2000.
• Placental pathology: challenging the causation defenses, Trial Magazine, May 2000.
• Evaluating Obstetrical Malpractice Cases: A Primer for the Trial Attorney, MTLA Trial Reporter, 2000.
• Using Electronic Fetal Monitoring Strips to Assess the Quality of Care and the Timing of Delivery, ATLA Professional Negligence Section Reporter, 2001.
• Settling the cerebral palsy case, Trial Magazine, December 2007
• How to Derail Daubert Motions in Obstetrical Cases, Trial Magazine, May 2002.
• Fetal Monitoring Mistakes and Their Catastrophic Consequences, Trial Magazine, August 2003.
• Keep ‘junk science’ out of cerebral palsy cases, Trial Magazine, May 2004.
• Keeping "junk science" out of birth injury cases, The Advocate - Journal of Consumer Attorneys for Southern California, July 2005.
• Proper use of Apgar scores, Trial Magazine, August 2005
• Birth Asphyxia and Cerebral Palsy, Trial Magazine, January 2007
• Part I: Cerebral Palsy Litigation -- Understanding the Pathways to CP in the Term Infant, AAJ Professional Negligence Section Newsletter, 2007
• Part II: Cerebral Palsy Litigation -- Understanding the Pathways to CP in the Term Infant, AAJ Professional Negligence Section Newsletter, 2007
• Using a Differential Diagnosis to Prove that Intrapartum Asphyxia is a Significant Cause of Cerebral Palsy, American Journal of Trial Advocacy, 2006
• The 2008 NICHD Fetal Monitoring Workshop: The US Obstetrical Community Continues to Resist National Standards of Care, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Newsletter, February 2009
• Cerebral Palsy Litigation: Understanding Cytokines and the Infectious Pathways to Brain Damage in the Term Infant, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Newsletter, January 2008
• Intrapartum Asphyxia is a Preventable, Not Inevitable, Cause of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy, New York Litigation Review, Vol. 2, 2010
• The case for national fetal monitoring standards, Trial Magazine, May 2009
• When Every Minute Counts, Trial Magazine, May 2011
• Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in Cerebral Palsy Cases, Trial Magazine, November 2012
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring Plays a Vital Role in the Management of Pregnant Women and Their Babies, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Newsletter, February 2013
• Hospital Liability for Misuse of Obstetrical Drugs, Trial Magazine, December 2013
• Birth Injury Litigation Criteria Exposed, Trial Magazine, May 2015
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Identifying Fetal Hypoxia and Acidemia, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Newsletter, July 2020

Educational Background

• B.S., Queens College, City University of New York, 1976

Honors/Awards

• Top Lawyers – Washingtonian Magazine (December 2004)
• The Best Lawyers in America®-Medical Malpractice Law, Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiffs – Baltimore, MD
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent, 5.0 out of 5 stars with the highest ethical standing
• The Best Lawyers in America®
• Maryland Super Lawyers
• Dan Cullan Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award, Birth Trauma Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, 2011