Top Rated Insurance Coverage Attorney in Chicago, IL

Frederick J. Sudekum, III, is a founder and senior partner of Sudekum, Cassidy & Shulruff, Chtd., and served as the first managing partner of this Chicago, Illinois, law firm. Mr. Sudekum represents insurance companies in insurance coverage disputes, insurance fraud investigations  and defending first-party property claims. He also handles appeals and general litigation matters.

Mr. Sudekum was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1977 from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.  He studied law at the Saint Louis University School of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1980, at which time he gained admittance to practice before the Missouri state courts. One year later, he was admitted to practice before the state courts of Illinois.

In more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Sudekum has focused his efforts on insurance-related cases and has represented these clients in high-profile cases of fraud, fires, explosions and other typoes of losses.

He has also served as the editor for the second edition of the Indiana and Illinois "Annotations to the Homeowners' Policy" published under the American Bar Association and was appointed by the attorney general of Illinois to write a section of the "Attorney General Arson Training and Prosecution Manual."

Mr. Sudekum is a member of the American Bar Association and CLM, the Claim and Litigation Managment organization. Through peer review he has achieved a rating of AV Preeminent* with Martindale-Hubbell.

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