Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Chicago, IL

Attorney Lisa M. Ciharan is an associate with the Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak & Kohen Ltd. law firm in Chicago, Illinois. A top-rated trial attorney and zealous advocate for those who suffered injury or loss as a result of someone else's negligence, Ms. Ciharan focuses her practice almost exclusively on personal injury law, and she has achieved notable success helping clients throughout Chicago and the surrounding areas with their catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims.

Over the course of her legal career, Ms. Ciharan has recovered millions of dollars in total compensation for her plaintiff clients adversely affected by unsafe property conditions, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents and other preventable tragedies. Among her most notable successes, she recently obtained a verdict of $500,000 in a premises liability case (one of the top 50 verdicts in Illinois in 2019), a settlement of more than $862,000 for the victim of a malfunctioning stove, and an arbitration award of $880,000 in an Underinsured Motorist Claim for a client involved in a motor vehicle collision who sustained a cervical herniation, lateral epicondylitis, and an increased lumbar herniation, all requiring surgery.

A 2007 cum laude graduate of Ohio State University with degrees in psychology and sociology, Ms. Ciharan attended DePaul University College of Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctor in 2012. While pursuing her legal degree, she was a member of the DePaul Moot Court Society, and she completed an externship with Circuit Court Judge James Murray. She also served as law clerk for the Cook County state’s attorney as well as for a prominent workers' compensation law firm in Chicago.

Ms. Ciharan is licensed to practice before all Illinois state courts as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Eastern District of Wisconsin. She is a highly active member of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, among her other professional affiliations, and she is fluent in Romanian.