Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Chicago, IL

Honors and Awards:

• Mr. Murray received the Trial Lawyer Excellence Award recognizing his $67,000,000 record jury verdict in the matter of Becker v. ConAgra et al., Trial Lawyer Excellence Award, Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter, 2012

Bar/Professional Activity:

• U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin
• Board of Managers, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Chicago Bar Association
• Member, Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, American Association for Justice
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• Illinois

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• IICLE 2012 Edition, Illinois Civil Practice: Opening the Case, Chapter 6 Limitations

Verdicts and Settlements:

• $6,000,000 settlement for a union concrete laborer that fell 22' from a deck that collapsed causing career ending injuries
• $67,191,333.33 jury verdict including punitive damages in a federal lawsuit arising from a ConAgra grain bin explosion that caused extensive burn and inhalation injuries to a union laborer
• $300,000 for a man who fractured his knee when he tripped and fell on a loading dock
• $400,000 settlement for a woman in a product liability suit that broke her knee after her sweater became entangled in the machine she was working on causing her to fall to the ground
• $407,545 verdict against the City of Chicago for a woman that broke her elbow after tripping and falling on a cracked sidewalk
• $500,000 for an ironworker that fell off a flat bed truck while unloading steel fracturing his heel
• $500,000 settlement for a senior citizen after her foot was broken when it was run over by a bus
• $525,000 settlement for a man injured when a door fell from a display at a hardware store causing a herniated disc
• $600,000 for a carpenter who slipped and fell on the ice on a jobsite
• $600,420 record Kankakee County verdict for a drywaller that broke his wrist when he tripped and fell over an electrical cord on a jobsite
• $616,788 verdict for a 75 year old woman that slipped and fell and injured her ankle and shoulder in a parking lot
• $700,000 settlement mid trial for a truck driver who fell from a dock fracturing his wrist requiring surgery
• $788,000 settlement for a truck driver that fractured his leg after his truck's brakes failed causing the truck to roll backward and pin him to a dock
• $800,000 record Vermillion County settlement for a sheet metal worker after his ankle was broken when it was run over by a trailer on a job site
• $810,315 record LaSalle County verdict for an ironworker who injured his ankle after tripping on debris
• $1,000,000 settlement for a man severely injured after he contacted a live overhead power line while carrying a ladder
• $1,950,000 settlement for an ironworker after a crane operator flipped the wrong switch on a crane causing him to fall and fracture both wrists and injure his shoulders
• $2,500,000 settlement for a female ironworker who fell 12' and broke both of her wrists due to the general contractor failing to provide proper fall protection
• $2,950,000 settlement for the family of a union ironworker who fell 19' and died on a jobsite due to inadequate fall protection
• $2,756,441.82 state record jury verdict in a medical malpractice case on behalf of a girl who suffered an injury to her middle finger at a hospital the day of her birth following a c-section delivery

Educational Background:

• Western Illinois University, B.A., Honors: Cum Laude, 1998