Philip A. Bareck

Philip A. Bareck has been with Katz Friedman since 1991, became a partner in 2003, and a shareholder in 2007. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law teaching Workers' Compensation Law, was inducted into the College of Workers' Compensation in 2022, has been selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer (5% of the attorneys in Illinois), included in Best Lawyers in Workers’ Compensation Law, awarded inclusion in Top Trial Lawyers (American Trial Lawyers Association top 100 Trial Lawyers for Illinois), Top Attorneys in Illinois, selected as one of America’s Most Honored Professionals, nominated as “10 Best” Workers’ Compensation Attorneys for Illinois by the American Institute of Legal Counsel (AIOLC) and selected by his peers to be a Leading Lawyer in Workers' Compensation Law (fewer than 5% of all licensed attorneys in Illinois).

His practice concentrates in representing injured employees in Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Disease cases before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, Illinois Circuit, and Appellate courts. He has successfully represented thousands of individuals with a vast array of injuries and has deposed hundreds of physicians in order to protect and preserve his clients’ rights and entitlements. Moreover, he has secured future medical rights and ongoing treatment for his clients requiring long-term care. Philip has spent his career fighting against Caterpillar, Fiat-Chrysler, Knapheide, the State of Illinois/Illinois Veterans Home, UTC Hamilton-Sundstrand and other large and aggressive companies in Illinois. In 2016, he won a significant Appellate Court decision in Dunteman v. Caterpillar in which the Court found that an employee’s self-treatment, at home, for a work-related injury, which worsened the condition, still remained covered by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act.

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

J.D. (1991) | Law

Honors: Highest Grades Torts I & II/Am Jur; Highest Grades Contracts I & II/Am Jur; Highest Grade Federal Courts

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

B.S. (1988)

Adjunct Professor - Workers' Compensation Law

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

2017 - Current

Lawyer- Partner

Katz, Friedman, Eisenstein, Johnson, Bareck & Bertuca

1991 - Current

Advanced Workers’ Compensation in Illinois

Establishing Accident: The Arising Out of the Employment Element

Jurisdiction in Illinois Workers’ Compensation Cases: The 2006 Mahoney Decision

Illinois Trial Journal

Physical, Mental and Vocational Rehabilitation Under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act

Workers' Compensation in Illinois, Union Meetings

Various Workers' Compensation Topics, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

Workers' Compensation Law - Adjunct Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Top Attorneys in Illinois

Chicago Magazine

2016

Best Lawyers in Chicago

Chicago Tribune

2015

Top Attorneys in Illinois

Chicago Magazine

2013

Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America

American Trial Lawyers Association

2009

Super Lawyer

Super Lawyers

2010-2017

Illinois State Bar

Current

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

Current

Workers' Compensation Bar Association

Current

Illinois

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