Specialty

Trial Litigator - named as a "Super Lawyer" in Personal Injury - 2012, 2013, 2016,.2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023

Licensure

Experience

Illinois -1975; Georgia - 2007; U.S.D.C.N.D.Ill; 7^th + 9^th Cir.; U.S.Sup.Ct.

Trial Lawyer and Principal

January 1983 to date: Donald S. Nathan, P.C. + predecessor firms.

§  Supervised five lawyer firm, over 1000 Jury trials both for plaintiffs and defendants, 12,000 B/I cases.

§  Tried (first chair) 151 cases to verdict for both Plaintiffs and Defendants, took over 1,200 workers compensation claims through arbitration.  Rated "Superlawyer" by fellow members of the Bar for several years running.

§  Settled hundreds of cases into six figures, five into seven figures.

§  Defended taxi litigation in torts for Delta Casualty Company from 1984 to 1995 with statutory policy limits of $250,000.

Trial Lawyer

January, 2003 to March, 2006: Kubiesa, Spiroff, Gosselar & Acker, P.C., Elmhurst, IL

§  Defended City of Elmhurst and Village of Oak Brook in tort litigation, one of which involved brain damage settled for $4,875,000 during trial.

§  Prosecuted complex Mechanic’s Lien Foreclosures.

§  Oversaw all tort, workers compensation and general litigation for firm

Trial Lawyer – December, 1979 to January, 1983, Sudak, Grubman, Pritikin, Rosenthal & Feldman, Chicago, IL

§  Prosecuted all personal injury and workers compensation cases for firm

§  Supervised three to six trial lawyers in firm.

§  Defended Chicago Park District and Metropolitan Sanitary District in Workers Compensation Cases.

Trial Lawyer, Heller & Morris, Chicago, IL

May, 1976 to December, 1979.

§  Supervised five to seven lawyers in tort litigation for plaintiffs.

§  Generated gross settlements into seven figures annually.

October, 1975 to May, 1976 – Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.  Prosecuted preliminary hearings in Branches 25, 57 and 44, 26^th + California

Education

Loyola University of Chicago

Juris Doctor, 1975

University of Illinois at Chicago, 1971, B.A. Cum Laude.