Primary Office
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Illinois Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Firm Involvement
- General Counsel
- Chair, Ethics Committee
- Member, Contingency Fee & Litigation Funding Committee
- Co-Chair, Client Intake Committee
- Vice Chair, Appellate Practice
Degrees
- J.D., High Honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1985
- M.B.A., The University of Chicago, 1979
- B.A., The University of Chicago, 1978
Honors & Awards
- Recipient of Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association Litigation Award for 2022 for work on McCafferty v. Village of Hoffman Estates.
- Selected for inclusion in The Appellate Lawyers Roundup, 2022
- Selected for inclusion in the Illinois Super Lawyers list for Business Litigation, 2005, 2007 to present
- Named to the "Illinois Leading Lawyer" list
Teaching Experience
Hal has a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago Law School teaching legal ethics and professional responsibility. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent School of Law, teaching an advanced senior honors seminar on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He founded Chicago-Kent's Seventh Circuit Review, a scholarly journal discussing recent Seventh Circuit cases, and he continues to serve as the professor in charge of that journal.