Background
Kane, Arthur O. was born on January 16, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry L. and Bertha Y. Kane.
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Arthur O. Kane
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Bachelor of Arts Chicago, 1937. Juris Doctor, University Chicago, 1939.
Career
Worked at Kane, Doy & Harrington, Limited. (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Workers Compensation Defense including all Levels of Appeal. Trials, all Courts.
Admitted to the bar, 1939, Illinois.
Member, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Workers Compensation Committee.
Member, Illinois Self Insurers Association. Member, International Association Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions.
Contributing Author: "Preparing and Trying Cases in Illinois," Burdette Smith, 1950. Faculty, Illinois Institute Continuing Legal Education, 1957-1985.
Member: Chicago (Chairman, Committee on Industrial Commission, 1957-1961), Illinois State (Member, 1963-1964, Counsel, 1968-1970 and Chairman, Committee on Workmen"s Compensation, 1970-1971) and American Bar Associations.
Workmen"s Compensation Lawyers Association (President, 1957-1958). Illinois Defense Counsel (Chairman, Workmen"s Compensation Committee, 1966-1968). Kane, Doy & Harrington, Limited. the successor to that of Henry L. Kane and Arthur O. Kane founded in 1939.
Ever since that time the firm has specialized in the defense of workers" compensation cases representing insurance companies, self insureds and trade associations.
The firm"s members and associates collectively possess more than 100 years of trial and appellate experience in the field of workers" compensation, primarily defense. Its members have held positions of eminence in numerous legal organizations and committees.
The firm has, by plan, been kept small so that its degree of excellence in performance could be maintained at all times. The firm is currently engaged in the defense litigation in Cook county, its collar counties and adjacent counties.
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Membership
Founder: Arthur Kane Clinical Legal Education University Chicago, 1937. Member: Arthur Kane Out Patient Center Rehabilitation Institute Chicago, Esther & Arthur Kane Legal Center Blind & Handicapped, Esther & Arthur Kane Funds AMD Research, Esther & Arthur Kane Scholarship Fund Exe. Foundation, Arthur & Esther Kane Fund International Health Development Health Humanity.
Lifetime trustee Rehabilitation Institute Chicago. Captain J.A.G., United States Army, 1947-1952. Member American Bar Association, Workers Compensation Lawyer Association Illinois (president 1957-1958), Illinois Bar Association (chair workers compensation committee 1967-1968), Chicago Bar Association (chairman workers compensation committee 1957-1961).
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Married Bernice Estelle Levine, June 14, 1942 (deceased August 1984). Married Esther Steinback, April 21, 1985.
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American
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1939