Background
Garmisa, Steven P. was born on July 1, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Garmisa, Steven P. was born on July 1, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
University of Illinois (Bachelor of Arts, 1975). Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law (Juris Doctor, with high honors, 1979).
Worked at Torshen, Spreyer & Garmisa, Limited. (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Corporate, Real Estate, Probate and Insurance.
Admitted to the bar, 1979, Illinois and United States.
District Court, Northern District of Illinois. 1986, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Author: "Decisions of Note," column on legal developments throughout the United States. appearing twice a week in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, June 1994. Weekly columnist on legal developments for the Chicago Sun-Times.
"Claims-Made Policies: Let the Lawyers Beware," 78 Illinois Bar Journal 292, 1992.
Company-Author, "Stays Pending Appeals," Illinois Civil Appeals, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1984. Adjunct Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School, 1984-1986. Lecturer, Illinois Medical Society, Impaired Physicians Committee on Legal Issues for Advanced Intervention Training, May 20, 1988.
Law Clerk to the Honorary Francis South. Lorenz, Justice of Illinois Appellate Court, 1981-1983.
Member, Board of Directors, 1988 and Treasurer, 1988-1990, Lawyers Assistance Program. Member: Chicago (Member, Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1987-1988), Illinois State and American (Member: Insurance Coverage Committee.
Litigation Section, 1988) Bar Associations. Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association.
The firm concentrates its practice in high quality, high profile civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Members of the firm appear before state and federal trial and appellate courts, administrative agencies, and alternative dispute resolution tribunals in Illinois and other States in matters involving business torts, contracts, real estate, insurance, partnerships, securities and commodities, fraud, RICO, construction, corporations, banking, antitrust, malpractice and other business-related litigation including class actions. The firm and its individual members have been involved in over 300 reported decisions of the United States. Supreme Court, various Circuit Courts of Appeals, United States.
District Courts and the Illinois Supreme and Appellate Courts.
Representative of the firm"s diverse clientele are businesses engaged in a wide variety of endeavors ranging from computer equipment leasing to scrap metal processing to soil testing, condominium and cooperative associations, insurance companies and agencies, long term care facilities, financial institutions, real estate developers, law firms, schools, political parties, governmental bodies, and religious organizations, as well as individuals involved in disputes arising from their official, professional or business pursuits. The firm also provides services in the areas of business and real estate transactions, probate, and corporate formation and is general, as well as litigation, counsel to a number of its clients.
In all matters, close communication between lawyer and client is stressed.
Member, Board of Directors, 1988 and Treasurer, 1988-1990, Lawyers Assistance Program. Member: Chicago (Member, Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1987-1988), Illinois State and American (Member: Insurance Coverage Committee. Litigation Section, 1988) Bar Associations.
Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association.