Background
Dragutinovich, Zoran was born on June 22, 1946 in Gevelsberg, Germany.
Dragutinovich, Zoran was born on June 22, 1946 in Gevelsberg, Germany.
Roosevelt University (Bachelor of Arts with honors, 1967). New York University (Master of Arts, 1968). IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law (Juris Doctor, with high honors, 1983).
Executive Editor, Notes and Comments, 1П7- Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1982-1983.
Spoken languages: Serbo-Croatian.
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, 1983, Illinois and United States.
District Court, Northern District of Illinois. 1995, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Executive Editor, Notes and Comments, Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1982-1983. Author: "Recovery of Court-Appointed Defense Costs: Framework for a Model Recoupment Statute," 57 Chicago-Kent Law Review, 457, 1981.
Law Clerk to the Honorary Allen Hartman, Justice of Illinois Appellate Court, 1983-1985.
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.
Chicago and American Bar Associations.