JOHN BRUNO CORSO

**** ******** ******, ************, ** 46220

773-***-**** acurad@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Litigation attorney with personal injury, employment discrimination and family law background. Experienced counselor to parents, employees, and small business owners. Practice areas include: custodial and child support disputes, wrongful termination, contract analysis, drafting legal pleadings and research briefs, administrative matters, and file management.

BAR ADMISSIONS

State Bar of Illinois, November, 1997

State Bar of Indiana, September, 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Baker Law Team

Associate Attorney October, 2009 – April, 2014

Independent Contractor April, 2014 - present

Responsible for all phases of civil litigation, family law, employment litigation, and probate matters.

Family Law: General family law practice involving work on a variety of issues with a particular emphasis on child custody disputes. Primary experience in marital dissolutions, post-marital agreements, child custody, and domestic violence. Duties include all aspects of case management including legal research, preparation and drafting legal documents, responsibility for filing initial and responsive papers, negotiating and drafting temporary and final agreements, characterization, valuation, and division of marital property, and preparation of complex support calculations. Daily contact with clients, self-represented parties, court personnel, and other professionals.

Civil Litigation: Prosecuted cases involving Plaintiff’s motor vehicle accidents and other personal injury related lawsuits. Provided second-chair trial support for Plaintiff’s medical malpractice and wrongful death claims. Skillfully prevented several tenants from being evicted from HUD subsidized housing. Counseled small business owners regarding formation, operations, and risk/litigation issues.

Labor & Employment Litigation: Represented numerous wrongfully terminated employees in claims before the EEOC, as well as in Federal District Court. Negotiated several successful settlements on behalf of clients alleging racial, sexual and age discrimination.

Probate Matters: Efficiently prepared last wills, living wills, power of attorney documents, as well as small estate affidavits and other probate matters, including supervised and unsupervised estates. Counseled clients on how to avoid probate through executing living trusts and joint tenancies with right of survivorship.

Law Offices of John B. Corso January, 2007 – October, 2009

Sole practitioner with offices in Chicago, Illinois. Practice focused in the areas of civil and employment litigation, prosecution of personal injury claims, and real estate closings. Adept at negotiating down medical liens and unpaid medical bills so that settlement offers thoroughly compensate injured clients. Successfully petitioned criminal courts to expunge countless arrest records. Cleverly recovered a would-be home purchaser’s down payment when financing failed to materialize.

Law Offices of Nicholas C. Zagotta May, 2004 – December, 2006

Associate attorney responsible for managing all aspects of general civil litigation, and employment litigation lawsuits.

Civil Litigation: Defended cases involving general negligence, personal injury, construction defect, mechanics’ liens, mold inhalation, family law, and municipal law. Responsible for all aspects of case management including legal research, preparation and drafting of legal documents, negotiating and drafting of temporary and final agreements.

Labor & Employment Litigation: Counseled employees, with emphasis on retaliation, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, and race, age, gender and disability discrimination. Counseled employers regarding personnel policies, wage and hour compliance, hiring, disciplining and firing employees; drafted executive and other employment agreements, offer letters, severance agreements, nondisclosure agreements, proprietary information agreements and employee handbooks. Successfully represented an employer in several Department of Employment Security appeals.

Harrington, Thompson, Acker & Harrington, Ltd. November, 1997 – May, 2004

Associate attorney responsible for managing and supporting a continual stream of plaintiff’s personal injury claims and occupational noise induced hearing loss claims in State and Federal Courts, with an emphasis on representing railroad employees under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act.

EDUCATION

DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL; J.D., June 1997

Bradley University, Peoria, IL; B.S. in Political Science, June 1994

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