RESUME OF SAM PANGER JR

Sam Panger Jr C: 312-***-**** W: 708-***-****

Address: 0N093 Vermont Court, Winfield, Illinois 60190

Employment History:

I. Current Employer: Law Office of Peter G. Limperis, 5624 W. 79th Street, Burbank, Illinois 60459

Start date July 1st, 2006, to present.

Senior Trial Attorney responsible for all personal injury cases from intake through settlement or trial.

Settled trucking accident case, at mediation, while pending in Federal Court, for $1.8 Million, for client

with fractures of forearm and with degloving injury and loss of function; Settled trucking accident case,

at mediation, while pending in Circuit Court of Cook County, for $500,000, for client who suffered back

injury with low back surgery; Settled Motor Vehicle case for Physician (Family Practitioner) who injured

thumb with diminished feeling, at mediation, while pending in Cook County Circuit Court, for $500,000;

Successfully defended attorney charged with malpractice by obtaining a not guilty verdict in jury trial;

Successfully represented client in evidentiary hearing in dispute over distribution of Wrongful Death

settlement proceeds (dispute between client and ex-spouse); Successfully defended client charged

with child endangerment by obtaining not guilty judgement in bench trial; Successfully obtained bench

trial money judgement in favor of client in contract dispute over sale of Chicago cab medallion and

handled appeal in which judgement was affirmed.

II. Prior Employer: Northwest Suburban Law Office, 10600 W. Higgins Road, Suite 516, Rosemont, Illinois 60018

This firm was formerly known as Palivos Law Firm.

Senior trial attorney with responsibility for both new cases from intake through settlement or trial and

for litigation of assigned cases that pre-lit attorneys were unable to settle. Jury trial verdict of $471,200

for client injured during unloading of his semi resulting in tib-fib fracture with nonunion; Settled case of clientwith below the knee leg amputation due to medical negligence for $1.7 Million; Settled case of clientburied by earth wall collapse on bridge replacement job for $1.0 Million plus waiver of $300,000 WorkComp. lien (client survived); Settled case of bricklayer who fell from scaffold with brain injury with residualsfor $1.5 Million; Successfully defended attorney sued by United States for $1.5 Million under the FederalFalse Claims Act by obtaining a settlement requiring him to pay only $25,000; Settled injury claim of clientwho fell from scaffold on Dominick's store construction for $500,000; Settled Medical Negligence case forsix figures against Cook County Hospital for arm amputation due to failure to timely revascularize arm anduntreated hospital borne infection; Settled Medical Negligence claim of double leg amputee alleginginadequate care of diabetes; Settled Medical Negligence claim for family of man who died from a heartattack due to inadequate work up of symptoms; Tried jury case for Medical Negligence resulting inextravasation of chemotherapy which resulted in not guilty verdict, but reversed on appeal due to improper exclusion of evidence/ see Grandi v. Shah, 261 Ill .App. 3d 551, 633 N.E. 2d 894.. I actually tried this case and briefed the appeal while with my prior firm of Katz, Karacic and Helmin, but argued the appeal after moving to the Palivos firm with the consent of my new firm.

III. Prior Employer Info. On request

IV. Education:

Carthage College, Major, Political Science

John Marshall Law School, J.D.,

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