Berg & Berg Attorneys at Law

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  Stephen M. Wauck

  Attorney

  Stephen began working for Berg & Berg in 2007 as a paralegal. The experience and confidence he gained at the firm encouraged him to enroll at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. While in law school, he clerked one summer for Judge Daniel Lynch of the Cook County Law Division, and spent another summer representing indigent defendants in major felony cases in Cook County. In his final year of law school he worked in the area of eminent domain. Stephen currently concentrates his practice in workers' compensation claims, representing hundreds of injured employees from the filing of the case through trial, appeals, and final settlement. Stephen has also appeared in many civil cases ranging from rather small cases to million dollar claims. Stephen also handles a variety of criminal defense matters for the firm in felony, misdemeanor and traffic courts.

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• John R. Berg

  Attorney

  John is a highly experienced trial attorney with well over one hundred jury trials to his credit as well as hundreds of bench trials and arbitrations. He has represented clients in State court throughout Illinois as well as clients in State and Federal Courts from Iowa to New Jersey, and from Wisconsin to Florida. John routinely handles civil cases involving catastrophic injury or death and has obtained multiple judgments of more than a million dollars. John believes that his extensive litigation and trial experience is helpful whether he is resolving disputes inside or outside of court.

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  Peter K. Berg

  Founding Partner

  Peter Berg is the founding partner of Berg & Berg with over 30 years of experience in the personal injury field. Peter is a highly skilled and experienced trial lawyer, litigator and negotiator, with over one hundred trials, approximately one thousand arbitrations, as well as millions of dollars every year, in settlements, awards and verdicts in various court houses in and around the Chicago area. Peter started his law career as an insurance defense attorney, representing people and businesses with insurance, who were accused of injuring others by their wrongful actions in court. The insurance company hires and pays the attorney to represent and defend the alleged wrongdoer in a court action for money damages. Peter had an almost perfect record of success defending his clients in jury trials and obtained more than 30 not guilty verdicts favoring his clients. In 1997, Peter switched sides and dedicated himself exclusively to representing those who were wronged by others in personal injury and wrongful death cases. The insurance agencies that Peter once defended are the institutions that he fights against on behalf of injured clients. Analyzing a case from a defense perspective as well as a Plaintiff’s perspective helps Peter capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of a Personal injury or Wrongful Death case, earning Peter a high record of success in winning money damages for his injured clients.

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