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| Selected by peers as a Leading Lawyer in: | ||||||||||||||
| Medical Malpractice Defense Law | ||||||||||||||
| Personal Injury Defense Law: General | ||||||||||||||
| ADR Law: Personal Injury | ||||||||||||||
| Advisory Board Member | ||||||||||||||
| County: Winnebago | ||||||||||||||
| Litigator: Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Practice Description: Richard D. Gaines is a senior partner in the firm Holmstrom & Kennedy, P.C., with over thirty years of extensive civil trial experience, including business and commercial litigation, product liability, and medical and legal malpractice defense. He has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the premier recognition for litigators, and selected as a "Leading Lawyer" by his Illinois peers. In recent years, his practice has been primarily focused on medical malpractice defense, mediation, and arbitration. He was one of the original thirteen mediators trained in the 17th Judicial Circuit pilot program for court-annexed mediation in Illinois by direction of the Illinois Supreme Court, and is also a certified mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division. He is a frequent lecturer on civil litigation and ADR topics, and a trainer of other mediators. Bar Admissions: Supreme Court of Illinois, 1969; U.S. Supreme Court, 1984; U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981; and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), 1973. Hourly Rate: $201-250/hour Retainer: Varies upon case Date of Birth: 1944 Law School: University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1969 Law School Honors/Involvement: Class President Undergraduate School: DePauw University, 1966 Representative Clients: A.I. Health Care, CNA Insurance Companies, The Doctors' Company, Rockford Anesthesiology Associates, Rockford Health System (Rockford Memorial Hospital), St. Paul Insurance Companies/MMI, and TIG Insurance Company Employment History: Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, 101st Airborne Division, Republic of Vietnam, 1970-1971 (Tried over 100 courts-martial to judgment); Holmstrom & Kennedy, P.C. (and predecessors), 1971-present. Bar/Professional Association Involvement: Winnebago County Bar Association (President 1986-87), Illinois State Bar Association (Board of Governors, 1980-82, Assembly, 1982-88, 1990-94, Past Chairman of Budget and Finance Committee, Young Lawyers Section Counsel, and Bar Elections Supervision Committee), American Bar Association (Delegate to Young Lawyer Division Assemblies, 1976-80), Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (Board of Governors, 1982-88, Secretary and member of Executive Committee, 1986-88, Budget and Finance Committee Chairman, 1986-87), Joint ISBA/CBA Implementation Commission for the Lawyers Trust Fund, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (Prime Member by invitation), Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Community Involvement: Chairman, Rockford Area Committee for Merit Selection of Judges, 1979-80, American Cancer Society, Winnebago County Unit Board of Directors, 1984-87, Rockford Public Library, Board of Directors, 1987-95 (President, 1989-92), Rockford Public Library Foundation Board, 1991-2001. Published Legal Writing: Co-author, "Court-Annexed Mediation", Alternative Dispute Resolution, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (2001). Firm Description: Holmstrom & Kennedy, P.C., is a seventeen lawyer general practice firm with roots extending back to the 1920s. Its large and diverse clientele includes small and medium size businesses, governmental entities, medical organizations, and individuals. Areas of practice include business and commercial transactions and litigation, financial services, mergers and acquisitions, health care, labor and employee relations, intellectual property, commercial and residential real estate, estate planning and probate, corporate bankruptcy and reorganization, creditor's rights, insurance defense (with an emphasis on professional malpractice defense), administrative law, trial and appellate practice in all courts, and alternative dispute resolution. (Holmstrom & Kennedy partners have by far the most experience as mediators and arbitrators in Northern Illinois.) 1037705 | ||||||||||||||
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