Mike has been an attorney since age 22. For most of his career he has handled complex catastrophic personal injury and worker's compensation cases. He currently serves on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Instructions, and on the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. He also served over 11 years on the Board of the American Trial Lawyer's Association, now American Association for Justice. He has published on topics which vary from admission of positron emission tomography scans in traumatic brain injury cases  and immune consequences of chlordane exposure to using experts in construction site accident cases. He has served on the Illinois State Bar Political Action Committee and various other boards or committees. He has also taught at The John Marshall Law School. He is married 35 years and has three grown children.