 The Law Offices of Elliot Zinger & Associates provide you with experienced and aggressive attorneys who will protect your rights, serve your best interests and represent you with the integrity and professionalism you deserve.
With over 25 years of litigation experience in both Illinois and Federal Courts, Elliot Zinger P.C. has represented thousands of citizens seeking justice through litigation in both civil and criminal cases. Our personal injury law firm has consistently attained outstanding results for those who have been wrongfully accused, severely injured or discriminated against in Chicago, Illinois and in other jurisdictions nationwide.
Our firm concentrates in representing persons who’ve been severely injured or killed as a result of negligence and in defending serious criminal charges. The firm has been involved in many nationally publicized cases. Our firm has won many millions of dollars for clients in various civil cases. Some of our most recent cases include a trial verdict of $1,875,000.00 in a case against Farmer's Insurance in which the firm successfully represented a board certified psychiatrist who suffered a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident. The firm also recently settled another brain injury case for $1,115,000.00 on behalf of a board certified anesthesiologist who suffered disabling cognitive injuries as a result of medication she was taking to combat the Hepatitis C virus. We this past year also settled a wrongful death claim against an area nightclub for over $500,000.00, after the club security personnel removed our client from the club rather than immediately calling 911 for medical assistance. The case was rejected (as too difficult) by two prestigious law firms before our firm successfully took it on. We also this year won an employment discrimination matter for approximately $500,000.00 and a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) jury verdict for approximately $200,000.00.
Some of the firm’s past and present publicized cases you may recognize from newspaper and television reports. Mr. Zinger was lead trial counsel in the case o f Natkin v. Oprah Winfrey, in which two Chicago area photographers, Paul Natkin and Stephen Green, sued Oprah Winfrey in Federal Court for copyright infringement and the rights to a collection of some 60,000 photographs detailing the history of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In the case, Zinger won what the Federal Judge presiding referred to as a “landmark victory for the rights of photographic artists in America.” The photographers won the rights to allot the contested property in a published summary judgment decision; the remainder of the case was favorably settled several days into the jury trial in the Federal District Court in Chicago.
Elliot Zinger & Associates is currently involved in the representation of the family Kevin Gavin, who was both an honor student and a star athlete at Morgan Park High School in Chicago. In May of 2003, Mr. Gavin was severely beaten on the South Side of Chicago. The beating ultimately resulted in Mr. Gavin’s death. Mr. Gavin’s attacker was convicted in 2006 of First Degree Murder. The City of Chicago is now being sued for the failure of the 911 Center to timely summon police and medical assistance. In July of 2005, the case was prominently featured in a story by Rene Ferguson on the NBC Ten O’ clock News. There is widespread national interest in the issue of response times to citizen 911 calls for emergency assistance.
Mr. Zinger was also lead defense counsel in the murder case against Robert Tucker, one of several youths indicted in what has come to be known as the “Vigilant Mob Murders,” after two men were killed by an angry mob in Chicago after running over and killing and area woman. The case, which received national attention, was originally a possible death penalty case, but resulted in none of the defendants ever being convicted of the first-degree murder charges.
Other notable cases were the defense of David Moore, a murder trial involving the shooting of a by-stander at the opening of the movie “Juice,” which was the subject of national attention due to the claim that gang shootings were inspired by the genre of filmmaking. Mr. Zinger won a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in the murder trial of Johnny Grant in Maybrook, Illinois and was also lead trial counsel in the recent jury murder trial of John Fulton at 26th & California.
In past cases, Mr. Zinger successfully obtained a $1.25 million dollar settlement from the C.H.A. and a private contractor for a minor, Leakia Robinson, who sustained brain injury after being struck by a board in her Stateway Garden apartment. Mr. Zinger won a $410,000 jury verdict in a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit on behalf of a Chicago area playwright, Raymond Hughes after he was assaulted by a Chicago Police Officer. Zinger successfully represented former Chicago aldermanic candidate and civil rights advocate, Wallace “Gator” Bradley in his Federal jury trial (published decision) against Avis Corporation and obtained the first successful jury verdict in Illinois in a second hand smoke “whistleblower” case.
Zinger has been involved in numerous other criminal and civil cases, including the murder appeal of Patricia Columbo, one of the most notorious and publicized murder cases in Illinois history; the sexual assault case against Arthur Schott, in which Mr. Zinger’s cross examination of the minor victim was repeatedly cited by the Appellate Court published decision and led to the defendant’s eventual acquittal. Mr. Zinger has also won a lawsuit against the National Basketball Association on behalf former L.A. Clipper guard Earl B. King. Zinger has also settled numerous other cases for amounts in excess of one million dollars; many of these cases have been the subject of confidential settlement agreements and may not be disclosed.
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