Mark D. DeBofsky
Phone: 1-312-445-9166 | V-Card | CV
Attorney Mark DeBofsky is a member of the firm as well as an adjunct professor of law at John Marshall Law School. He has also lectured at conferences sponsored by many organizations, including the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, and LexisNexis/Mealey's. Many of his cases have resulted in precedent setting decisions that have been published by the federal appellate courts.
In 2008, he was nominated as a finalist for LexisNexis' Insurance Law Center Policyholder Attorney of the Year award. Attorney DeBofsky is proud to have been recognized by his peers in the legal profession with the coveted AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated SM by Martindale-Hubbell®. He was named a Super Lawyer in Employee Benefits/ERISA in every year since 2009, and in 2011 and 2012, he was listed among the Top 100 Lawyers in the State of Illinois. He has also been ranked by other lawyers to be among the top ten Illinois social security disability attorneys and the top ten Illinois plaintiff's employment attorneys by the Leading Lawyers Network.
Areas of practice
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Admitted to practice
- Illinois
- Hawaii
- United States Supreme Court
- United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Central Districts of Illinois, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Northern District of Indiana, Northern District of Iowa, District of Arizona, and the District of Hawaii
- United States Circuit Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits
Education
- University of Michigan, B.A. with high distinction and honors, 1977
- University of Illinois, J.D., 1980
Professional memberships
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives
- American Conference Institute
- American Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
- American Arbitration Association, Certified Arbitrator
