Erik G. Swanson
Erik's goal is to help individuals and small businesses with their legal problems. He concentrates his practice in litigation, with emphasis on business-to-business disputes, collections and contract disputes, and real estate disputes.
In the four years since Erik was first admitted to practice, he has taken an active role in hundreds of cases and become a daily fixture in the halls of Chicago's Daley Center (home to the largest unified court system in the United States), as well as State and Federal Courts in the Greater Chicagoland area. As Plaintiffs' counsel, he has had a significent role in winning millions of dollars for his clients; as Defendants' counsel, he has successfuly saved his clients millions of dollars by defeating Plaintiff's lawsuits at summary judgment and on Motions on the pleadings. Erik has taken and defended hundreds of depositions, handled pre-trial and arbitration conferences, and particiated in trials.
He is admitted to practice in before the Illinois Supreme Court, and all the Federal Courts of Illinois (North, Central, and South) and Wisconsin (East and West), as well as the Northern District of Indiana.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Collections
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants' Rights
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Car Accidents
- General Civil
- Illinois
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- French: Spoken, Written
- Italian: Spoken, Written
- Owner and Principal
- The Swanson Firm, Ltd.
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- As the owner and principal of the Swanson Firm, I handle general civil litigation throughout the Chicagoland area, including Cook, Lake, and DuPage Counties. My practice focused on breach of contract cases, collections, business torts, partnership disputes, landlord-tenant disputes, condominium litigation, and probate litigation, including guardianship and will contests.
- Washington and Lee University School of Law
- J.D. | Law
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- Case note writer for the Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal, Treasurer of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society (Tucker Inn), Staff Writer and Webmaster, W&L Law News, Secretary of the W&L American Constitution Society.
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- University of Chicago
- B.A. | Anthropology
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- Illinois State Bar Association
- Member
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- Chicago Bar Association
- Member
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- American Bar Association
- Member
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