Michael Bartolic - Chicago, IL

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 2005
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Law Review: The John Marshall Law Review, Editor-in-Chief

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002
    B.S.
    Honors: With Honors
    Major: Accounting

Current Employment Position(s)

• Managing Partner

Languages

• English (Primary)

• Croatian

Representative Cases

• Ferrin v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., No. 16-cv-469, __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2018 WL 4849109 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 28, 2018)
• Sadowski v. Tuckpointers Local 52 Health & Welfare Trust, 281 F. Supp. 3d 710 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 20, 2017)
• Tassone v. United of Omaha Life Ins. Co., 264 F. Supp. 3d 867 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 30, 2017)
• Suson v. PNC Fin. Servs. Grp., Inc., No. 15-CV-10817, 2017 WL 3234809 (N.D. Ill. July 31, 2017)
• Contreras v. United of Omaha Life Ins. Co., 250 F. Supp. 3d 338 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 25, 2017)
• Carlson v. Northrop Grumman Corp., 196 F. Supp. 3d 830, 62 EB Cases 1921 (N.D. Ill. 2016)
• McKeown v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, No. 16 C 748, 2016 WL 4720048 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 9, 2016)
• Nagle v. The Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., No. 15-CV-6073, 2015 WL 9268420 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 21, 2015)
• Carlson v. Northrop Grumman Corp., No. 13 C 2635, 2014 WL 5334038, 59 EB Cases 2570 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2014)
• Schane v. Int’l Bhd. of Teamsters Union Local No. 710 Pension Fund Pension Plan, 760 F.3d 585 (7th Cir. 2014)
• Travis v. Midwest Operating Eng’rs Pension Plan, No. 13 CV 12, 2014 WL 4057372 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 15, 2014)
• Young v. Am. Junkie River N., LLC, No. 13 C 8901, 2014 WL 1493354 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 14, 2014)
• Novak v. Life Ins. Co. of N. Am., 956 F. Supp. 2d 900 (N.D. Ill. 2013)
• Coleman v. Supervalu, Inc. Short Term Disability Program, 920 F. Supp. 2d 901, 55 EB Cases 1680 (N.D. Ill. 2013)
• Bd. of Trs. of the Auto. Mechanics’ Local No. 701 Union & Indus. Welfare Fund v. Brown, No. 12-CV-10268, 2013 WL 5873360, 56 EB Cases 2876 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 30, 2013)
• Garner v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., No. 12 C 709, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48064 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 5, 2012)
• Miller v. State, No. CR 08–1413

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar
• U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin
• California, 2019
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2020

Other Affiliations

• American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment (Co-Chair)
• American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee, Subcommittee on Benefit Claims (Co-Chair)
• American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, Employee Benefits Committee, Subcommittee on Litigation & Legislation (Past Co-Chair)
• Illinois State Bar Association, Employee Benefits Section Council (Past Chair)
• Chicago Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee (Past Chair)