JONATHAN E. BARRISH
earned his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1992 and a BA degree with honors from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1989. His bar admissions include the Illinois State Bar, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Northern District of Illinois and the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar. He is also a member of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Barrish has extensive experience representing clients in workers’ compensation cases before the Illinois Industrial Commission, the Circuit Court and the Illinois Appellate Court. Mr. Barrish also has experience in environmental litigation, toxic tort litigation, construction litigation, employers’ liability and appellate practice.

His accomplishments include serving as First Chair for numerous trials, and representing a leading national non-profit organization in workers’ compensation cases as well as one of the nations’ largest specialty contractors. He has also given seminars on various topics within workers’ compensation law.

He is the author of a handbook for a seminar he gave in May of 2004 entitled: “Asbestos Claims under the Occupational Diseases and Workers’ Compensation Acts.” His reported cases include: Cianci v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois, 356 Ill. App. 3d 767, 826 N.E.2d 548 (2005); and Jose Garcia v. Four Seasons Hotel, 97 IIC 1046.