Patrick Brooks

Chicago Personal Injury Attorney Patrick M. Brooks

Patrick M. Brooks has practiced in the areas of Workers’ Compensation and Employment Law for over twenty years. For fifteen of those years he has managed his own firm and tried numerous workers’ compensation cases before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. He has also argued workers’ compensation appeals before the Circuit Courts and the Illinois’ Appellate Courts. He has written and lectured on matters dealing with workers’ compensation law for the Illinois State Bar Association. Mr. Brooks attended Loyola University of Chicago to receive his B.A. and then attended law school.

His professional associations are: Workers Compensation Lawyers Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, American Bar Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association.

When not practicing law, Mr. Brooks is active as a soccer coach and Religious Education Instructor at Saints Faith, Hope & Charity Parish in Winnetka. He also spends many weekends watching his three children swim competitively for the New Trier Swim Club.