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Mike Resis is a founding partner and chairman of SmithAmundsen’s appellate department. He has practiced law in Chicago for 20 years and handled more than 500 appeals. Mike has represented government, business, and professional organizations as amicus curiae before the Illinois Supreme Court and the Illinois Appellate Court. He is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois, before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He has been admitted pro hac vice before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, the Iowa Court of Appeals, the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Missouri Court of Appeals. On behalf of his clients, Mike has reversed a number of multimillion dollar verdicts and judgments, including a $9.3 million verdict against a state tollway and a $10.4 million judgment against an insurance company.

Mike was named to the Illinois Super Lawyers* list for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, a peer review designation published by Law & Politics magazine. He was also listed on the top 100 attorneys who received the highest point values in the 2008 nomination and search process and will be listed in the 2010 Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition for his Appellate work. Mike received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell for his legal ability and ethics and was named a Leading Lawyer in civil appellate law by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. Mike is also listed in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Appellate Law.

*The selection of attorneys to the Super Lawyers lists and Leading Lawyer lists does not guarantee a positive client outcome in any specific legal matter or engagement nor constitute a representation by the firm of SmithAmundsen about the caliber of legal work performed by any other attorney not selected as part of these lists.