Warren Eagle

Experience

Warren Eagle is the firm's most senior workers' compensation attorney. As a practicing lawyer for more than 40 years and Adjunct Professor of Workers' Compensation Law at Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law for more than 25 years, Warren is a leader in the field. Many of Katz Friedman's attorneys were Warren's students at Kent. He has chaired the Workers' Compensation Section Council of the Illinois Bar Association and the Committee on the Industrial Commission of the Chicago Bar Association. Warren has lectured on workers' compensation law for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Illinois Self-Insurers Association. He has authored several articles on the subject of workers' compensation law. He was an arbitrator on the National Labor Panel of the American Arbitration Association. Twenty-five of his labor arbitration decisions have been published.

Warren graduated with a bachelor of science degree in speech from Northwestern University in 1958 and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan in 1961. He served nine years as trustee on the Glencoe, Illinois Village Board; a decade on the Congregation Solel Board - the last two years as president. He has been a director on the Newberry Plaza Condominium Board for 15 years, the last two of which as president. He served six years on the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court. He lives in Chicago with his wife, who is also an attorney, has two grown children also lawyers whose spouses are lawyers, and five grandchildren.