Robert Hanaford

For over 25 years, Robert H. Hanaford has represented clients in the trial and appeal of civil and criminal cases in both State and Federal Courts. He has established himself as a leading personal injury attorney concentrating on lawsuits involving death and serious injury resulting from transportation, construction, workplace and product accidents.

Key Cases

Most recently he was co-lead plaintiff counsel in the Fox River Grove Train/Bus crash lawsuit stemming from an October 25, 1995 collision between a Chicago Metra commuter train and a high school bus that resulted in the deaths of seven students. The case settled after 8 ½ years for a record 28.3 million dollars. Mr. Hanaford has successfully handled other complex cases, including the 1979 Rosemont Horizon roof collapse, crash of a Hallmark Jewelry airplane and a lawsuit against Commonwealth Edison for the death of a commercial diver at its Marseilles Nuclear Power Plant.

Appointments and Memberships

• Panel attorney for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
  
• Illinois Workers’ Compensation Review Board, 1993-Present
  
• Two terms on the Board of Trustees for the Village of Fox River Grove (1989-1995) and Chairman of the Public Health and Safety Committee
• Chairman of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Civil Practice & Procedure Council (2004-2005)
• Co-Editor of the ISBA Trial Brief newsletter and the ISBA Insurance Policy newsletter
• Editor of the ISBA Civil Practice Update Manual
• Co-author of the Illinois Trial Lawyers’Association Medical Malpractice Trial Handbook. 

Education

Drake University '82, J.D.

Western Illinois University '79, B.S.

Brett J. Swanson

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Appointments and Memberships

• Law Clerk for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, General Law Bureau
  
• Law clerk to The Honorable Paul P.Biebel, Jr., Presiding Judge of the Cook County Criminal Courts. 
• Appointed to the Illinois State Bar Association Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council
• Active in assisting in the presentation of numerous seminars for the ISBA.

Education

John Marshall Law School, J.D.

University of Minnesota, B.S.

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