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About Howard Ankin
Howard H. Ankin is the founding partner of Ankin Law, a Chicago-based personal injury and workers' compensation firm he launched in March 1997 alongside his father, Paul B. Ankin. A third-generation lawyer, Howard has built the firm into one of the largest personal injury and workers' compensation firms in Illinois with more than 75 employees and offices in Chicago, Orland Park, Rosemont, and Rolling Meadows. He focuses his practice on personal injury, workers' compensation, trucking litigation, wrongful death, social security disability, and civil and criminal litigation.
Practice areas
Education
John Marshall Law School (Atlanta)
Juris Doctor; Bachelor of Arts, 1993
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Communications
Undergraduate, 1990
Bar admissions & credentials
State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
Board of Directors, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
Board of Governors, American Association for Justice
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Managers; Co-President of Workers' Compensation Section, 2017-2019)
Chicago Bar Association
Work Injury Lawyers Guild (Board of Directors)
Awards & recognition
American Association for Justice Richard D. Haley Distinguished Service Award (2023)
Illinois Super Lawyers (2015-2023)
Leading Lawyers (2016-2023)
Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group Top 100 Injured Workers' Attorneys (2015-2023)
2026 Elite Lawyer
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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Chicago firms
Clifford Law Offices
$110 million · American Eagle Flight 4184: $110 Million Crash Settlement and a Courtroom Apology
Corboy & Demetrio
$75 million · John Hancock Center Scaffold Collapse: $75 Million Settlement for the Killed and Injured
Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.
$363 million · Sterigenics Verdict: $363 Million for a Willowbrook Cancer Survivor
Power Rogers LLP
$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
Romanucci & Blandin
$98.65 million · $98.65 Million Verdict for Family of Botham Jean, Shot in His Own Apartment by Off-Duty Dallas Officer