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About Michael Wierzbicki

Michael T. Wierzbicki is a partner at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, where he joined in 2002 after several years defending hospitals and physicians in medical malpractice cases. He holds a B.A. from Albion College (1996) and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law (1999). Michael focuses his practice on truck and auto accidents, premises liability, product liability, nursing home abuse, construction injuries, and wrongful death. He is an aggressive trial attorney known for handling difficult-to-prove injuries including chronic pain, myofascial pain, and traumatic brain injuries, and has obtained many millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Board of Managers, a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, and has been selected to Super Lawyers since 2018.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$5.2 millionVerdict

A Chicago federal jury awarded Matthew Burdick and Jamie Pinkstaff-Burdick more than $5.2 million after a New Prime Inc. Freightliner truck driver failed to slow down in wet conditions on Interstate 57 near Effingham, Illinois, and crashed into their vehicle, finding the trucking company 100 percent at fault.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · 2017Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

DePaul University College of Law
J.D., 1999
Albion College
Undergraduate, 1996

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois, admitted 1999

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