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Lawrence J. Ferolie
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| Title: | Partner |
| Phone: | (815) 962-2700 |
| Bio: | Lawrence
J. Ferolie is the firm's senior personal injury trial lawyer, with more
than 50 years of experience. He began his career as an Assistant
State's Attorney for Winnebago County, served as City Attorney for the
City of Rockford, founded his own firm in 1976, handling only serious
personal injury, wrongful death and workers' compensation cases, and
finally, in 1994, established the present firm.
Mr. Ferolie has been recognized by the legal profession for his many
achievements. He is considered an expert in the civil trial practice
area of personal injury law. During the past 50 years, he has been
involved in numerous jury trials, both civil and criminal, throughout
northern Illinois. He has authored legal articles and co-authored the
Illinois Law Enforcement Manual and Tort Trends, an Illinois State Bar
newsletter. For a decade, he lectured in his area of expertise at the
Illinois Trial Lawyers College of Advocacy. He has served on the
faculty of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's Basic Trial
Advocacy seminars, an educational program for beginning civil trial
lawyers, and its Regional College of Advocacy for experienced civil
trial lawyers. He has taught at seminars about all aspects of personal
injury trials for lawyers around the nation.
For the past 40 years, Mr. Ferolie has been involved in continuing
legal education. He has served six years with distinction on the Board
of Directors for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
and has served as Planning Chairman for its Annual Trial Evidence
Seminars.
Among his many recognitions was his election as Secretary and Treasurer
of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, in which he has been an
active member for over three decades and has served with distinction as
a member of its Board of Managers for over a quarter of a century. For
four years, he served as Planning Chairman of the Seminars Committee.
He has served two three-year terms as a member of the Board of
Governors of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is a
former chairman of the Tort Law Section Council and the Civil Practice
and Procedure Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association,
for which he served three terms on the Board of Governors.
Mr. Ferolie is admitted to the practice of law in all courts of the
State of Illinois, the United States District Court for Northern
Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
and the United States Supreme Court. He is a lifelong resident of
Rockford, having graduated from the last Rockford High School class. He
is a graduate of the University of Illinois and John Marshall Law
School, which has awarded him the "Citation of Merit as a Distinguished
Alumni."
Mr. Ferolie served during World War II as a Second Lieutenant
in the Infantry with the 12th
Armored Division in the European Theater of Operations. He was awarded
the Bronze Star Medal. While in the Army Reserves following World War
II, he taught as an Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics
at the University of Illinois. He was a member of the Army Reserves
until he was transferred to the honorary inactive reserves in 1950 due
to a residual injury.
Mr. Ferolie's first glimpse of a courtroom was in a high school play,
in which he portrayed a criminal defense lawyer in "Ladies of the
Jury." He represented a woman accused of killing her wealthy husband.
Ferolie won the case. Little did he know that this was only a precursor
to many more wins in the courtroom as a plaintiffs' personal injury
lawyer.
He played quarterback and linebacker on the last Rockford High School
football team in the days that players played both ways, offense and
defense, wearing leather helmets without face guards. He was a member
of the University of Illinois varsity football team until a career
ending injury sidelined him.
Biographical Sketch
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