Attorneys  -  Gary K. Gale

  Practice Area
Workers’ Compensation Litigation

  Experience
Mr. Gale has been a workers compensation practitioner for 24 years. He became associated with Maciorowski, Sackmann & Ulrich in 2005. Previously he served as the Executive Director of the Illinois Industrial Commission for two and one-half years where his duties included supervision of the Judicial Division.

Mr. Gale has been a staff counsel attorney for the American International Group, Safeco Insurance and Kemper Insurance concentrating in defending employers in Workers Compensation cases. He also was an Assistant Illinois Attorney General representing state agencies as employers before the Industrial Commission. Mr. Gale has tried hundreds of Workers Compensation cases and has extensive knowledge of the Second Injury Fund due to representing the State Treasurer as ex officio custodian of the fund for all cases filed in Northern Illinois under that section of the Workers Compensation Act for two years.

  Education
J.D. Chicago Kent College of Law –I.I.T. 1980
M.A. University of Missouri School of Journalism 1976
B.A. Case Western Reserve University 1973

  Bar Memberships
Illinois State Bar Association; Workers Compensation Section
Workers Compensation Lawyers Association