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George Louis Acosta

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Partner at George L. Acosta and Associates
Chicago, Illinois, 60606

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Personal injury attorney in Chicago for over 25 years.

Contact Information

Law Firm Name
George L. Acosta and Associates
Phone Number
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Location
333 W Wacker Dr
Suite #500
Chicago, Illinois, 60606
United States

Lawyer Background

Year Licensed
1989
Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.), 1986, University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana with a concentration in Political Science and Psychology

Juris Doctorate (J.D.),1988, Loyola University Law School Chicago
Honors, Awards & Affiliations
Fellow of the DuPage County Academy of Bar Leaders

Chair-Qualified Arbitrator in both the Cook and DuPage County Mandatory Arbitration Programs.

De facto General Counsel to mid-sized Chicago-based construction and chemical companies and to Mary’s Kids, a Chicago-based charitable not-for-profit that supports inner-city youth.

Director of the steering committee and as a volunteer with Urban Youth Ministries, an inner-city ministry dedicated to providing sports and summer enrichment programs for children in Aurora, IL.

Past Director on the Board of the DuPage County Bar Foundation

Past Director and corporate Secretary for the Cuban Lutheran Fellowship, a not-for-profit ministry supporting the training of pastors in Cuba.

Past Director on the boards of Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of DuPage County and Fox Valley Lutheran Academy.

Co-author of an Illinois Bar Journal article entitled Beware of the Super Lien, on the subject of Medicare liens in personal injury cases (Spring 1991).

More About Attorney George Louis Acosta

Mr. Acosta is the principal of Acosta & Associates with a concentration in civil and commercial litigation, his broad trial and appellate experience includes representing clients in a wide variety of litigation matters, including wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, Major League Baseball Players Assoc. arbitration matters, product liability and medical malpractice cases, premises liability, and commercial/ contractual litigation. Mr. Acosta is admitted to the trial bar in the Supreme Court of the United States as well as the Northern and Central Federal District Courts of Illinois and has successfully represented several clients before Illinois’ First and Second District Appellate Courts. Mr. Acosta is licensed in the states of Illinois and in Minnesota (currently inactive). 

Mr. Acosta has a national litigation/ arbitration practice including successful representation of Major League Baseball players in arbitration hearings and litigating in the state courts of South Florida pro hac vice on behalf of his professional (MLB) baseball player clients. He is among a handful of litigators representing a national grocery chain in personal injury defense matters. He has 25 years of experience litigating civil and commercial matters for Fortune 500 companies and individual litigants in the state and federal courts of Illinois. He currently resides in St. Charles, Illinois, with his wife of 24 years. Together they have six children. The son of Cuban immigrants (both physicians), he is fluent in Spanish.