Joseph J. Leonard

Joseph received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1986 from Lake Forest College and his Juris Doctor Degree and Master of Business Administration Degree in a Joint Degree Program from The Dominican University and The John Marshall Law School in 1993. Joseph was immediately hired by a prestigious defense firm in Chicago where he concentrated on defending employers and their insurance companies in major loss Workers’ Compensation cases throughout Illinois. The firm partners recognized his abilities from the onset and trusted Joseph to oversee high-profile Workers’ Compensation cases for major clientele. Other clientele took immediate notice of his trial results as well. At the specific request of a team of Illinois Risk Managers of a major client, Joseph formally divested himself of all other firm responsibilities and became their designated attorney to exclusively handle their sizable Illinois Workers’ Compensation caseload. He was even asked to oversee their Workers’ Compensation cases in other States as General Counsel only three years after his graduation. In 1998, after five years defending insurance companies and employers, Joseph decided he would rather champion the rights of the injured rather than seek to limit them. In 1998, Joseph joined his brother Andrew Leonard in developing and promoting Employee Legal Services, LLC into a prominent Workers' Compensation/Personal Injury Plaintiff’s Law Firm that Andrew had started with the assistance and vision of their late father Dr. Eugene Thomas Leonard III. The Firm is now known as Leonard Law Group, LLC, with Joseph as the Firm’s Senior Attorney, and is located at Teamster City in Chicago, Illinois. Joseph specializes in difficult, career-ending, Worker’s Compensation claims and permanent total disability claims. He accepts cases that other attorneys have rejected as “unwinnable” and consistently shows otherwise.