Waukegan Workers' Compensation Lawyers Overview
When you have had a work injury in Lake County, it’s not necessarily the case that you’ll be better represented by a Lake County lawyer. The main courthouse for Lake County is located in Waukegan, and it serves as the hub for the county’s criminal and civil litigation. However, workers’ compensation is not subject to the same geographic divides.
If you have a divorce, traffic, or criminal case that will be heard in Waukegan, you may get an advantage by hiring an attorney that regularly practices out of that courthouse. The local Lake County lawyers that are appearing in those courtrooms regularly, may be familiar with the judges and be privy to other information that could be helpful to their clients. There may be local county rules and procedures that they would be familiar with as well.
But the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission is not organized in a county-specific way. The Waukegan courthouse has two arbitrators that will hear cases that are assigned to that location. The cases are assigned to a courthouse based on the proximity of the location of the accident or injury. For your workers’ compensation case, you are likely better served by choosing a lawyer based on expertise in the specifics of workers’ compensation, rather than based on geography—particularly where the case is unique or difficult.
A lawyer that practices in Chicago may have more experience with a variety of relevant Illinois workers’ compensation cases, and it is not necessary for the lawyer to have that much experience at the specific hearing site. Also, many Chicago lawyers are actually from Waukegan, Libertyville, Highland Park, and other suburbs where it is very feasible to go to both Chicago courts and to the Waukegan courthouse.
In the workers’ compensation area, the substantive legal experience can often help you better than the geographic familiarity. All that said, we know some great Waukegan work comp attorneys. If you want a recommendation or just wish to talk about your case, please call us at (312) 346-5578.
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