Attorney Bios

Steve Baime

College:	University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (graduated with honors).
Law School:	University of Illinois College of Law – JD: 1966 (Top 10% of class).
Practice Concentration:	Representing the injured person in Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury.

Bar Associations, Activities and Honors:

Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group limited to personal injury lawyers that have concluded multiple million dollar cases.
Elected to the Assembly of the Illinois State Bar Association continuously for the past 25 years, except for mandatory hiatuses.
Filed the first lawsuit in Illinois to establish liability for the negligent transmission of genital herpes, was the first to settle a case involving transmission of genital herpes, and was the lawyer who won a substantial jury verdict for the first time in Illinois for a victim of transmission of sexual herpes (3 separate cases).
Former President of North Suburban Bar Association.
Former President of Decalogue Society of Lawyers, a bar association of approximately 1,100 lawyers and judges.
Former Justice (President) of Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity Alumni Association of Chicago.
Former Arbitrator for American Arbitration Association; current Arbitrator (chair qualified) for the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Member of Advisory Council of Light Opera Works Musical Theater of Evanston.
Listed in Who's Who in American Law.
Frequent lecturer on law-related topics

College:	University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (highest university honors).
Law School:	Stanford University Law School - JD: 1993 (award for best work in evidence).
Practice Concentration:	Petitioner - Workers' Compensation Plaintiff - Personal Injury

Bar Associations, Activities and Honors:

Illinois State Bar Association Assembly member, continuously for over 10 years, except for mandatory hiatuses.
Illinois State Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section Council (past member and contributor to Workers' Compensation Law Newsletter and speaker at ISBA Workers’ Compensation seminar).
Workers' Compensation Lawyers’ Association member
Arbitrator, Cook County Mandatory Arbitration—chair qualified.
Chicago Bar Association (Member of Committees: Workers’ Compensation, Trial Techniques, Tort Law, Lawyer Referral).
Listed in Who's Who in American Law.
Decalogue Society of Lawyers—Board of Managers.
Phi Alpha Delta, Chicago Alumni Chapter.
(1998 - Justice, 1997 - 1st Vice Justice, 1996 - Clerk, 1995 - Board Member)