Our Practice

Our pride is personal contact with every client and truly personal attention for the clients.  Baime and Baime’s practice is not a high volume practice.  Rather, it is a practice where the lawyers know each and every client and personally tend to clients’ matters with professionalism and respect.  Telephone calls are returned promptly, typically the same day. 

Virtually all of our cases are accepted on a contingency fee basis. You pay no attorneys' fees until funds are collected from the opposing party.

Both attorneys regularly appear before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (formerly the Illinois Industrial Commission) in Chicago, and also appear before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission in Woodstock, Wheaton, Waukegan, Springfield, and various other cities throughout the State of Illinois.  Both attorneys also appear regularly before the judges in the Circuit Court of Cook County and also practice in the courts in DuPage County, Lake County, and other collar counties. 

Virtually all of our cases are accepted on a contingency fee basis, which means that there are no attorneys' fees payable as the case progresses, only when funds are collected from the opposing party.  There is no charge for the initial consultation. 

The lawyers know each and every client and personally tend to clients' matters with professionalism and respect.

Clients are referred to us by other lawyers, by present or former clients, by doctors, by bar associations, and by a multitude of others.  We pride ourselves on how large a percentage of our clients are referred to us by former or current clients, who wish to again place their trust in us. 

Our clients over the years have come from all over the State of Illinois and many other states as well.  We regularly have clients who live in all areas of Chicago, the south suburbs, the west suburbs, the north suburbs, the northwest suburbs, the southwest suburbs, DuPage County, Lake County, Springfield, as well as numerous other cities in the State of Illinois.  Of course, if a lawsuit has to be filed out of state, we engage co-counsel who are licensed in the state involved.

Steve Baime and Ken Baime believe that trials should be avoided whenever possible and that settlements should be aggressively pursued.  They believe that a good settlement is preferable to a contested trial, not only because of the risks inherent in trials, but because of the expense involved.  That being said, when a favorable settlement cannot be reached, both lawyers aggressively and professionally engage in trials and see the case through to the end, whether by settlement, judicial decision, or verdict.