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Gary
A. Grasso
ggrasso@grassolaw.com
Partner
Grasso Bass, PC
760 Village Center Drive
Suite 200
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
t 630.654.4500 f
630.455.4646
Gary has focused his practice for over
twenty-eight years in professional liability & ethics
litigation expanding more recently into gaming law. He has
represented Chicago area lawyers and their firms before the
federal and Illinois courts, and the Illinois Attorney
Registration & Disciplinary Commission. He has represented
a gaming company for various licensing and regulatory matters
before state gaming commissions and the National Indian Gaming
Commission (NIGC).
As a litigator for over 28 years,
Gary has handled a wide range of civil cases concerning
physicians, attorneys, and serious permanent injuries. He has
tried jury cases in the state and federal courts of Illinois
and participated in numerous mediations. Gary has defended
doctors and Chicago area hospitals, including Cook County
Hospital (now Stroger Hospital), Northwestern and Childrens
Memorial Hospitals.
Gary is also the Mayor of Burr
Ridge, Illinois. Among his responsibilities, Gary monitors and
participates in the village’s labor contracts and
negotiations, and oversees the administration and police
services of the village. Gary is also a trustee of the DuPage
County Board of Health and a former hearing officer of the
Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission
(ARDC).
Gary was featured in SkyRadio’s America’s
Premier Lawyers series in July 2007 and also part of the Sky
Radio listing of "America's Premier Lawyers" in the
August 2007 edition of Fortune Magazine (click on
images to enlarge). He was a featured speaker at the MGM
Grand, Las Vegas in 2005 on professional liability practices.
 Gary
was recently interviewed by Steve Murphy on the television
program, Insider Exclusive.
Click here
and here
to watch Gary Grasso's interview on the Insider
Exclusive TV
Show in which
Mr. Grasso discusses the
elements of a legal
malpractice claim and legal ethics.
Gary is married to Janet Ryan Grasso since 1978.
They are raising their six children in Burr Ridge, Illinois
while trying to attend college and traveling-team soccer games
throughout the country.
EDUCATION:
Georgetown University, Foreign
Service 1973
John Hopkins School of International
Studies
(Bologna, Italy) 1973
Fordham University Law School
1978
LAW LICENSES:
Illinois 1978
ND Illinois
Federal Trial Bar 1985
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