Mark David DeBofsky
Shareholder - DeBofsky Law: ERISA, Disability, and Benefits Attorney
Attorney Mark DeBofsky is the founding partner of DeBofsky Law as well as an adjunct professor of law at UIC Law School. He has also lectured at conferences sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and LexisNexis/Mealey's. He is a regular writer for Law 360 and other industry publications. Many of his cases have resulted in precedent-setting decisions that have been published by the federal appellate courts.
In 2008, he was nominated as a finalist for LexisNexis' Insurance Law Center Policyholder Attorney of the Year award. Attorney DeBofsky is proud to have been recognized by his peers in the legal profession with the coveted AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated SM by Martindale-Hubbell®. He has also been ranked by other lawyers to be among the top five percent of all Illinois attorneys in Disability, Employee Benefits, and ERISA law by the Leading Lawyers Network and has persistently been recognized as Super Lawyer in Employee Benefits/ERISA since 2009.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, ERISA
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance
- ERISA
- Disability insurance
- Employee benefits
- Insurance law
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- District of Arizona
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- Eastern District of Wisconsin
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- Illinois
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- Northern District of Indiana
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- Northern District of Iowa
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- English
- Founder & Shareholder
- DeBofsky Law (DeBofsky Law (formerly DeBofsky, Sherman & Casciari, P.C., DeBofsky & Associates, P.C.)
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- Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant
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- DeBofsky & DeBofsky
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- Associate Attorney
- Stack & Filpi, Chicago, Illinois
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- University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- J.D.
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- University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- B.A.
- Honors: Graduated with high distinction and honors.
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- Top 100 in Illinois
- Auper Lawyers
- Super Lawyers is a designation of top-rated practicing attorneys selected through extensive evaluation. He was awarded this distinction for 2005 - 2023.
- AV - Preeminent
- Martin Hubble
- Chicago Bar Association
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- Illinois State Bar Association
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- American Bar Association
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- American Association for Justice
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- National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives
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- American Conference Institute
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- American Bar Foundation
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- American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
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- American Arbitration Association
- Certified Arbitrator
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- Disability benefits turn on symptoms over diagnosis
- Law360 Jounral
- “Physician was full-time employee entitled to benefits, court finds,” , December 10, 2020
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Workplace Issues
- “Arbitration of ERISA Claims,” presentation to , Chicago, Illinois, Benefits Working Group at Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Illinois
- Certified Arbitrator
- American Arbitration Association
- Refresher Training
- United States Arbitration and Mediation, Inc.
- Basic Mediator Training
- United States Arbitration and Mediation, Inc.
- Certified Arbitrator
- Circuit Court of Cook County
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