Michael D. Freeborn is a trial lawyer based in Chicago, Illinois. For
over 30 years he has
been representing companies before judges and juries in state
and federal courts.
His practice has been concentrated in six
areas -- antitrust, commercial, employment, environmental, product liability and
securities
litigation.
He is the only lawyer in
history to win a jury trial for a company in a
"fraud on the market" securities class action,
despite evidence that directors and officers of the company were selling shares
prior to a disappointing earnings announcement. Grassi v. Information
Resources, Inc., 63 F.3d 596 (7th Cir. 1995).
The
defendant's successful use of a "shadow jury" during trial of the case
was most recently featured in a front page
article
of the National Law Journal on May 21, 2001.
He is a founding partner of Freeborn & Peters,
one of America's leading law firms to business. It is a Chicago-based
firm
with approximately 120 lawyers engaged in practice nationwide --
