Elfenbaum Evers & Amarillo, PC

Specialties

Elfenbaum Evers & Amarilio, P.C. is a Union Privilege law firm located in Chicago, Illinois. Our firm’s focus is on helping people, primarily injured workers, with their Illinois Workers’ Compensation claims. For over three decades, tens of thousands of Illinois workers and their families have relied on us to help them recover from the effects of on-​the-​job accidents, injuries, and diseases.

When fighting for injured workers, our goals are clear and simple:

1. Keep injured workers fully paid while they are off work

2. Get injured workers to the very best hospitals and doctors

3. Get injured workers top-​dollar compensation for their injuries.

A workers’ compensation claim can quickly become a nightmare, and you do not have to fight alone.

History

Established in 1974.

While there are thousands of lawyers in Illinois representing the Movers and Shakers, we represent the Moved and Shaken. We have devoted our careers to protecting and promoting the physical safety and economic security of workers and their families in Illinois.

Under the current system, employers and insurance companies have the upper hand. Every day, we see employers violating workers’ rights, improperly denying medical care and income protection benefits. Absurd legal technicalities and procedures create endless delays. When this happens, working families suffer enormously. .. yet year after year, insurance company profits soar to obscene levels.

We use the law to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. We believe workers and families matter more than record profits and fat-​cat CEO salaries.  Elfenbaum Evers & Amarilio has a proven track record of leveling the playing field. We fight back very effectively. We help every injured worker we represent get the very be

Meet the Business Owner

Ian E.

Business Owner

Ian Elfenbaum has been practicing law since 1988. Ian graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985 with a degree in Economics, and from the UCLA School of Law in 1988. Ian is on the board of directors of CACOSH, a workplace safety advocacy group which includes doctors, union officials, community activists, researchers and lawyers. He is also a member of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA). Ian is the firm’s managing partner and the father of four children.