Charles G Haskins Jr. is a graduate of the University of Illinois and received his Juris Doctorate, with distinction, from... Read MoreCharles G Haskins Jr. is a graduate of the University of Illinois and received his Juris Doctorate, with distinction, from John Marshall Law School in January 1976. His practice is concentrated in Workers’ Compensation, handling cases from trial through the Illinois Supreme Court. He is former Chairman of the Industrial Commission Section of the Chicago Bar Association and Past President of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association. A frequent lecturer on Workers’ Compensation, Mr. Haskins currently serves on the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and was Chair of its Workers’ Compensation Committee from 1994 to 2010. Mr. Haskins is Editor of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Workers’ Compensation Book. He is former Secretary of and serves on the Board of Directors of the Workers’ Injury and Law Advocacy Group, a national organization of attorneys representing injury workers. In 2011 he was elected to the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. Mr. Haskins is listed in the current editions of The Best Lawyers in America, Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law, Most Influential Individuals in the United States, Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, and Marquis’ Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. He is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell. He has been nominated by the Leading Lawyers of the State of Illinois as being a top lawyer in his field of practice.   Read Less

Ed Lazarus is a partner in the trial strategy firm Winning Works, co-author of Winning Case Prep-aration (Trial Guides,... Read MoreEd Lazarus is a partner in the trial strategy firm Winning Works, co-author of Winning Case Prep-aration (Trial Guides, 2018), and president of Lazarus Strategic Services.

Command of the current research and science in the areas of decision-making, persuasive communications, and communications strategy, as well as the jury bias model, set Winning Works apart. Lazarus’ clients have achieved verdicts totaling more than three billion dollars using his strategic insights, case theming and framing, and litigation coaching. Winning Works provides jury selection, focus groups, community attitude surveys, case theme development, opening and closing arguments, and supplemental jury questionnaires.

Lazarus Strategic Services’ clients include political campaigns, bar associations, other professional associations and political candidates in the US and abroad. Lazarus has done work for the Associ-ation of Trial Lawyers of America (now AAJ); many state Trial Lawyer Associations; the State Bar Associations of Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Hawaii; the state courts in Arizona, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Idaho; specialty bar associations nationally as well as in more than half of the states in the US and several provinces in Canada; and individual law firms. Lazarus has also worked with the ABA, the National Center for State Courts, and the National Conference of Bar Presidents. Lazarus is a regular lecturer on jury bias, jury selection, jury persuasion, and strategic communications.

From 2000 through 2004 Lazarus was the Senior Vice President of State Affairs at what was then known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA, currently AAJ). In that capacity he assisted state trial lawyer organizations with legislative research, political, legislative, and organizational advice. Lazarus continues to provide strategic, communications, message, and political consulting to trial lawyer associations in the US and Canada.

In 1994, Lazarus served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in charge of Strategic Communications, directing the Research and Communications departments of the DNC. Ed developed message strategy for the Democratic National Committee, and coordinated message and communications strategy among the DNC, the White House, and the House and Sen-ate Democratic leadership.

Lazarus was a founding partner in the political polling and campaign strategy firm Mellman & Laz-arus. Among his clients were then US Senator Al Gore; Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (SD); Representative Dick Gephardt (MO); Senators Harry Reid (NV), Ron Wyden (OR), Barba-ra Boxer (CA), Carl Levin (MI), Howard Metzenbaum (OH), John Glenn (OH), and Dan Akaka (HI); as well as many other members of the US House and local elected officials.

Lazarus earned a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego and a grad-uate degree from Yale, where he also taught in the Department of Political Science. Lazarus was a fellow at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies, and is co-author of Third Parties in American Politics (Princeton University Press, 1984, 1996). He was also a member of the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. Laza-rus has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, and National Journal. Lazarus has provided regular commentary on FOX Morning News in Washington, DC, as well as guest commentary on CBS News, National Public Radio, CNN, C-SPAN, and many local television and radio outlets.   Read Less