Paul J. Kozacky is an AV-Rated trial attorney concentrating his practice in the fields of commercial litigation and maritime law. Prior to starting his firm in 1997, Mr. Kozacky worked at the Chicago office of McDermott, Will & Emery as a partner in its litigation department.

Mr. Kozacky graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in meteorology. He attended Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of the American Criminal Law Review and graduated cum laude in 1984. Mr. Kozacky is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for the Eastern District of Michigan. He has also appeared before several courts pro hac vice and is conversant in Ukrainian and Russian.

Education

• University of Illinois (A.B., cum laude, 1981)
• Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 1984)

Publications

• Paul J. Kozacky, Narrow Venue Statutes and Third Party Practice: Some Third Party Defendants Get to Go Home, 39 DEPAUL L. REV. 389 (1990).

Organizations

• Chicago Bar Association
• Maritime Law Association of the United States

Bar Admissions

• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Distirct Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Illinois Supreme Court