Gerald A. Granada
Email: ggranada@ancelglink.com
Member: Workers Compensation Lawyers Association of Illinois; Chicago
Bar Association (former chair, Minorities in the Profession Committee); Asian
American Bar Association (former Director, Board of Directors and former Chair,
Legislative & Judicial Committee); Alliance of Bar Associations of Illinois
(Judicial Candidate Investigator); Filipino American Bar Association; Catholic
Lawyers Guild
Education: DePaul University (B.A., 1990; J.D., 1994)
Practice Areas: Workers Compensation, Civil Litigation, Municipal Law
Bio: Gerald A. Granada received his Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy
from DePaul University in 1990, where he was a Stanley & Mae Scholar and
a recipient of a number of academic honors including the award for the University's
Outstanding Achievement in the field of Philosophy. He then went on to the DePaul
College of Law where he received his Juris Doctor in 1994. In law school, he
was a founding member and past president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student
Association, served as a mediator for the Cook County Circuit Court through
the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, and worked for a number of Arbitrators
and Commissioners at the Illinois Industrial Commission as an intern.
After law school, he focused most of his legal practice on workers compensation,
first as a petitioner's attorney, before joining the staff counsel to one of
the largest property and casualty insurance carriers in the world and the largest
workers compensation insurance carrier in Illinois. He has extensive workers
compensation litigation experience, representing large corporations and local
employers before the Illinois Industrial Commission. He has been featured in
the Bar, Bench and Gavel publication for his work in organizing workers compensation
training and mock trials for claims personnel; coordinating minority mentoring
and trial advocacy programs with the Cook County Circuit Court, the Illinois
Industrial Commission, DePaul University College of Law, the Midtown Center
for Boys and the Metro Achievement Center for Girls; and for his work the area
of corporate diversity training and awareness. Additionally, he possess first
chair jury trial experience in transportation litigation including winning a
not guilty verdict on behalf of his clients in his first jury trial.
Mr. Granada is a past Director and active member of the Asian American Bar
Association in Illinois. He is currently active in the Judicial Evaluation Committee
for the Alliance of Bar Associations in Illinois and the Asian American Bar
Association. He served as a former Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's
Minorities in the Profession Committee and the Board of Directors of the DePaul
University Asian Alumni Association. In the past, he has been a Director and
officer of the Asian American Aids Foundation, general counsel to the Filipino
American Voters League of Illinois, and Director and legal advisor to the Midwest
Asian American Students Union. He represented a number of these organizations
when he lobbied in Congress against anti-immigrant legislation, which was ultimately
defeated. In 1996, he received the Tomorrow's Leaders Today award from the Public
Allies Organization in Chicago honoring him for his work in the community. He
has recently been honored with the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award by the DePaul
College of Law Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, where he was
selected over a number of distinguished alumni that included judges, Illinois
State's Attorney and attorneys from the largest firms in Chicago.
In addition to the practice of law, Mr. Granada currently serves on the Board
of Directors and as General Counsel for the Mariposa Corporation. He is also
a Liturgical and Eucharistic Minister with the Notre Dame de Chicago Parish
in Chicago.
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