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Peter L. Currie

Peter L. Currie

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(630) 912-5702

Practice Areas:

  • Civil Litigation Matters
  • Employee Rights
  • Consumer Rights
  • Personal Injury
  • Construction Defect
  • Technology Law and Other Matters
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Class Actions
  • Collective Actions
  • Mass Torts
  • Antitrust Claims

Biography

Peter Currie is both an expert negotiator and a natural born litigator, with an unblemished trial record, having attained multi-million-dollar verdicts in federal and state courts. This combination of talents serves his clients well as he can often avoid litigation, but is capable, relentless and highly effective when the circumstances require litigation.

Mr. Currie represents clients in a wide range of complex matters, including contracts, negotiations, class actions, collective actions, mass torts, antitrust claims, consumer rights, employee rights, personal injury, technology law, and other matters wherein individuals have been damaged. Mr. Currie has spent his career resolving thousands of matters and cases in an unwavering effort to make his clients whole when they have been damaged and deprived of their rights or property.

Mr. Currie is admitted to practice in Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, Public Justice, and the American Bar Association. 

Education

  • Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri
    • Juris Doctor
  • Northern Illinois University
    • B.S.

Bar Admission

  • Illinois
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit

Representative Jury Verdicts

  • $6.45 million dollar jury verdict for two plaintiffs in a sexual harassment case tried over three weeks in the United State District Court for the Northern District of Illinois – Davis v. Packer Engineering (Recipient of the 2017 “Top 20 Verdicts Award” for Illinois).
  • $2 million dollar jury verdict for an individual worker unlawfully terminated in retaliation for exercising his rights to worker’s compensation – Kaisler v. Kendall County Concrete (Mr. Currie’s first trial, at 29 years old, which represented the largest punitive award in county history at the time).

Representative Settlements

  • In Nash et al v. CVS Corporation, in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island served as counsel on behalf of current and former assistant managers and assistant store managers claiming they were not properly paid overtime because they were misclassified by the company as “exempt” from federal and state overtime pay requirements. The case was brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., and similar state wage and overtime laws. The case was settled, and the defendant agreed to pay up to $34 million into a fund for class member claims.
  • Barnes v. Canadian National Railway Company, et al.: served as Class Counsel in the Northern District of Illinois and recovered $3 million and important nonmonetary relief (i.e., training, monitoring, reporting, etc.) on behalf of a class of African American railroad workers subjected to racial discrimination in the workplace. The complaint maintained the defendants’ conduct was unlawful under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 & § 1981(A).

Past Positions

  • Motley Rice Law Firm

Professional Associations

  • Illinois State Bar Association, Member
  • Chicago Bar Association, Member
  • Public Justice, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member