Emmett R. McCarthy was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Mt. Carmel High School. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and received his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law. While at DePaul, he received the CALI Award for Legal Ethics and was a Case Editor for the DePaul Environmental Law Digest. He has written and spoken at seminars for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Chicago Bar Association. He was Chair of the Real Estate Taxation Committee and has also served as Legislative Liaison of that committee and Chair of the Tax Sale and Tax Deed Subcommittee of the Chicago Bar Association.

Mr. McCarthy has handled a wide range of medical malpractice, personal injury, real estate and business litigation. He worked on two jury trials that resulted in verdicts for his clients that were Cook County records. He also handled a jury trial in which his client pierced the defendant’s “corporate veil,” then levied against the defendant’s real estate to satisfy the judgment and accrued interest. His practice is concentrated in real estate tax sale, tax deed and exemption matters; Indemnity Fund proceedings; sheriff levy sales; and real estate and business transactions and litigation.

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