Daniel M. Kotin
Founding shareholder; previously a partner at Corboy & Demetrio. The Illinois Supreme Court appointed him to the ARDC Hearing Board, where from 2012 to 2021 he helped decide disciplinary cases against other lawyers — the same commission whose register we use to check him. President of the Chicago Bar Association 2016–17. His bio publishes many verdict and settlement figures; we print none.
The bar record
We read Daniel M. Kotin in the public register of the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. This is what it says.
and pending proceedings
What the ARDC will and won’t stand behind. It enumerates what that discipline line covers: all public discipline, court-ordered disability inactive status, reinstatement and restoration dispositions, and pending public proceedings — with no cut-off date. It then says investigations are confidential and that information about whether one exists is not available. So “None” means the register shows no public discipline and no pending public proceeding. It does not mean no complaint was ever made. We report the register, not an inference from it.
The insurance line is his, not the register’s. Illinois publishes a malpractice-insurance field, which most registers do not — but read its wording. It says the attorney reported at annual registration that he or his firm maintains cover. The ARDC is publishing his answer, not verifying it. Arizona and Washington publish an insurance field too; Illinois is the one that names whose claim it is.
What the record shows
His ARDC entry reads None against a discipline field that carries no cut-off date: all public discipline, court-ordered disability inactive status, reinstatement and restoration dispositions, and pending public proceedings. Thirty-four years, nothing on it.Verified
Everything else on this page — the Hearing Board appointment, the bar presidency, the fellowships — is his own account, tagged below as such. We could not load his firm’s site from our network to read any of it ourselves.Verified
What the firm says
He says he was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Hearing Board of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (2012–2021), served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness (2017–2024), and currently sits on the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee (2025–present).Reported
He says he served as President of the Chicago Bar Association in 2016–17, is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the International Society of Barristers, and sits in the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates.Reported
He says he has been adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since 1998, has presented at more than 140 legal programmes and has been published more than 30 times.Reported
His bio lists a long series of verdicts and settlements. We print no settlement or verdict figures.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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