Matthew Willens
Founded Willens & Baez in 2007. Before that he was a partner at Clifford Law Offices — Robert Clifford’s firm, also listed on this page — and before that he worked for a major insurance company managing million-dollar-plus claims from the defence side. His site carries heavy superlatives; we tag them as his claims, not as facts.
The bar record
We read Matthew Willens 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 own account and Clifford’s line up: Willens says he was a partner at Clifford Law Offices before founding his own firm in 2007. Both men are listed on this page, and the connection is only visible because both are.Verified
His firm’s rideshare page is the most heavily sourced in this batch. It cites University of Chicago research on ride-hailing and traffic fatalities and a paper in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine on driver fatigue, and sets out a five-period insurance table.Verified
The ARDC records his telephone as (312) 957-4165. His site publishes (312) 598-1326. Both are stated here; the register carries the first.Verified
What the firm says
His site describes him as recognised by the Illinois legal community as the “Best of the Best” in personal injury law, a Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer — an honour it says goes to fewer than 1% of Illinois lawyers — a Leading Lawyer, and a member of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel.Reported
He says he holds an AV Preeminent 5.0 peer review rating in Martindale-Hubbell and was named one of the “40 Attorneys Under 40 in Illinois to Watch” in 2004.Reported
He says he is an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law teaching Advanced Trial Advocacy.Reported
His site publishes a long list of verdicts and settlements. We print no settlement or verdict figures.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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