Philip A. Bareck has been with Katz Friedman since 1991. His practice concentrates in representing employees in workers' compensation and occupational disease cases before the Workers' Compensation Commission, Circuit, and Illinois Appellate courts. His case load focuses on repetitive trauma claims and accidents in the area of automobile and heavy equipment manufacturing. Phil is a frequent faculty speaker on workers' compensation topics for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) as well as the Chicago Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker at Union meetings, Labor/Union seminars, and Labor Law/Workers' Compensation Workshops in Illinois. He frequently speaks on trial preparation, workers' rights and entitlements under the Workers' Compensation Act, and a variety of topics involving the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. He authored "Physical, Mental and Vocational Rehabilitation Under the Illinois Worker's Compensation Act", "Establishing Accident: The Arising Out of the Employment Element" and a publication entitled "Advanced Workers' Compensation in Illinois." He has written an article published in the Summer 2007 Illinois Trial Journal on "Jurisdiction in Illinois Workers' Compensation Cases: The 2006 Mahoney Decision."

Phil earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois, graduating with distinction in 1988. He earned his law degree from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law with high honors in 1991. While in law school, he was chosen to extern with Federal District Court Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner, currently a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also externed for a Federal Magistrate. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the Illinois Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association.