Bruce R. Meckler
Partner |
Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP
Chicago Office 123 North Wacker Drive Suite 1800 Chicago, Illinois 60606
Tel: 312 474 7870 |
Bruce serves as the Co-Chair of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson and is the founder of its 19 Member Legal Audit Practice Group. A former prosecutor, Bruce has been providing clients and the legal community with litigation and counseling services for almost three decades. As an active litigator, Bruce’s personal practice consists of high profile, complex commercial, insurance, reinsurance, criminal (white collar crime) and professional liability litigation. Bruce also serves as counsel to a number of Fortune 500 companies. As an adjunct to his professional liability practice, Bruce frequently serves an attorneys’ fee expert and has testified before numerous state and federal tribunals. Bruce has conducted or supervised more that 150 legal bill review audits involving over $2 billion in legal fees and has testified in deposition and trial on more than a dozen occasions. He has also led and supervised numerous non-fee related corporate and governmental investigative/legal audits involving issues ranging from financial fraud and malfeasance to alleged abuses in governmental hiring. Bruce began his career as a prosecutor in the State's Attorney's Office of Cook County, Illinois as an Assistant State Attorney.
Bruce has been a long standing appointee to the Illinois Supreme Court’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility. Bruce also serves at the pleasure of Illinois’ Governor as the State’s representative for the re-development projects involving Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center and Navy Pier.
The subject of numerous news articles and features stories, Bruce’s practice was recently featured in the March 2007 issue of The American Lawyer in an article entitled: “Meet Mr. Meckler.”