Josh Yeager focuses his practice on representing companies based outside the United States that are involved in litigation in our state and federal court systems. He is often retained in matters involving product liability, complex business and commercial disputes, general tort litigation, foreign-based hotels and resorts, internet law, and e-discovery. The majority of Josh’s personal injury cases involve catastrophic injury or death, and most of his commercial matters concern seven or eight figure disputes. Josh’s clients also regularly seek his counsel on how to avoid litigation and/or reduce their exposure in litigation through properly prepared terms and conditions of contracts and other commercial documents, as well as developing protective internal policies and procedures.
Josh is a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., 2000), and Illinois State University (B.S., summa cum laude, 1997). He is a member of the Illinois bar, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Central District of Illinois; and Eastern District of Michigan. Josh has also been admitted to practice on a pro hac vice basis in many states throughout the United States.
Josh is a member of The Executives’ Club of Chicago, the Illinois State Bar Association, and RIMS (the Risk and Insurance Management Society).