Trial lawyer. Defense counsel. Record builder.Alexandra Eve Maimonis, Founding Partner.
Known as Alexis to the claims community. Workers’ compensation defense is the center of the practice, and the record is built as if the review has already been filed.
The lawyer who evaluates the file is the lawyer who tries it.
No hand-off.
She evaluates the exposure, takes the critical deposition, prepares the witness, and stands up at the hearing.
Written for the decision.
What matters now, what is missing, and what should happen next — keyed to the decision in front of the claim team.
Set to be kept.
Billing follows the carrier’s litigation-management guidelines and e-billing platform — systems she has worked inside for years.
First-responder work.
Clients need counsel when they need it, and the file does not wait for a convenient week.
Her first trial came before her license did.
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Her first trial, and a guilty verdict, came before her license.
First defense job
She has carried her own clients ever since.
A leading Chicago workers’ compensation defense firm
Tried the City of Chicago matters below, among many other cases, before the IWCC.
SmithAmundsen, now Amundsen Davis
Built her workers’ compensation book with SmithAmundsen’s support and broadened her practice from one line of insurance to multiple lines, in venues from state agencies through federal court.
Litchfield Cavo
Coverage and class actions joined her practice; workers’ compensation never left it.
Maimonis Law LLC
Under her own name, every file is evaluated, reported, and tried by the same lawyer — and the practice continues to grow.
Three City of Chicago matters show the work.
They are the three with public records; they stand for a much larger body of contested workers’ compensation work that cannot be published.
Larry Pope v. City of Chicago
A jackhammer stroke claim and a six-figure award for 100% loss of use of the left eye — reversed on the record she tried: no accident, no causation, no benefits.
Total denial, reinstated by the Illinois Appellate Court, 2016 IL App (1st) 151922WC-U.
Leola Harrell v. City of Chicago
Years of temporary total disability paid on a treater’s restrictions; her Section 12 examination found a contusion, MMI, and no restrictions — and the Commission awarded the credit she asked for.
$114,141.20 credit, intact through review by the Illinois Appellate Court.
Donna Halters v. City of Chicago
A claimant already paid 25% of a leg, 30% of an arm, and 25% of the person as a whole came back under Section 19(h) for permanent total disability — a weekly check for life. Opposite counsel with thirty years on her, she locked down the medical and shut it down.
Permanent total denied — no material change, no lifetime benefits.
The firm’s values are Chicago values, and they run in the family.
She is the second lawyer in the family to write the guide to her practice area.
Vice principal, Alfred Nobel Elementary School, West Humboldt Park.
Steadiness and protection for children who needed adults, in a neighborhood that did not make it easy.
Former Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney; longtime Supervisor of the Juvenile Court.
DePaul-trained in accounting and law, longtime chairman of the Juvenile Bar Association, and author of the IICLE sections on juvenile trial technique.
Scored on results. Played with humanity, character, integrity, respect, and careful consideration of the consequences of every move.
In the rooms where claims decisions get made.
Education and admission. J.D., The John Marshall Law School · B.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison · Admitted to practice in Illinois.