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The Cates Law Firm is proud to announce that David Cates, Esq. has been named to the 2025 Illinois Super Lawyers list as a top-rated personal injury lawyer. David concentrates his practice on class action, mass tort personal injury, and employment legal claims, including...
A St. Clair County jury has awarded $60 million in compensatory damages to Jasmine Watson for the loss of her son, Chance Dean, who died as a result of contracting necrotizing enterocolitis after consuming Mead Johnson’s cow’s milk-based premature infant formula. Case #21-L-1032 Watson...
The Cates Law Firm is pleased to announce that Founding Principal David Cates, Esq. has been named to the 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers list. David is a top-rated lawyer recognized for his accomplishments in personal injury law. David practices complex, nationally recognized cases, including...
Founding Principal David Cates, Esq. is challenging a federal jurisdiction claim by a local health care provider for a case to be heard in U.S. District Court. Mr. Cates and seven class action colleagues allege that Southern Illinois Health Care (SIHC) violated privacy laws through...
The Cates Law firm is pleased to announce that founding principal David Cates has been selected to the 2023 Super Lawyers list for the state of Illinois. This is David’s second year in a row being selected to the Super Lawyers list, after being...
The Madison-St. Clair Record recently highlighted the class action lawsuit filed by attorney David Cates of The Cates Law Firm on behalf of his client against Carrollton Bank alleging unfair and deceptive fee assessment practices. The Complaint sets forth that in October of 2019,...
Attorney David Cates of the Cates Law Firm is representing a former patient of Memorial Hospital of Belleville, alleging that one of its surgeons acted with negligence and carelessness after leaving a medical pad inside of her abdomen during a 2018 procedure. The plaintiff...