Eugene J. Schiltz
Member

Phone: (312) 606-8622
Email: [email protected] 
Education
·   J.D., University of Chicago 
·   B.S., with high honors, Illinois State     
    University  


Bar Admissions
·   Illinois
·   U.S. Supreme Court
·   U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
·   U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
·   U.S. District Court, Northern District of       Illinois 
·   U.S. District Court, Central District of         Illinois 
·   U.S. District Court, Eastern District of     
    Wisconsin 
·   U.S. District Court, Northern District of       Indiana


Recognition
·   Best Lawyers in America 
    (2011-2017)
·   Illinois Super Lawyers
    (2009-2010, 2017)


Professional Associations
·   American Bar Association 
·   Illinois State Bar Association
·   Chicago Bar Association 

 
Recent Publications 
·   Civil Liability for Aiding and Abetting: 
    Should Lawyers be Privileged to Assist    
    their Clients’ Wrongdoing?, 29 Pace Law 
    Review 75 (2008) 
Eugene J. Schiltz is a seasoned commercial litigator and trial lawyer with extensive appellate experience.  

Complex Commercial Litigation 

Mr. Schiltz concentrates his practice in complex business litigation, with an emphasis on legal and accounting malpractice, commercial fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and related commercial torts.  For example, Mr. Schiltz: 
  • Litigated numerous high stakes legal and accounting malpractice lawsuits.    
  • Represented the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System in far-ranging litigation related to its direct placement investment program.
  • Represented the officers and directors of more than a dozen boards of directors of failed banks in connection with claims asserted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company. 
  • Litigated many major class action lawsuits.

Appellate Litigation 

Mr. Schiltz regularly handles appeals in both state and federal court.  A keen writer, Mr. Schiltz is often asked to advise other attorneys regarding appellate briefing and strategy.  In his own cases, Mr. Schiltz has argued before the United States Courts of Appeal for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits, the Illinois Appellate Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the New York Court of Appeals and the Indiana Court of Appeals.  Mr. Schiltz argued and prevailed in the leading Illinois case on accountant privity issues, Chestnut Corp. v. Pestine, Brinati, Gamer, et al., 281 Ill.App.3d 719 (1996).

Additional Experience

In addition to his litigation practice at Crotty & Schiltz, Mr. Schiltz has served as an Arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Mandatory Arbitration Program since 1990, and he was recently appointed as an arbitrator in the court's new Commercial Arbitration Program.  He also works as an Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall Law School, where he has taught multiple courses since 1988.