Progressive Law Group

Frank Jablonski founded Progressive Law Group LLC in 2004. He focuses on trials and related work (litigation, mediation, and arbitration). He has represented classes of persons harmed by corporate malfeasance, communities, non-profit organizations, businesses and business shareholders, and individuals, including both individual consumers and landowners subject to condemnation "takings" by utility companies. He has a broad legal and policy background, having worked on legislation and rules as a lobbyist for environmental and industry organizations. He has been honored twice for his work on public policy issues through Wisconsin Legislative Council Special Committees (1985 and 1993). He has also managed small and medium businesses, including a wood products manufacturing division within a Wisconsin manufacturing, distribution and energy services Company, and a subsidiary of Puget Sound Power and Light Company, an investor-owned utility. Over the last 27 years he has been lead counsel in administrative, regulatory, trial and appellate court actions too numerous to recount. These have involved both individual and class consumer matters, ranging from misrepresentation to telecommunications to contaminated pet food. They have also included environmental matters such as regulated industries, energy facilities development and impacts, (e.g. planning dockets, power plants, transmission lines, stray voltage, EMF), licensing and permitting, transportation, land use, and business disputes (contracts, fair competition, stockholder disputes, and the duties of owners to each other and to the shared enterprise). (J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1983).

Mark A. Bulgarelli is a dedicated professional who concentrates his practice on the litigation of class action, consumer fraud, antitrust, employment, and contract disputes. Additionally, Mr. Bulgarelli provides estate planning and administration services to families. Mr. Bulgarelli has successfully prosecuted claims on behalf of individuals and governments in state court, federal courts, bankruptcy courts, appellate courts, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He is admitted to practice law in Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Bulgarelli received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and was a member of the university's Honors College. Mr. Bulgarelli received his law degree and a Certificate in International Trade and Development Law from Valparaiso University were he was also a member of the law school's prestigious Jessup International Moot Court Team.

Ilan Chorowsky concentrates his practice in multi-state class action litigation of employee, consumer and antitrust claims. He has served as counsel in numerous cases across the country resulting in recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Chorowsky has also represented Indian tribes in a variety of litigation, employment and environmental matters, and has successfully prosecuted actions and defended clients in commercial and contract litigation. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Bar Public Interest Law Section, and has lectured at the John Marshall Law School, the University of Wisconsin Schools of Law and Medicine, and the Wisconsin State Bar Convention. He clerked for the Wisconsin Department of Justice Civil Litigation Unit, and was employed by The Washington Post, the National Endowment for the Arts, and as a researcher for the Smithsonian Institute Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars prior to practicing law. He has worked with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Legal Clinic, and served on the ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A. – Hon., J.D.), Mr. Chorowsky presently serves as President of the Illinois Chapter of the Wisconsin Bar Association.

Anita Dellaria graduated from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago in
January, 2010. She received a CALI award for her course work in Fair Housing Law and served gratefully as an intern in The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic where she worked on cases involving housing discrimination. She also served as an extern for the Honorable Thomas P. Quinn of the Circuit Court of Cook County and as an intern with the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Law Department. Anita earned her law degree while working full-time as a high school English teacher. She is a native Chicagoan, a poet and associate editor of the Tribeca Poetry Review.

Lindsey Goldberg is a recent graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where she served as a fellow at the nonprofit organization Citizen Works, which advocated for consumer rights in contracts. Lindsey served as a law clerk at the Cleveland firm McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal and Liffman, working predominately in the firm's litigation department. She also served as executive editor on Health Matrix legal journal, one of the highest-rated student-run law reviews focusing on health law. Ms. Goldberg carried various duties with Health Matrix and contributed a piece entitled "Born to be Wild - A Legal Analysis of Genetics and Crime." (M.A., Bioethics, 2010, Case Western Reserve University, cum laude; J.D. 2010, Case Western Reserve University)

David Gorodess has extensive experience in civil litigation matters on behalf of plaintiffs including trials and arbitrations. Apart from his trial practice, he has a breadth of experience in real estate law and transactions. He is a graduate of the Hastings College of the Law (1997) and has been licensed to practice law in Illinois and California (inactive).

Sang Yup Lee joined Progressive Law Group in 2009. Sang worked for legal services agencies and defense agencies before and during law school, and interned for the Honorable Judge Mary Yu, with the Superior Court in Washington state. During law school, he worked as an Article Editor for the Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, and he served his law school community as Co-President of the Public Interest Law Forum and President of the Asian Law Student Association. J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School, 2009

Jeff W. Nichols has tried civil and criminal cases in federal and state courts since 1991, including extensively representation of indigent defendants both as a state of Wisconsin public defender and as a private attorney. He has also represented clients in the Wisconsin State Court of Appeals and the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a currently a member of the board of the law office practice management section for the Wisconsin state bar. (J.D.-1991, University of Wisconsin).

Krista Ralston is an emerita clinical law professor who has specialized in criminal and civil litigation for more than 25 years. Before becoming a full-time clinical professor and program director at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1990, she practiced law in both the private and public sectors. Her practice experience includes a federal clerkship with Chief Judge Barbara Crabb (W. Dist. of Wis.), two years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and several years in private practice. She has litigated hundreds of cases in both state and federal courts, including a variety of complex, multi-party cases. She was also "of counsel" in several class action suits brought by the former Youth, Policy and Law Center in Madison, WI. As clinical law professor and program director of a trial-level criminal defense clinical program, Ralston specialized in teaching litigation technique and theory through live-client clinical supervision and classroom courses such as trial and pre-trial advocacy and evidence. She also coached mock trial teams in regional and national competitions, presented papers at national and international conferences, taught as a visiting professor in Giessen, Germany, and published articles in legal journals. She has been active in national, state and local organizations advocating for the disenfranchised, including sitting on various professional and community-action boards of directors, and is the recipient of numerous law school and professional awards. J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979).

Carmen Rumbaut, practiced law in Texas as a plaintiff-side civil rights attorney representing clients in class actions and individual employment discrimination lawsuits in both state and federal courts. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Wisconsin Association of Mediators. She is fluent in Spanish. (J.D., 1989,University of Texas School of Law).

Alex Stepick is a recent graduate of Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis. Alex was a graduate fellow with the U.S. Congress’ Committee on the Judiciary, and a clerk with the United States Department of Justice. While in law school Alex was a member of Washington University Law’s international moot court program, winning the “Best Advocate” award, the highest individual honor, at the Niagara International Moot Court Competition in Toronto, Canada in 2009. Prior to joining Progressive Law Group Alex completed a post-graduate fellowship working as a Staff Attorney at the Florida International University’s Immigration & Human Rights Clinic in Miami, FL. (J.D., 2010, Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis; B.A., 2006, The University of Chicago).

Adrienne M. Zibelman brings more than 20 years of legal experience to Progressive Law Group. She acquired her legal skills while specializing in the areas of business litigation and corporate transactional work, compliance and health care both as in-house counsel for United Health Group and in private practice in the metropolitan Chicago area. A seasoned litigator, Ms. Zibelman has represents scores of corporations and individuals in complex civil litigation. She also employs a breadth of experience in real estate, labor, probate, and business matters. Adrienne's range of clients has included consumers, hotel, teamsters, and plumbers unions, small businesses, and homeowners in foreclosure. She formerly served as
editor at Wolters Kluwer, one of the largest legal publishing companies in the world. Adrienne earned a Juris Doctorate and a Masters of Law in Health from DePaul University School of Law.

Chicago Office                                 Madison Office
505 N. LaSalle Blvd. Ste. 350             354 W. Main Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654                       Madison, Wisconsin 53703
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