Condon & Cook, L.L.C.

Attorneys At Law

Peter W. Schoonmaker

Born 1956 in Evergreen Park, Illinois.  Admitted to the Bar of the State of Illinois, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1980; United States District Court, Central District of Illinois, 1998; and  the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Designated: Leading Lawyers Network: The Top Lawyers, 2005, by The Law Bulletin Publishing Company.

Education:  University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.S. 1977); Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D. with Honors, 1980).

Member:  Chicago Bar Association; C.B.A.  Insurance Law Committee; American Bar Association; A.B.A. Tort Insurance Practice Section; Illinois State Bar Association.

Counsel:  Illinois Chapter of I.A.S.I.U.

Lecturer:  Annual Mortgage Servicing Clinic, Sponsored by the Illinois Mortgage Banker Association, "Mortgagee Claims from the Insurer's Perspective," 1988; Chicago Bar Association Insurance Law Committee, "Mortgagee Claims: An Overview," 1990.  Western Loss Association Spring Seminar, "Mortgagee Claims from the Insurer's Perspective," 1990; 10th and 11th annual I.A.S.I.U. Seminars, "Suspicious First Party Motor Vehicle Bodily Injury Claims: Effective Use of Examination Under Oath," Naples, Florida, 1996, and Tucson, Arizona, 1997; 12th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Seminar, Charlotte, North Carolina, "Interplay of the Examination Under Oath and Forensic Accounting in Advanced Fraud Investigation," September 1997; 13th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Seminar, Toronto, Canada, September 1998; 14th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Conference, Dallas, Texas, and 15th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Conference, Orlando, Florida, "Anatomy of a Fraudulent Bodily Injury Claim;" 18th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Seminar, Lake Buena Vista Florida, September 2003, and 19th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2004, "Mortgage Flipping: What Is It and What Can the Industry Do About It?" 20th Annual I.A.S.I.U. Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, "Public Adjusters: Issues and Conflicts in the Fraud Investigation," September 2005.

Instructor:  N.I.C.B. Advanced S.I.U. Academy.

Author: "Is Insurance Claim Proper for Property Forfeited to Government?" Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Lawyer's Forum, November 26, 1990; "Identification and Investigation of Suspicious First Party Motor Vehicle Bodily Injury Claims," Insurance Fraud Alert, September 1996.

Co-Author with Vincent P. Cook: monthly column, "Insurance Issues," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 1992-present.