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Manuel Sanchez
Manuel Sanchez
Partner
msanchez@sanchezdh.com

Born: Chicago, IL, 1947

Education:
  • Northern Illinois University, B.A. ('70)
  • University of Pennsylvania, J.D. ('74)

    Admitted:
  • Illinois, Northern District of Illinois (Federal Trial Bar)
  • United States Supreme Court ('89)

    Legal Experience:
  • Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller ('74-87)
  • Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman LLP (Founder '87-present)

    Associations:
  • American, Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Founding member Mexican American Lawyers Assn. and Latin American Bar Assn.
  • Hispanic National Bar Assn. (Sec. '89-92)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel
  • Product Liability Advisory Council
  • Society of Trial Lawyers
  • Trial Lawyers Club of Chicago (Pres. '89)

    Awards:
  • Named by Hispanic Business Magazine as "One of the Nations 100 Most Influential Hispanics" ('93, 94, 95)
  • Named Illinois Hispanic Family of the Year (November '90)
  • Northern Illinois University VALE Award ('00)
  • Received the NBC/ Hispanic Magazine Vida Award for Entrepreneur ('95)
  • Received Raoul Wallenberg International Humanitarian Award in Israel ('98)
  • Salute to Chicago Guiding Light Award ('97)
  • St. Augustine College El Puente Award ('99)
  • 2008 Martindale-Hubbell Highest Peer Review Rating received

    Board of Directors:
  • Benedictine University Board of Trustees ('93-99)
  • Chicago United; Membership
  • Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
  • Children's Memorial Hospital
  • City of Chicago Mayor's Fellows Board
  • Commercial Club of Chicago
  • Creative Printing, Inc.
  • Economic Club of Chicago
  • Executives Club of Chicago
  • Junior Achievement of Chicago
  • Loyola Council of Regents
  • New America Alliance
  • Northern Illinois University, Board of Trustees ('95-present)
  • Northwestern Memorial Foundation
  • Scholarship Chicago
  • Steppenwolf Theater
  • St. Ignatius College Prep (Bd. of Dir.) ('95-'01)
  • University of Illinois-Chicago (Corporate Advisory Board, '94-'04)

    Corporate Board of Directors:
  • Alford Group, Inc. ('95-'06)
  • Metropolitan Bank and Trust ('94-present)
  • Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. ('92-98)

    Seminars:
  • Seminar Planning Committee Member and Presenter for the 2008 DRI Diversity for Success Seminar