Greensfelder Expands Southern Illinois Office with Addition of Paul Petruska
Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., is pleased to announce the continued growth of its Southern Illinois office with the addition of Paul E. Petruska as counsel in the firm’s Litigation practice group.
Based in Belleville, the Southern Illinois office serves the firm’s clients across the Metro East area, including the eastern suburbs of St. Louis and numerous Illinois counties.
Petruska has extensive litigation and trial experience, as well as a focus on estate planning and corporate work involving small businesses. He has served as outside general counsel, assisting clients in drafting safety, employment and document retention policies, and managing human resources matters. His litigation experience includes matters related to transportation, product liability, employment, construction, personal injury, commercial catastrophic property damage, and toxic torts.
Prior to joining Greensfelder, Petruska was an attorney with the Paul Eric Law Office, LLC, most recently focusing on estate planning and corporate formation services related to circumstances surrounding COVID-19. Previously, he was the chief trial attorney for a large commercial insurer’s major case unit and a partner at a boutique litigation firm.
Petruska received his J.D. (cum laude) from St. Louis University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) from St. Louis University.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of Greensfelder’s Southern Illinois office with attorneys who serve clients in the Metro East communities and work closely with Greensfelder’s lawyers based in the firm’s St. Louis and Chicago offices. The Southern Illinois office provides services across all of the firm’s practice areas, with particular emphasis on serving the legal and business needs of closely held businesses, high net worth families and individuals, banks and other financial services companies and organizations, and diverse real estate and litigation clients. Its attorneys strive to further the firm’s commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion and racial justice by taking active roles in community leadership, legal aid initiatives, and other civic engagement.
Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., founded in 1895, is a full-service law firm with offices in St. Louis, Chicago and Southern Illinois. Greensfelder offers comprehensive legal solutions for clients locally, nationally and internationally. Areas of practice include business services; communications and media; construction; educational, religious and tax-exempt organizations; employee benefits; employment and labor; energy; franchising and distribution; health care; intellectual property; litigation; real estate; securities and financial services; and trusts and estates. Find out more at www.greensfelder.com.
