Steven M. Ruffalo


Position
Member

Practice Areas
Business Law
Civil Litigation

Phone: (312) 651-2434
Fax: (312) 651-2499
E-mail: sruffalo@frltd.com

 

Steven M. Ruffalo graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. He began his professional career in the Division General Counsel's office of the Unisys Corporation in 1988 while earning his law degree from the John Marshall School of Law and his Masters in Business Administration from Rosary College. Entering private practice in 1989, he joined a Wheaton, Illinois law firm in which his practice became concentrated in civil litigation involving commercial and business related disputes. Since joining Fuchs & Roselli, Ltd. in 1990, he has been serving the litigation and pre-litigation needs of many small to mid-sized family and closely held business organizations. Having significant experience through litigating and trying a wide range of chancery and law cases in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana (including contract, statutory, business tort, partnership, shareholder, securities and real estate disputes, injunctions resulting from employee covenants and business interference claims, state and federal R.I.C.O. claims, and mortgage and mechanic’s lien foreclosures), Mr. Ruffalo has achieved an “AV” rating (very high to preeminent) among his peers for legal ability, professional reliability, diligence and ethics. Mr. Ruffalo has been admitted to the Federal Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Mr. Ruffalo resides in Glen Ellyn and serves as Assistant Village Attorney for the Village of Hinsdale. Mr. Ruffalo is an active contributor to the DuPage County Bar Association holding the position Chairman of its Labor and Employment Law Committee for 2002-2003, Co-Chair of the Business Law and Practice Committee for 2003-2004, General Counsel for 2004 – 2005, Chairman of the Lawyer Referral and Mediation Service and Director from 2006 until being elected as Third Vice President of the DCBA in 2007. Mr. Ruffalo currently serves as 2nd Vice President and will serve as DCBA President in 2010.