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Craig L. Sanders

Senior Managing Associate
Chicago
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312.624.6332
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Craig focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters in federal and state courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution.

Craig has extensive experience in fact development, drafting, and motions practice across a wide range of practice areas, including financial institutions, products liability, fraud, breach of contract, internal and external investigations, and claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Craig maintains an active pro bono practice as well. Among his cases, he has represented low-income renters in landlord-tenant disputes, prisoners appealing for post-conviction relief, and refugees fleeing violence in Central America and seeking asylum in the United States.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Craig served for over 10 years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force as a Weapon Systems Officer in the F-15E Strike Eagle.

  • Litigation
  • Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 2017, J.D.
    • cum laude
    • Development Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
  • University of Georgia, 2002, BBA, Finance
  • Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • Listed, Illinois Super Lawyers - Rising Stars, Business Lit, 2025
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