Louis Cairo
About Louis Cairo
Louis C. Cairo is the managing partner and owner of GWC Injury Lawyers. The son of an Italian immigrant who ran a union construction company in Northern Illinois, Louis came to the firm with deep respect for construction tradespeople. He received his business degree from Marquette University and earned his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1983. In more than 42 years of practice Louis has been responsible for client recoveries exceeding $500 million, focusing on construction negligence, product liability, trucking fatalities, FELA claims, automobile accidents, slip-and-falls, and catastrophic injuries including traumatic brain injury, paralysis, amputation, and wrongful death. He is a past president of the Society of Trial Lawyers and has served on the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Two of his adult children, Deanna Cairo Arthur and Louis A. Cairo, have joined him at the firm. Louis has been selected to Super Lawyers every year from 2005 through 2026.
Notable case results
For union ironworker who suffered catastrophic injuries in a 20-foot fall at the Fermi Research project in Batavia, IL
(with Louis A. Cairo and Michael D. Fisher) for a union laborer who suffered an internal cranio-cervical disassociation injury
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
