Meet Our Team

• State of Illinois
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
• US District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (General and Trial Bar)

• John Marshall Law School, J.D., cum laude 2002
• DePaul University, B.S., 1999

Dominick Lanzito concentrates his practice in federal litigation, employment litigation, class action litigation, Insurance Regulatory law, civil rights, and acts as general counsel for municipalities. Prior to joining Peterson, Johnson & Murray Chicago LLC, Mr. Lanzito was a partner at mid-sized litigation firm. Mr. Lanzito also served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, gaining experience in torts and civil rights litigation, as well as in criminal prosecution and criminal appeals. During his service as an Assistant State’s Attorney, Mr. Lanzito conducted approximately 150 bench trials on behalf of the state. He also has tried several matters to jury verdict, both in state and federal courts.

His litigation experience includes complex state and federal litigation, as well as dispositive motions and appeals. Notably, Mr. Lanzito has successfully defeated class action and injunctive claims in several matters. He is a member of the Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Apart from litigation, Mr. Lanzito has counseled multiple municipalities with their various legal needs for over a decade. In that vein, he has performed legal services for multiple public utilities and enterprises, including an electrical transmission, distribution, and generation utility, water and water reclamation utilities, municipal technology park, municipal landfill, municipal railroad, and municipal airport. During the course of representing municipalities, Mr. Lanzito has been lead counsel for redevelopment agreements, Tax Increment Finance (“TIF”) agreements, real estate transactions and a transaction of almost $20 million, involving a municipality and two publicly traded companies.

Mr. Lanzito has investigated numerous regulatory complaints of misappropriation of funds by financial companies and their executives. Further, he has been involved in transactions that involved distressed companies due to misappropriation of funds. As such, he is familiar with identifying inappropriate transfers of funds and breaches of fiduciary responsibilities by corporate executives.

• Federal Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• Insurance Regulatory Law
• Civil Rights
• Municipal Law