Michael S. Feist

Mike Feist has represented injured workers in southern and central Illinois since 1980.

Following graduation from O'Fallon Township High School in O'Fallon, Illinois in 1972, he worked as an underground coal miner along side his father and brother while attending Washington University in St. Louis. Mike graduated from Washington University in 1976 and from the St. Louis University School of Law in 1980.  He is licensed to practice law in both Illinois and Missouri .

Mike is a Fellow in the American Bar Association's College of Worker 's Compensation Lawyers.  He has served as Chairman of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's Workers' Compensation and Workplace Injury Section.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Workplace Injury Law and Advocacy Group.  Mike has also served two terms on the Illinois State Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Section Council and currently serves on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Associations' Workers' Compensation Committee.

As an author and speaker on workers' compensation issues, Mike has advocated the rights of injured workers for over 30 years.  He served as a workers' compensation attorney and counselor for the United Mine Workers of America from 1984 to 1990.  He is a principal shareholder in the firm.