David Abels

David Abels is a law partner at Abels & Annes, P.C. concentrating on personal injury, auto accident, premises liability, and wrongful death cases. He often handles bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, motorcycle crashes, truck collisions, and many other areas of personal injury law. He has successfully collected millions of dollars for his clients and has focused on handling personal injury cases since 1997.

From 2016-2023, Dave has been on the Top 100 Lawyer List published by Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters. There are more than 90,000 attorneys in Illinois, so the selection places him in approximately the top one-tenth of one percent. Further, Dave has been a Super Lawyer every year since 2014. This distinction is for the top five percent of attorneys in our state.

Additionally, Dave has a “10.0 Superb” personal injury lawyer rating from AVVO, a legal website that rates lawyers based on overall legal experience.

Dave is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Membership in the Million Dollars Advocates Forum is for attorneys who have won million-dollar verdicts, awards, and settlements. Membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum is for lawyers who have acted as counsel in at least one multi-million dollar verdict, award, or settlement.

Dave was born in Chicago and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. He graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1987. He was an avid hockey player and later became captain of Evanston’s high school hockey team.

In college, Dave continued to play hockey for the University of Wisconsin at Madison on the junior varsity team. In 1991, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UW Madison.

After college, Dave continued his education at