About Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas Navigato earned his Juris Doctor from The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law after finishing undergraduate research in psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Those two faculties formed his early strategy to law. They gave him study room experience in both legal doctrine and human behavior.
He began his legal career within the mid-1990s. In 1994 he joined Laraia & Hubbard, P.C. as an associate. He later labored as an affiliate at William F. Bochte & Associates. By 2003 he was named a companion at BOCHTE, KUZNIAR, & NAVIGATO P.C., a move that put him in a leadership role inside a small-firm placing. He has served on a nearby admissions panel, sitting on the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second Judicial District from 2013 through 2015.
Navigato is licensed to practice in Illinois and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Those credentials have knowledgeable the types of things he takes on. His practice knowledge spans pretrial work, motion practice and court appearances in each state and federal boards. He has treated matters that required awareness to procedural element and an ability to prepare cases for trial when important.
His expert affiliations include memberships in the Illinois Bar Association (noted since 1993), the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and local bar teams such as the Kane County and DuPage County bar associations. Those associations have kept him related to developments in Illinois practice and to colleagues throughout diverse practice areas.
Colleagues describe Navigato as a practitioner who approaches files methodically. He has labored in each associate and partner roles over a multi-decade profession, giving him familiarity with the demands of operating cases and managing client expectations. He has moved from early affiliate positions into a partnership role and has remained lively in bar things to do and local legal management.
Today he continues to symbolize clients in Illinois courts and in the federal district in Chicago. His current practice facilities on civil litigation in state courts and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
