Click Here To Enlarge KEVIN M. PHILLIPS Kevin M. Phillips is a partner with Fisher Kanaris, P.C. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Finance from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1993 and received his Juris Doctor Degree from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois in 1996. Mr. Phillips is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois and the Federal District Court for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois. Mr. Phillips has also been admitted pro hac vice in numerous state and federal jurisdictions throughout the United States. Mr. Phillips' practice is concentrated in the areas of warehouse legal liability (including property loss, enforcement of warehousemen liens, and review of storage contracts), cargo losses (including trucking, railroad, and waterway), professional liability, construction litigation, and subrogation matters. Mr. Phillips represents warehousemen, shippers, carriers, freight forwarders, architects, engineers, property owners, contractors, subcontractors, in tort, contract, bailment, warranty and statutory-based actions. Mr. Phillips successfully defended a warehouse owner in a trial in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Plaintiffs were depositors who had paper products in a dry storage warehouse that was destroyed in a fire and Plaintiffs alleged that the warehouse violated applicable building codes by not having automatic sprinklers and that the warehouse owner was negligent for not having adequate physical security for the building. Plaintiffs were seeking $5.4 million and after the enforcement of the suit limitation provision and the damage limitation provision in the contract and three days of trial, a favorable settlement was negotiated on behalf of the warehouse owner. Most recently, Mr. Phillips conducted a trial in Minnesota where he represented a food recycling facility. There was a fatal and catastrophic explosion involving manufacturing equipment that destroyed the facility and the products manufactured and stored within the facility. Mr. Phillips was successful in recovering in excess of $1 million dollars for the food recycling facility. Several of Mr. Phillips' other cases in his litigation career have involved defending warehousemen against claims involving: chemical contamination of food grade products stored in a newly constructed 600,000 square foot warehouse, ammonia exposure to food grade products stored in an underground refrigerated facility, $100 million fire at wine storage facility, mysterious disappearance of seafood at large refrigerated distribution center, of infestation of products involving multiple distribution centers, improper record keeping claim against human blood storage facility, food spoliation claim involving alleged improper refrigeration by warehouseman, claim by cocoa manufacturer against warehouseman for cross contamination of product from spices stored nearby, several different inventory shortage claims against distribution centers, and defending several product damage claims against warehousemen as a result of natural disasters. In addition to Mr. Phillips’ litigation practice, he has become involved in drafting, negotiating and reviewing warehousing and transportation documents, including warehouse receipt, bills of lading, freight contracts, standard contract terms and conditions, security agreements, and tariffs. Mr. Phillips also has experience instituting and enforcing warehousemen’s liens and the recovery of unpaid storage charges. Mr. Phillips is a member of several warehouse associations, including The International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW), the Warehouse Education Research Council (WERC), and The International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA) where he serves as Claims and Litigation Counsel for the Association and its members.