Kimball R Anderson

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Kimball Anderson is recognized by Benchmark Litigation USA as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” in the country. He concentrates his practice in complex commercial matters, with specific expertise in consumer class actions, patent litigation, and antitrust investigations. According to a client, "he’s an excellent trial lawyer, he’s able to solve the most difficult problems, and he’s a real go-to guy when you have challenges above and beyond the norm." As reported in the Leading Lawyers Magazine — Business Edition, Kimball is “widely respected in his field by peers, opposing counsel and clients.”

Kimball is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Fellowship in the American College is extended only by invitation, after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of trial advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility, and collegiality. He has tried many complex commercial cases to verdict in state and federal courts around the country and has argued many cases before the federal courts of appeals, including two arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Kimball is recognized as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” in Chambers USA, which has reported in various editions that Kimball “shows excellent judgment and is highly respected by the judiciary,” is “just a great litigator and wonderful in court,” and that he is “a really fine practitioner.” He has been voted by his peers in 2007–2019 as a “Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer.” He is a “Laureate of the Illinois Academy of Lawyers,” is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell®, and is ranked in The Best Lawyers in America© in 2012–2023 for Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Patent Law. Best Lawyers® also recognized Kimball in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021 as “Lawyer of the Year” for Arbitration in Chicago. Leading Lawyers Network has listed Kimball as a “Top 100 Business Lawyer in Illinois” and on its Top 10 lists for Civil Appellate, General Business, and Business Litigators. Benchmark Litigation USA lists Kimball as a “Litigation Star.” Super Lawyers ranked Kimball as one of the nation’s top “Business Litigation” lawyers in 2018. 

Kimball is involved in alternative dispute resolution as an advocate, an arbitrator, and a mediator. He is a “Distinguished Neutral” for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, the country’s leading nonprofit alternative dispute-resolution organization. He has been recommended in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration. He has also served as an expert witness in professional responsibility matters.

Kimball served for many years as Winston & Strawn’s General Counsel and as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Kimball and his wife Karen are the founders of the University of Illinois Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism.