Tobin is the Managing Partner of the firm's Chicago office. He handles a wide range of civil litigation for businesses, corporations, professionals, and insurance companies.

Tobin actively leads the firm’s defense of cases venued in Cook Co., IL alleging asbestos exposure or other toxic torts, including product liability and premises liability claims. He regularly serves as lead counsel in the defense and management of complex, multi-party asbestos cases. Tobin’s litigation experience includes defending various types of professionals (e.g., healthcare, legal, and design) in cases alleging malpractice, errors, or omissions. He has also defended employers and governmental entities before administrative agencies and in state and federal courts in actions alleging employment discrimination and civil rights violations. Early in his career, Tobin tried a number of personal injury cases involving motor vehicle accidents or premises liability.

Tobin’s toxic tort defense experience includes the representation of clients in asbestos, talc, silica, manganese/welding rods, benzene, diacetyl and vinyl chloride lawsuits in state and federal courts. His clients have included insulation manufacturers, brake and friction material manufacturers, gasket manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, asbestos mining companies, product distributors, public utilities, premises owners, and construction contractors.

Tobin received his Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, from Bradley University, and his J.D. from Washington University Law School.

“The Evolution of Specific Personal Jurisdiction and Impact on Toxic Tort Litigation,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly Monograph (2022)

"The Attorney-Client Relationship," chapter in Illinois Civil Practice: Opening the Case, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (2009, 2015)

“Defendant Corporate Representative Depositions in Toxic Tort Cases”
Illinois Defense Counsel Webinar 2022

“When Does Zealous Advocacy Cross the Line?”
Law Bulletin Ethics Seminar 2018

“A Judicial Roundtable Discussion on Mass Toxic Tort Litigation”
Moderator, Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel (“IDC”) Spring Symposium 2017

“Bare Metal and Replacement Parts in Asbestos Cases”
HarrisMartin's Midwest Asbestos Litigation Conference, St. Louis, Missouri 2014

“Concealed Carry: How Township Government Will Be Affected”
Illinois Township Attorneys Association 12th Annual Educational Seminar 2014

“The Effect of the Illinois Concealed Carry Act on Employers”
Heyl Royster Seminar/Webinar, Peoria 2013

“General Practice Seminar - Trial”
Peoria County Bar Association 2010

“Personal Injury Practice Update 2008 - Liability Update”
Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2008

• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent
• Selected as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois for Toxic Torts Defense Law. Only five percent of lawyers in the state are named as Leading Lawyers.
• Named to the 2011 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars list. The Super Lawyers Rising Stars selection process is based on peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 2.5 percent of Illinois lawyers under the age of 40 or who have been practicing 10 years or less earn this designation.

• Illinois Equal Justice Foundation (Board of Directors)
• The Chicago Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel
• American Bar Association - Toxic Tort and Environmental Law and Litigation Sections
• Bar Association of the Central and Southern Federal Districts of Illinois
• Illinois State Bar Association (past steering committee member of Employment Law Section)
• State Bar of Wisconsin
• Peoria County Bar Association (past Co-Chair of Young Lawyer Committee)

• State Courts of Illinois and Wisconsin
• United States District Court, Central District of Illinois
• United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
• United States District Court, Northern District of Indiana
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, MDL 875 Asbestos Litigation

• Chicago Bar Foundation, Investing in Justice, Campaign Leadership Team
• Greater Chicago Food Depository, Lunchtime to End Hunger, Campaign Team Leader
• United Way Pillars Society, past member
• American Cancer Society, past committee board member
• Children's Hospital of Illinois, past development board member