David W. McArdle

David W. McArdle concentrates his practice in the areas of local government and construction law. McArdle has been a featured speaker at numerous seminars in both fields, and he has written extensively on these issues. He is a former chair of the Local Government Section Counsel of the Illinois State Bar Association.

McArdle is an adviser to the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association and its members on construction-related matters. He is the author of Construction Law Road Map, a regularly updated handbook for contractors and small business owners. The handbook seeks to clarify critical legal issues that often plague business leaders. It was published and distributed by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, and it is now available to the public.

Over the course of his career, McArdle’s practice also has encompassed other areas of law such as:

• personal injury
• insurance defense
• election, campaign and political law
• eminent domain
• class actions
• utility law
• employment law
• zoning, planning and land use
• civil litigation
• business and transactional matters

McArdle, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, attended Indiana University and graduated from John Marshall Law School.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Illinois State Bar Association (former Local Government Law Section Council chair)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Author, “A Victory and Caution for Administrative Hearings of Automated Red-Light Violations,” ZRFM Local Government Law Newsletter, Feb. 4, 2014
• Speaker, “Redeveloping Distressed Properties,” Illinois Municipal League Annual Conference, Chicago, October 2013
• Speaker, “Effective Operations and Governance,” Illinois Municipal League Annual Conference, Chicago, October 2013
• Author, “Two New Laws Regarding Automobile Insurance,” ZRFM Local Government Law Newsletter, Sept. 3, 2013
• Author, “Two Illinois House Bills on Gun Control Miss the Target Vote,” ZRFM Local Government Law Newsletter, April 25, 2013
• Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, “Chicago’s Spire Remains Hole in the Ground,” May 1, 2012
• Author, Construction Law Roadmap – 2011, published by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, 2011
• Author, Construction Law Roadmap – 2009, published by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, 2009
• Speaker, Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Convention, Phoenix, February 2008
• Author, Construction Law Roadmap – 2008, published by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, 2008
• Author, Construction Law Roadmap – 2007, published by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, 2007
• Author, “A newly recognized defense to disconnection petitions,” Local Government Law, March 2006
• Author, “The Process of Siting a Municipal Waste Transfer Station or Landfill,” Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law, October 2003 (and Local Government Law, August 2003)
• Co-author with E. Regan Daniels Shepley, “The unintended ramifications of the SWANCC decision: Local regulations of isolated waters,” Local Government Law, May 2001
• Author, “Continued Expansion of Administrative Adjudication Authority,” Administrative Law, September 1999 (and Local Government Law, July 1999)
• Author, “Continued Expansion of Administrative Adjudication Authority,” Illinois Municipal Review, Illinois Municipal League, March 1999
• Speaker, “Miller Act,” Illinois Road Builders Association, 1999
• Author, “Prosecution of City Offenses in City Hall,” Local Government Law, newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association Section on Local Government Law, February 1998
• Author, “The Supreme Court’s Ratchet on Political Firings Tightens,” Local Government Law, newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association Section on Local Government Law, August 1996
• Author, “Stopping Illegal Sump Pump Hookups,” Local Government Law, newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association Section on Local Government Law, February 1994

HONORS AND AWARDS

For several years, McArdle has been recognized by his Illinois peers as a Leading Lawyer and a Super Lawyer in a variety of practice areas.