Ep 230 | Howard Ankin | Passion, Purpose, and a Family Tradition of Justice in Chicagoland
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 230 welcomes Howard Ankin, Owner of Ankin Law and a prominent personal injury attorney in the Chicagoland area. A third-generation lawyer, Howard reflects on growing up in a family deeply rooted in the legal profession, often spending school breaks accompanying his father to court. Many of his clients today are children and grandchildren of those his father and grandfather once represented. Howard shares how he found his own path within the legal world, building a practice centered on personal injury, product liability, and mass torts. With a deep passion for justice and an unwavering commitment to his community, Howard has dedicated his career to continuing the Ankin family tradition—providing trusted, compassionate, and superior legal support to those in need. This is a powerful story of legacy, purpose, and a lifelong devotion to the law.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:17.0 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:26.0 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories Podcast with Benny Gold. Today we welcome Howard Ankin, owner at Anken |
| 0:43.4 | law focusing on personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, workers comp, and products |
| 0:51.1 | liability in the Chicagoland area and all over Illinois. |
| 0:55.0 | Howard, how are you? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm good. Thanks for having me, Benny. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, pleasure to have you on. |
| 1:01.0 | I know you have a lot of experience. |
| 1:03.0 | You're a seasoned attorney. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm looking forward to getting some wisdom and hearing your stories, so thanks for being here. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, you know, just ask my wife, Tracy, and you might not get that much wisdom. |
| 1:12.6 | Okay, well, we'll see about that. |
| 1:14.6 | So let's just kick it right off, your third-generation lawyer. |
| 1:19.6 | Tell us, like, first of all, tell us where you're from and what it was like growing up in a family where the law was an everyday part of life. |
| 1:30.2 | Oh, well, we could be here for days then, Betty. |
| 1:31.2 | Sorry, we got some time. |
| 1:31.9 | I got time. |
| 1:35.5 | I grew up just outside the city. |
| 1:42.4 | I grew up just outside the city limits of Chicago and like the first suburb north of the city. |
| 1:50.2 | My father was a lawyer and my grandfather was a lawyer, but on my mom's side. So I'm the firstborn son of the first born grandson, it's the first grandson on both sides. |
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