Illinois Lawyers James Wargo to Janice Dantes

Firm: Ifmk Law, Ltd.

650 Dundee Rd Ste 475 , Northbrook , Illinois 60062

Practice Areas: State, Local And Municipal Law, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Janaan Hashim

161 N. Clark St. , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Janaan brings nearly 15 years of experience in the areas of criminal defense and civil rights law.  Janaan's civil rights work focuses on protecting constitutional and statutorily protected rights ranging from First Amendment law to Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act and its federal counterpart, the Rehabiliatation Act section 504.  In criminal defense, after working in the trial court and appellate levels, she now specifically focuses on helping people with criminal records use the tools available to remove those records of the past to help them meet their future goals.. Among the most consistent compliments Janaan receives are on her ability to explain legal concepts to her clients, her excellent communications with clients, and her legal acumen to reach her clients' goals.

Firm: Anderson & Boback

20 North Clark Street , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Child Custody & Visitation, Divorce, Family , Divorce & Separation

Appeared on two episodes of Celebrity Justice in September of 2004; Two live interview with the news program which aired world wide relating to a highly contested divorce case involving a celebrity rapper in September of 2004. Radio interivew with Man Cow discussing prenuptial agreements in January 2012. Radio inteview on WGN 720 AM Radio regarding Military Divorce in 2012. Quoted in in an article about prenuptial agreements. Quoted in Reuters online edition / divorce and finance. Janice L. Boback has been certifed as a memberof the Lawyers of Distincion.  The Lawyers of Distinction is recognized as the fastest growing community of distninguished lawyers in the United States.  Membershiph is limited to the top 10% of attorneys in the United States.  Members are accepted based upon objective evalutaion of an attorney's qualifications, license, reputation, experience, and disciplinary history.

Firm: Law Offices of Janice Berman

8130 N Milwaukee Ave , Niles , Illinois 60714

Practice Areas: Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation

JANICE L. BERMAN, JD, built her practice and reputation by serving, representing and protecting the vital and personalized interests of her clients. Practicing for over 20 years, her goal is to provide superior legal advocacy with an eye towards maintaining a fair and affordable fee structure giving each client and case personalized attention.  Her firm has extensive experience in all areas of family law in both Cook and the collar counties. As a member of several professional organizations, she frequently speaks on family law issues. She represents clients at every stage of family law proceedings, from pre- to post-decree, and she dedicates her practice to addressing each client’s unique and essential needs.

2100 Manchester Road, Suite 1616 , Wheaton , Illinois 60187

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Firm: The Law Offices of Janet K. Maxwell-Wickett

1855 Rohlwing Road , Rolling Meadows , Illinois 60008

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

When I started my own practice, my goal was to provide my clients with compassionate, competent legal representation, and open, effective communication. That was and continues to be my goal with each and every client. My practice focuses mainly on family law issues including divorce, parentage, child custody and support, post-decree issues, pre-marital agreements, adoption and guardianship and I am a trained divorce mediator. I also frequently represent clients in domestic violence and order of protection cases, criminal misdemeanor, traffic offense, and landlord/tenant cases.  The divorce process is emotional and life changing and the associated legal process can be daunting. My goal is to listen carefully to my clients, provide them with excellent legal representation, and ease the transition through the divorce process. My philosophy is to reach amicable solutions whenever possible in order to reduce stress, emotional strain, and litigation costs. However, amicable resolutions are not always possible. In those instances, as a trained litigator, my philosophy is to protect the rights of my clients and zealously advocate for their interests.I believe in educating and empowering my clients and assisting them in moving past adversity. I pledge to provide you with competent legal representation and open, accessible communication whether you are involved in a contentious or uncontested family law matter, domestic violence, order of protection, criminal misdemeanor, landlord/tenant or traffic offense matter. I provide a free 30-minute consultation. Please contact me by phone at or email.

Firm: Family Law Solutions Chicago

180 N. LaSalle St , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Working through some of the hardest times in people’s lives and helping them start a new life is why Janet Boyle focuses her practice on family and matrimonial law.. Family law is complicated. The impact on the lives of everyone involved cannot be minimized, but Janet helps her clients discover that life will go on, and in many cases, will be better. Her clients quickly learn they are not on this journey alone, but have a partner and advocate who is personally involved, particularly through the significant events in their cases. It’s rewarding to find the right solution for them whether through mediation, negotiation or litigation.. More than 35 years in the field of family law has solidified Janet’s expertise in helping to prevent family problems and avoid issues catching her clients by surprise. With a Masters in Taxation and superior expertise in the financial implications of divorce, Janet is adept at sorting through complex financial matters that arise during the separation of assets. Divorces involving high-net-worth individuals, business owners, professionals, and executives can become extremely complicated and require her expert level of knowledge and experience.. Janet serves on a number of professional organizations and is a guest speaker at bar associations, law schools, and continuing legal education programs. She also gives back to her community serving on committees and boards of several organizations in the northwest suburbs, including three terms as the Chair of Northwest Community Hospital Foundation Board in Arlington Heights, where she continues in a leadership role.

Firm: Schmidt & Barbrow PC

300 S County Farm Rd Ste F , Wheaton , Illinois 60187

Practice Areas: Litigation

Attorney Janella L. Barbrow concentrates her practice in the defense of tort, civil rights,commercial claims, and in the prosecution and handling of appellate matters. She has handled issues including negligence, municipal liability, Structural Work Act, premises liability, Civil Rights Act, Human Rights Act, product liability, Dram Shop Act, aviation, breach of contract, employment matters, gas explosion, patent infringement, and warehouseman's liability actions.. Ms. Barbrow has participated in all aspects of pretrial work, discovery, and trial preparation. Handled cases in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and other federal courts throughout the country. She has also handled cases in the Circuit Courts of Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, LaSalle, McHenry, Ogle, Peoria, Warren, Whiteside, and Will Counties, and before the Illinois Human Rights Commission.

Firm: Nagle & Giese, P.C.

400 S. Knoll St. , Wheaton , Illinois 60187

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Jane E. Nagle is a founding partner of Nagle & Giese, P.C., and she concentrates her practice primarily in the areas of divorce and family law in DuPage, Cook, Will, Kane, Kendall, Lake and surrounding collar counties. Over the years, Jane has handled numerous pre-decree and post-decree divorce cases as well as paternity, child support enforcement, and contested cases involving the allocation of parental decision-making and parenting time. Jane is also experienced in handling chapter 7 bankruptcy cases as well as negotiating various types of unsecured debts, obtaining excellent settlements for her clients facing financial hardship.. Through her years of experience, Jane has developed the ability to determine the most effective strategy to help her individual clients reach their goals and desired outcomes in their cases. She understands that some cases require an aggressive litigation strategy, while others benefit from and are quickly resolved with skillful negotiation and settlement discussions. Jane is compassionate toward her clients as she helps them navigate through the litigation process.. Jane has been named an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star for six consecutive years, a designation reserved for the top 2.5% of attorneys under forty years old in Illinois and was named an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2024 and 2025. Jane currently serves as the Chair on the Standing Committee on the Illinois Bar Journal Editorial Board, is on the board of the DuPage County Bar Association, is a member of the DCBA Bar Journal editorial board and the former Chair of the DuPage County Bar Association Family Law Section.  Jane is an active member of the DuPage County and Illinois State Bar Associations.. Jane received her law degree from DePaul University College of Law and graduated from Indiana University – Bloomington with her Bachelor of Arts in both International Studies and Spanish with a minor in Italian. During law school, Jane worked as an extern for the Honorable Judge Michael Panter in both the Domestic Relations and Law Divisions. Jane was a member of and associate editor for the DePaul Law Review in which she had an article published in 2012.

Firm: Jan L. Kodner & Associates

53 W Jackson Blvd , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Lawyers,

675 N North Ct Ste 245 , Palatine , Illinois 60067

Practice Areas: Tax

Jim was born in Chicago and raised in Mount Prospect, Illinois, where he graduated from Prospect High School.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at The University Of Illinois-Urbana in 1979, and then obtained his C.P.A. Certificate in 1980.  In 1984, he earned his law degree from The John Marshall Law School.  Jim is a long time resident of Palatine, Illinois, where he lives with his wife.  They are the proud parents of four adult children and one grandson.. Jim concentrates his law practice in the areas of estate planning, business law, taxation, real estate and personal injury matters. He represents clients throughout the northeast region of Illinois, including the greater Chicago land area.  He has dedicated his law practice to helping his clients make difficult decisions, usually, during difficult times.  Jim’s approach is to provide his clients with a broad range of alternative solutions, from which the client chooses the best solution to accomplish their goals.  Jim is a long-time member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Bar Association.. Jim has a keen interest in the areas of astronomy and earth science education.  For many years, he served as the Treasurer and as a Director on the Executive Board of the Planetary Studies Foundation, Ltd. (), a not-for-profit science education foundation.  Jim taught Seasonal Constellations and other Astronomy related courses at William Rainey Harper College, in Palatine, Illinois, for eleven years.  He has volunteered at the Karl G. Henize Observatory, located at the William Rainey Harper College, since the Observatory opened in 1990.  Also, Jim discovered the "Marengo Meteorite", the seventh meteorite ever found in the State of Illinois, (?code=15415).. Jim provides high quality legal services to today's price conscious clients, and he provides the personalized attention needed to establish and maintain effective attorney-client relationships.

Firm: Jamie M. Trapp & Associates

205 W Wacker Drive , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Firm: Lowis & Gellen

200 West Adams Street , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice

Firm: Meyer Capel, A Professional Corporation

306 W Church St , Champaign , Illinois 61820

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

Jamie A. Propps joined Meyer Capel in February of 2021 and earned shareholder status in January of 2022. She is a significant contributor to the firm’s litigation services practice group, focuses the majority of her practice on criminal and traffic defense, and serves as a mentor in the firm's attorney mentoring program.. Upon graduation, Jamie accepted a position as a staff attorney with the State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in the Second District of Illinois. During this time, Jamie also began teaching at the undergraduate level for Kaplan, Inc. In August of 2006, she became an assistant public defender for the Champaign County Public Defender’s Office. During her tenure there, she successfully defended clients on trial for crimes ranging from DUI/traffic offenses to first degree murder charges. After gaining years of felony trial experience and serving as the Public Defender’s representative in the Champaign County Drug Court program, she was named First Assistant Public Defender in October 2016. In 2017, Jamie entered into private practice where she has concentrated in criminal and civil litigation at trial and appellate levels.

Firm: Mosser & Eisenmenger Law, LLC

525 South Tyler Road, Suite Q2 , Saint Charles , Illinois 60174

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: The Civil Litigation Clinic at Chicago-Kent College of Law

565 W. Adams , Chicago , Illinois 60661

Practice Areas: Class Actions, Consumer Protection, Discrimination, Environmental , Federal

Jamie Franklin is the Director of the Civil Litigation Clinic at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she is a Clinical Professor of Law. Jamie is an advocate for employees, consumers, and other plaintiffs whose rights have been denied. She is dedicated to providing the highest level of legal representation to her clients in cases involving employment discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour law, whistleblower actions, consumer law, class actions, and other complex litigation.

Firm: Kavanagh, Grumley & Gorbold, LLC

111 N Ottawa St , Joliet , Illinois 60432

Practice Areas: Family

Firm: Stephan Zouras, LLP

205 N. Michigan Avenue Suite 2560 , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Class Action

I am a founder and principal of Stephan Zouras, LLC, a Chicago-based law firm concentrating in representing people throughout the United States in class and collective wage and hour litigation, biometric privacy, data privacy and cybersecurity rights, consumer fraud, catastrophic personal injury, and other complex litigation.. During my 28 years of practice, I have been appointed lead or co-lead counsel in more than 100 complex wage and hour class and collective actions which have collectively resulted in a recovery of more than $500 million for hundreds of thousands of individuals nationwide. My published cases exceed 250 decisions from jurisdictions in at least 14 states. I have tried over a dozen major jury trials on behalf of plaintiffs and argued as lead counsel in at least 20 appeals in federal and state courts, including four before the Illinois Supreme Court. In addition to my admission to numerous trial and appellate courts, I am a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.. I am frequently invited as a speaker at national class action litigation and trial seminars, have testified before legislative bodies, and worked on legislation designed to protect worker rights.. I have been named an Illinois "Super Lawyer" in every consecutive year since 2009, a distinction given to no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state.. I serve as co-chair of the Consumer Privacy Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA).. In 2023, the Illinois Bar Foundation recently honored me and my firm with its Champion Award, which is given each year to an attorney “whose professional and public careers set an example to which others aspire.”. Also, I regularly mentor younger and aspiring law students.

Firm: Wylder Corwin Kelly LLP

207 E.Washington St.,Suite 102 , Bloomington , Illinois 61701

Practice Areas: Wrongful Death

Firm: Law Office of Janice A. Dantes

35 East Wacker Drive Suite 650 , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Janice Dantes is a solo practitioner focused on practice areas affecting families namely, estate planning, real estate, family law, and immigration.  As a proud Filipino-American lawyer with humble beginnings at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, she is committed to serving her fellow kababayan with their legal issues.  As a board member of the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Chicago (FALA), she hopes to continue promoting the interests of Filipino-American attorneys and also pave the way for young Filipinos interested in a legal career. Janice completed her undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and received her JD from DePaul University College of Law.  She is also a wife and mother to a wonderful little boy who accompanies her to many of her legal functions.   Janice can be reached by phone at or by email at