Top Internet Lawyers in ZIP 60603 | 2 available

Firm: Alter and Preece

19 South LaSalle Street 1650  606 , Chicago , Illinois 60603

Practice Areas: Copyrights,Intellectual Property ,Internet ,Trademarks

Firm: The Toney Law Firm, LLC

105 W. Adams Street , Chicago , Illinois 60603

Practice Areas: Child Abuse, Criminal Defense , Drug Crimes, DUI/DWI, Internet , DUI & DWI

Sarah has been representing defendants in cases ranging from misdemeanors through reckless homicides for the past 18 years.  She was an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law for 13 years where she taught Legal Writing, as well as helped run the Expungement clinic where students represented real clients and appeared at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse.. In 2020, she was appointed by the Governor of Illinois to the Forensic Science Task Force as the only private lawyer to examine the efficiency of Illinois crime labs.  In 2016, she was accepted into the month-long Trial Lawyers College, and in 2019, was asked to join the faculty.. In 2014, Sarah became a Charter Member of the DUI Defense Lawyers Association where she served on the Board of Directors. In 2018, she was appointed to the Justice Foundation, the charitable arm of the DUI Association, which helps fundraise and award scholarships to seminars to lawyers in need, and she still serves on the Foundation today.. Sarah was named Young Lawyer of the Year in 2014 by the Illinois State Bar Association. She is AV rated Preeminent lawyer by Martindale Hubble. In the past two years, she has appeared on Court TV and NBC 10 pm News to discuss current criminal cases, and been named a Top 50 Woman Lawyer by Super Lawyers, and a Top 100 Lawyer by Super Lawyers. She also served as mentor to another female lawyer with the Commission on Professionalism in 2016-2017.. Sarah frequently serves as a guest speaker at John Marshall Law School, and has authored a chapter in the IICLE handbook for DUIs, most recently in 2020. She is on the board of the IL Bar Foundation and served on the Lawyers Care Committee, helping lawyers and their families in need, especially during Covid where she participated in awarding 50 grants to struggling lawyers. She also served on the Gala Committee for the IBF, helping to plan and raise funds for the annual fundraiser.. Sarah has also attended countless seminars from science classes to learn blood testing in DUI and drug cases, to breathalyzer classes working hands on with the machines that IL uses to breahalyze drivers, to DNA classes with the expert from the Amanda Knox trial.  She has gone through the same officer training as police officers with regard to administering Field Sobriety Tests, which is very useful in every DUI case when an officer testifies how those tests were performed on the client.. Sarah was a featured attorney on the radio show Money for Lunch. Listen here:. It is important that you hire a good lawyer as soon as you can after your arrest. In many cases, there are things that should be done before your first court date, lie file motions or request the preservation of evidence that might be destroyed within a few days.  Give Sarah a call for a free consultation, and read her reviews below.