Member of the board of the Academy of Family Mediators. Chair of the Social Work Mediators Committee of the National Association of Social Workers. Specializes in mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution. Trained mediator, serves as arbitrator for the Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program. Volunteer mediator for the Center for Conflict Resolution.
Practice encompases a broad range of commercial litigation matters.
Joel N. Shapiro, Esq. - senior conference attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Conducts mediations in civil appeals and administers the court's mandatory settlement conference program. The Honorable Robert R. Thomas - justice, Supreme Court of the State of Illinois for the Second District. Judge of the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District. Acting chief judge for the Circuit Court of DuPage County.