• Firm represents persons charged with serious crimes in state and federal courts throughout the Midwest. Appellate practice is nationwide.

• • Firm has the rare distinction of having won major criminal cases at every level of the state and federal court systems, including wins (obtaining the reversal of his clients' criminal convictions) in the United States Supreme Court (drug conspiracy conviction), the Illinois Supreme Court (first degree murder), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (first degree murder) and the Illinois Appellate Court (two first degree murders and one attempted murder). The appeals that he has briefed and argued have helped change the law and advance the cause of justice (See significant cases).

  • • Represents high-profile defendants and the indigent, all with equal vigor. Current clients include former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Shawali Khan. 

    • • Expert on mental health defenses related to post-traumatic stress disorder. Won two separate acquittals using the rarely-successful insanity defense on behalf of refugees suffering from the effects of past torture and trauma in their country of origin. 

Firm represents persons charged with serious crimes in state and federal courts throughout the Midwest. Appellate practice is nationwide.

• Firm has the rare distinction of having won major criminal cases at every level of the state and federal court systems, including wins (obtaining the reversal of his clients' criminal convictions) in the United States Supreme Court (drug conspiracy conviction), the Illinois Supreme Court (first degree murder), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (first degree murder) and the Illinois Appellate Court (two first degree murders and one attempted murder). The appeals that he has briefed and argued have helped change the law and advance the cause of justice (See significant cases).

• • Represents high-profile defendants and the indigent, all with equal vigor. Current clients include former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Shawali Khan. 

  • • Expert on mental health defenses related to post-traumatic stress disorder. Won two separate acquittals using the rarely-successful insanity defense on behalf of refugees suffering from the effects of past torture and trauma in their country of origin. 

Firm has the rare distinction of having won major criminal cases at every level of the state and federal court systems, including wins (obtaining the reversal of his clients' criminal convictions) in the United States Supreme Court (drug conspiracy conviction), the Illinois Supreme Court (first degree murder), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (first degree murder) and the Illinois Appellate Court (two first degree murders and one attempted murder). The appeals that he has briefed and argued have helped change the law and advance the cause of justice (See significant cases).

• Represents high-profile defendants and the indigent, all with equal vigor. Current clients include former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Shawali Khan. 

• • Expert on mental health defenses related to post-traumatic stress disorder. Won two separate acquittals using the rarely-successful insanity defense on behalf of refugees suffering from the effects of past torture and trauma in their country of origin. 

Represents high-profile defendants and the indigent, all with equal vigor. Current clients include former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Shawali Khan. 

• Expert on mental health defenses related to post-traumatic stress disorder. Won two separate acquittals using the rarely-successful insanity defense on behalf of refugees suffering from the effects of past torture and trauma in their country of origin. 

Expert on mental health defenses related to post-traumatic stress disorder. Won two separate acquittals using the rarely-successful insanity defense on behalf of refugees suffering from the effects of past torture and trauma in their country of origin.