When people call us for Illinois criminal attorney referrals, one question we get a lot is, “Do they have a winning record?” There is a perception out there that you can look up an attorney’s record like they are baseball standings on espn.com or something.

The truth is that there are no win/loss records available for criminal defense lawyers in Illinois. And even if they were, they would be incredibly misleading for a couple of reasons.

First off, consider someone like the disgusting Highland Park shooter or any other criminal who is literally caught red handed doing their crime. If

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We stress all of the time the importance of having a lawyer that is narrowly focused in the types of cases that they handle.  A jack of all trades attorney will not have the knowledge of the law you need or the relationships that you need, especially in a tougher case.

I saw a great example of this recently when I was called by a young man who had a felony charge of assaulting a police officer in Chicago.  He was part of the Ferguson protests and apparently things got really heated an he spit in an officer’s
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