About Christopher M
Christopher M Kennedy has practiced law in Illinois for extra than three decades. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in records from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1986 and received his law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1991. Those educational steps ended in admissions across more than one federal and state courts, milestones that formed a career spent in large part within the Lake County region and the broader Chicago area.
His first public position came as a prosecutor. In 1994 he joined the Lake County State's Attorney's Office. That early knowledge put him in courtroom frequently and offered front-line exposure to felony practice and trial procedure. By the late Nineteen Nineties he shifted into private practice, taking on a broader blend of civil and criminal things in a small workplace setting.
In 2004 he have become a companion at Kennedy Pierson & Strachan, LLP. That position expanded the size of his practice and concerned more complicated litigation and client counseling. He later based the Law Office of Christopher M. Kennedy, P.C., where he handles matters from his personal office. Over the years he has maintained admission to the Illinois Supreme Court and the trial bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, both powerful in 1994.
Federal admissions followed later. He was licensed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2005 and to the United States highest court in 2008. Those credentials permit him to argue at multiple ranges of the federal system and to manage appeals once they turn out to be necessary. He is likewise an active member of nearby and state bar teams, including the Lake County Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.
Colleagues describe him as steady within the courtroom and methodical in preparation. He has combined public-service experience as a prosecutor with decades of private-practice work. That aggregate informs his approach to each trial work and pretrial strategy.
He continues to function the Law Office of Christopher M. Kennedy, P.C. in Illinois. His practice concentrates on legal proceedings and trial work in state and federal courts, which includes appellate matters when appropriate.
