About Dale
Dale Thomas constructed his legal foundation in Chicago classrooms and federal courtrooms. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in business and political science from North Park University and went directly to receive his Juris Doctor from The John Marshall Law School in 1986. The early sweep of his résumé mixes union governance, court work and time inside countrywide regulation enforcement.
While nevertheless early in his professional life, Thomas served as a district vice-president at the governing board of United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 881 in Oak Brook. That position came earlier than and along his legal research. In 1986 he held a spring externship with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union in Washington, D.C., and then took a federal clerkship. He was a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge William S. Sessions within the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division.
The clerkship led to a brief duration in Washington. In 1987 Thomas labored as a special assistant to William S. Sessions during Sessions’s tenure as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The pass put him within the federal justice system at an excessive administrative degree, exposing him to enforcement practices and countrywide safety things that formed his approach to public service.
By 1989 Thomas had returned to Illinois and joined the Peoria County State’s Lawyer’s Office as a criminal assistant state’s lawyer. In that prosecutorial role he treated critical felony matters on behalf of the state. The combination of clerkship experience, a federal task and county-level prosecution gave him practical point of view on how cases pass from research to formal charge and thru trial.
Thomas is licensed to practice in Illinois. Over the years he has moved between public roles and private practice while maintaining ties to legal and civic organizations. His trajectory is one which combines court process, authorities service and institutional knowledge from both union and federal environments.
Today he operates under the name Dale Thomas, Lawyer. He draws on in advance prosecutorial work and federal knowledge when advising clients and representing them in litigation. His recent practice focuses on legal matters arising in Illinois.
