About James J.
James J. DeSanto earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois in 1965 and a law degree from DePaul College of Law in 1969. Those academic years set the stage for an extended legal career that spans state and federal courts. He has been lively within the career for more than five decades since finishing his law degree.
Early in his career DeSanto secured admissions that allowed him to seem in a wide array of forums. He is licensed to practice in Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the United States highest court. Over the years he has treated matters before trial and appellate tribunals and maintained a court practice along different professional roles.
His professional home is DeSanto Morgan & Taylor Law Group. At the company he has mixed trial work with opportunity dispute decision. He is a Certified Arbitrator and Mediator for the 19th Judicial Circuit of Lake County, a credential that has knowledgeable each his private practice and his work resolving disputes outside of courtroom.
DeSanto has been a lively player in bar and litigator organizations. He holds recent memberships in the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, the Chicago Bar Association, Jefferson Inns of Court, the Illinois Bar Foundation, the Lake County Bar Association and the National Trial Lawyers Association. He has served as a director and chairman of the board of the Illinois State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Company and is a beyond president of the Lake County Bar Association. Those roles have involved governance, professional-coverage oversight and nearby bar management rather than public office.
Colleagues know him for steady participation in expert groups and for handling cases that pass thru trial and appeal. His certification as an arbitrator and mediator has led to regular appointments and personal alternative dispute resolution work. He combines courtroom experience with dispute-resolution practice and coffee service in bar governance.
He presently practices at DeSanto Morgan & Taylor Law Group, where he handles legal proceedings and serves as an arbitrator and mediator.
