About Marie
Marie Sarantakis earned her law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 2016 after starting her legal research in 2012. Her early legal education included classroom work and practical placements that formed her path into household and civil litigation.
She gained courtroom publicity as a judicial extern for Justice Thomas L. Kilbride at the highest court of Illinois in 2015. Earlier experiences consist of a judicial legal internship for Chief Judge Mary Wagner on the Kenosha County Courthouse in 2009 and internships on the Kenosha County District Lawyer’s Office in 2008 and the Kenosha County Public Defender’s Office in 2007. Those roles placed her in both prosecutorial and defense settings and gave her early touch with trial procedure and client advocacy.
Over the years Sarantakis has accrued a variety of professional trainings and certifications that reflect the work she handles. She finished Parenting Coordinator Training through the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and multiple Guardian advert Litem trainings through Kane County and DuPage County bar teams in addition to Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. She is a Certified Financial Litigator thru the American Academy of Certified Financial Litigators and has taken domestic relations trial advocacy and arbitrator training packages. Mediation, collaborative practice, and leadership coursework additionally appear on her resume.
Her association records is extensive and shows continuous involvement in bar governance and committee work. She serves as the Task Force Liaison to the ABA Young Lawyers Division Wellness Team and sits on the DuPage County Bar Association editorial board. She has held chair and vice-chair posts in numerous ABA Young Lawyers and Solo/Small Firm Division committees, taken leadership roles within the Illinois Lawyers Assistance Program, and is a fellow of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois. She joined the board of the DuPage County Bar Foundation and has maintained memberships in the Illinois Bar Foundation, West Suburban Bar Association and other nearby and national organizations.
Those experiences tell the types of matters she handles. Her background in guardian ad litem work, family regulation advocacy education, monetary litigation credentialing, and dispute decision education point to a tradition that blends courtroom representation, alternate dispute decision, and baby-focused assessments. She is licensed to practice in Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas.
Sarantakis now practices thru Sarantakis Law Group, Ltd., the place she manages matters that mirror her training in family law, financial elements of divorce, conservatorship work and opportunity dispute decision. Her recent practice focuses on family law and related financial legal proceedings.
