About Robert
Robert Shipley started his academic path in records earlier than turning to regulation. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1971 and earned a B.A. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973. He finished his J.D. at Northern Illinois University in 1978.
After law school he entered private practice and, by the early Nineteen Eighties, was operating as an associate at Baskin Server Berke & Weinstein. That position used to be an early step in a continuous development into leadership positions. Over the subsequent decade Shipley moved into firm management, taking over a collection of managing shareholder and managing lawyer roles that formed the relaxation of his profession.
In 1989 he have become a managing shareholder at Shipley & Wilner, Ltd. He led Shipley & Associates, Ltd. as managing lawyer beginning in 1994, and then Franklin & Shipley, Ltd. as managing shareholder in 1999. He spent part of the 2010s as a companion at Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., beginning in 2013. A year later he established Shipley Law Group Ltd., where he serves as managing partner.
Shipley has been a member of the Illinois State Bar since 1979. He is licensed to practice in Illinois, before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is a licensed mediator and serves as a panel arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He also sits at the panel for the Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program.
His expert memberships run across a range of nearby and countrywide organizations. He holds recent memberships within the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. He is indexed with the Defense Research Institute and the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel. He has served at the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Committee and the Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council, and he has been involved with the American Institute for Paralegal Studies as a faculty member in in advance years.
Colleagues and opposing counsel have encountered Shipley maximum often in controlled legal proceedings and alternative dispute resolution settings. He combines court admission throughout state and federal venues with ongoing work as a mediator and arbitrator. He now concentrates his practice on litigation management, mediations and arbitrations at Shipley Law Group Ltd.
