Experienced Attorney with a demonstrated history of working in the law practice industry. Strong legal professional skilled in Local Government, Development Law, Torts, Litigation Management, Personal Injury Litigation, Arbitration, and Trial Practice. Recognized by peers as a 2018/2019/2024 Leading Lawyer in Illinois.More...
Richard Sikes
Owner/Manager@Law Office of Richard T. Sikes, Jr.
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I have forty-four years of experience as a trial and appellate attorney. I started practice as an Assistant State's Attorney in Cook County, Illinois in the 1980's. From 1990 to last year, I worked in civil litigation representing railroads in casualty and commercial claims, defending civil rights claims and working on commercial and intellectual property cases. I have participated, mostly as first chair, in well over one hundred jury trials to verdict. I have done hundreds of depositions of every kind of fact or expert witness. My work included extensive appellate advocacy and other legal research and writing. I was an owner, partner or member of four Chicago law firms where, in addition to my trial and appellate work, I trained and mentored other attorneys. I have recently retired from the full-time practice of law and I am looking to do part-time project work involving motion practice, appellate briefing and other pre-trial work such as taking depositions or preparing pre-trial motions.More...