Dwayne Douglas - Bannockburn, IL

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1990
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Northern Illinois University, 1987
    B.A.
    Major: Psychology

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, Criminal Prosecutions and Order of Protection Proceedings: Possible Relationships to Family Law Proceedings, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2003
  
• Speaker, Sexually Violent and Dangerous Persons' Cases: A Nuts and Bolts Primer, Urbana, Illinois, 2006
  
• Speaker, Dispositive Motions in Family Law Cases, 2-619 Motion to Dismiss, Motion for Summary Judgment, Motion for Declaratory Judgment, Savannah, Georgia, 2006
  
• Speaker, When Can I Appeal a "Final" Judgment? Considerations for Family Law Practitioners, Santa Monica, California, 2007
  
• Speaker, Retainers for Attorney's Fees, To Whom Does Your Retainer Belong, Washington D.C., 2008
  
• Speaker, Guardianship and Custody Proceedings. Where do parents stand against third parties?, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2009
  
• Speaker, Wilson v. Clark, the principle and its development, Memphis, Tennessee, 2010
  
• Speaker, Parentage Act of 2015, Nashville, Tennessee, 2016
  
• Mock Trial Witness, Mock Trial Seminar, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2019
  
• An Appellate Primer: the ABCs of Appeals, Napa, California, 2024

Pro Bono Activities

• Campaign for Legal Services for Prairie State Legal Services, Former Co-Chair
• Township of Moraine, Ethics Commissioner, and former Trustee, Ethics Advisor, Member of the Grants Committee and Latino Advisory Committee, and liaison to the Human Rights Commission of the City of Highland Park

Published Works

Articles

• An Alternative to Prison Sentences for "Non-Probationable" Offenses: The Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 1994
  
• Changes to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 237 Have Arrived, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 2005
  
• An Introduction to the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 2005
  
• Dispositive Motions in Family Law Cases, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 2006
  
• When Can I Appeal a "Final" Judgment?, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 2007
  
• Judicial Subcircuits: What are they? Why have them? Where do we go from here?, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 2008
• Individual Retirement Account Withdrawals as "Income" for Child Support Purposes, Lake County Bar Association Docket, 2013

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1991

Other Affiliations

• Lake County Bar Association, Former Chair of the Family Law Committee
• Jefferson Inn of Court, Former President
• Illinois Bar Association, Member
• Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Arbitrator
• Lake County Bar Association, Board Member, 2019-2022