Stephen M. Komie - Chicago, IL

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1976
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • National College of DUI Defense Harvard Summer Session, (2016 and 2017)
  • National College of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Public Defenders, (1977)
  • University of Arizona
    M.A.
  • University of Arizona
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Principal

Classes and Seminars

• Faculty: Illinois State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Seminars and local Bar sponsored programs
  
• Lecturer: Illinois State Bar Association CLE, American Bar Association (ABA), American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA), Chicago Bar Association (CBA), Decalogue Society, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Northwest Suburban Bar, West Suburban Bar
  
• Lecturer: The John Marshall Law School, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Law Societies of: Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England & Wales, International Bar Association, Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, DePaul University College of Law

Published Works

Articles

• The Magna Carta: 800 Years of the Rule of Law, Illinois Bar Journal, June 2015, Vol. 103, No. 6, Pg. 44
  
• Allegations of Child Abuse in Custody Disputes and Visitation Battles, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Family Law, 1998, 2008 & 2012
  
• ISBA Legislation Proposed to Protect Attorney/Client Relationship, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, March 12, 1987
  
• Little RICO Bill Should Not Be Passed, The Bar News, June, 1984
  
• Little RICO in Illinois, The Case Against It, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, April, 1984
  

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. Tax Court
• Supreme Court of Illinois

Other Affiliations

• Panel attorney, Federal Defender Program, Northern District of Illinois
• Illinois State Bar Association, Member, 1973 - Present
• Ambassador to Rededication of Magna Carta on 800th Anniversary, Illinois State Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association, Elected Secretary 1996 - 1997
• Illinois State Bar Association, Treasurer 1995 - 1996
• Illinois State Bar Association, Elected Board of Governors, 1992 - 2005, 2011 - Present
• Illinois State Bar Association, Elected Member of the Assembly, 1985 - 2019
• Illinois State Bar Association, Served as chairman of Committee on Credentials, and member of By-Laws Committee
• Illinois State Bar Association, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education, A.R.D.C. Committee, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Chairman, Criminal Justice Section, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Chairman, Committee on Professionalism, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Family Law Committee, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Mental Health Committee, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Corrections and Sentencing Committee, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Committee on Traffic Courts and the Law, Member
• Appearances on legislative issues for ISBA at the General Assembly and United States Congress
• Former member ISBA Young Lawyers Section, and participant in annual local Outreach Meetings sponsored by Young Lawyers Section
• Director, Illinois Bar Foundation and elected IBF Pillar of the Profession
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• DuPage County Bar Association, Justinian Society, Women's Bar Association of Illinois
• Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Liaison to ABA Criminal Justice Section
• Past Chairperson of Criminal Law, and Defense of Prisoners Committees of the CBA
• Member of the American Bar Association, 1976 - Present
• Elected Member of the ABA Criminal Justice Section Council, Served on the Defense Function Committee of the Criminal Justice Section, and as Chair of the Small Firm and Solo Practitioner Committee, 1993 - 1995
• Founding Member Illinois Attorneys for Criminal Justice: Served on the Board of Directors and as the Parliamentarian of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Member NACDL CFAA Reform White Collar Crime Subcommittee, 2014
• Founding Member of the National College of Drunk Driving Defense (N.C.D.D.)
• Member, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Legal Committee
• Member, Chicago Lincoln American Inn of Court
• International Bar Association (IBA) and Chairperson Family Law Section IBA, 2005 - 2007
• Delegate (NGO) for IBA Hague Convention on Abduction of Children
• Chairman, Task Force on Attorneys for Children, 1997 - 1999
• ABA Small Firm and Solo Practitioners and ISBA Judicial Compensation, Governance for the New Century, and Protection of the Public From the Unauthorized Practice of Law